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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nemesis Destiny" data-source="post: 5757390" data-attributes="member: 98255">Except it is still a ball of fire, regardless of what a player decides it looks like, and as I pointed out, the player can argue that it affects creatures only all day long, but that's not a player decision to make - it's the DMs. Just like it always has been.Except it's nothing like a bag of rats. A player can try to describe things any way they like, but the effect is still a burst 3 Arcane Fire attack, so if the DM wants to rule it catches things on fire, they can. If the social contract at that particular table is such that a description of the effect can change how the DM parses the effect in game, fine, but that is veering into houserule territory.The reason the flavour text is malleable is to reinforce the fiction, not try to destroy it. If you're determined to make it sound silly, then the same can be done of any of our games of choice. We sit around pretending to be elves and wizards. Except that it doesn't work this way at all. You toss a fireball, you have to deal with the consequences. Nothing has changed.So, players at the mercy of the DM - juuuuuust like every other edition of the game.And 'say yes' doesn't guarantee that things will work in a player's favour. This has also been discussed to death.</blockquote>