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<blockquote data-quote="Marius Delphus" data-source="post: 4921134" data-attributes="member: 447">Well, I don't know who or what a &quot;Stormwind&quot; is, as I said earlier, so I'm just going to say I think your point got lost. The pie analogy didn't work for me at all, sorry.Common sense dictates that some character concepts just don't make effective (or &quot;maximally effective,&quot; or &quot;optimized,&quot; I guess) characters in some contexts. If &quot;Stormwind&quot; disagrees, well, that's just too bad. In cases where there's a bit of a tug-of-war between the character concept and the character sheet, I suppose that might be called a dilemma. But it's a bit overwrought for my taste.It's starting to dawn on me what you're ultimately getting at, I hope. Choosing to assign your character a Speed of 1 (let's further assume no ability to teleport) in D&amp;D 4E &quot;because the character concept demands it&quot; is just going to impair that character's effectiveness in combat, plain and simple. In a game where that's somehow unacceptable, well, strike one for concept; I'd rather game than hew scrupulously to some ideal notion of what my character's like. (I'll note that it could be a perfectly valid choice at some game tables.)In that situation, I'd immediately think that maybe a compromise could be reached: the character really has a Speed of 1 but wears a minor magic item (occupying the boots slot, can't be sold, etc.) that has to be tended to every night.Sorry if I've been difficult. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Marius Delphus, post: 4921134, member: 447"] Well, I don't know who or what a "Stormwind" is, as I said earlier, so I'm just going to say I think your point got lost. The pie analogy didn't work for me at all, sorry. Common sense dictates that some character concepts just don't make effective (or "maximally effective," or "optimized," I guess) characters in some contexts. If "Stormwind" disagrees, well, that's just too bad. In cases where there's a bit of a tug-of-war between the character concept and the character sheet, I suppose that might be called a dilemma. But it's a bit overwrought for my taste. It's starting to dawn on me what you're ultimately getting at, I hope. Choosing to assign your character a Speed of 1 (let's further assume no ability to teleport) in D&D 4E "because the character concept demands it" is just going to impair that character's effectiveness in combat, plain and simple. In a game where that's somehow unacceptable, well, strike one for concept; I'd rather game than hew scrupulously to some ideal notion of what my character's like. (I'll note that it could be a perfectly valid choice at some game tables.) In that situation, I'd immediately think that maybe a compromise could be reached: the character really has a Speed of 1 but wears a minor magic item (occupying the boots slot, can't be sold, etc.) that has to be tended to every night. Sorry if I've been difficult. :) [/QUOTE]

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