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Message: <blockquote data-quote="KarinsDad" data-source="post: 4802985" data-attributes="member: 2011">What happens when the player writes down:1) A burst of fire comes out of his fingers2) Heat from the sky scorches his foes3) His heat vision toasts his enemiesand spams these encounter after encounter?There is a reason flavor text is segregated from game mechanics. Mixing the two can lead to hard feelings. The player who thinks he is doing it correctly "according to the new rules" gets slammed by the DM for being unoriginal. If the DM doesn't slam him, all the DM did is add to the frequency of certain powers for all players.The DM might as well just do that up front and not paint it with the "flavor text" brush in that case. What good is flavor text if it is going to be the same flavor text over and over again? How does that add to the creativity?In general, it's a bad idea to force players to be creative and it is an even worse idea to force players to be creative by linking their creativity to game mechanics. Campaigns have ended over stuff like this.If you want the rule in the game system, just add:"their character may expend a different power of that level or higher of that type to instead use a previously expended power"and be done with it.If you want more creativity and flavor text, add more as a DM and some of the players will follow suit. Others might not. Live with it. Don't try to force it.</blockquote>