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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Crazy Jerome" data-source="post: 5620722" data-attributes="member: 54877">Does it help, for anyone bothered by this, if the associations are made earlier and/or are locked in once made?   That is, if your rapier-wielding fighter flavors the brutal strike that way, then that is the way it stays.  Perhaps you even flavored it that way before it first came up.  Another fighter, might flavor it a different way, but whatever he picks, stays the same for him.  Presumably, if this matters to you on this level, then your guy can't just pick up, say, a great axe, and use the power.  You can probably still use it for a spear or other thrusting polearm, or any thrusting sword or dagger.   So, given the plethora of houserules objection ... (I'm not sure flavoring effects should count as "houserules," but whatever it is, it is something to keep track of) ... assume the written rules include a variant of this flavor as the default.  You can then reskin this with different flavor if you want (and this is made explicit).   How is that different than, say, reskinning 3E magic missile as purple darts that you unerringly throw, but keeping the mechanics?</blockquote>