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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nemesis Destiny" data-source="post: 5757275" data-attributes="member: 98255">I think you're misreading the intent - it's not so much that 'flavour doesn't matter' as it is 'flavour is malleable - make it what you want/what works.'I think, if I read him right (and if so, I feel this way too), you aren't, and shouldn't, be restricted to describing your powers with the flavour text provided - you can change it to whatever you want - but preferably something that matches, supports, or reinforces the fiction of the game world and its events.Maybe your magic missile looks like a butterfly farting rainbows, but it is still an Arcane attack that does Force damage as an effect.As an example of something I've used - I had a feylock cast Witchfire that reduced an enemy to 0hp, but wanted to take the opponent alive, so to flavour it in such a way that it would be easier to swallow than getting knocked unconscious by a fireball, I described it as my character conjuring a swarm of pixies from the feywild brandishing flaming torches, who then used those torches to beat my foe unconscious. Still an Arcane attack that does Fire damage. The spell technically isn't a conjuration, but for the purposes of interacting with the rules, and the world, at that moment, it didn't matter.</blockquote>