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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Garthanos" data-source="post: 7517517" data-attributes="member: 82504">Just say no was the order of the day for 9th level side kick martial types in 1e land.DMs without guidance are not bad DMs they are just poor at estimating game balance on the fly and allowing martials to do awesome improv is exactly about that.I want my Cu Chulainn doing a flying back flip trick called the Salmon Leap AND not begging the DM for the privilege of saying something other than "I hit it with my sword". The system which never mentions the possibility is basically advising NO to a lot more DMs than it is saying yes to. There may be systems that manage to encourage such things and can evoke the balance without explicitly enumerating.... but looking at the list of Polearm names from old D&D I do not think this has ever been that game.</blockquote>