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<blockquote data-quote="HRSegovia" data-source="post: 5648245" data-attributes="member: 99950"><p>I can completely respect that, and I completely concur that neither you nor I are attempting to reach the "my way is better than yours" conclusion.</p><p></p><p>However, does it not seem to you that some of the rules such as the feats that "skin" magic should be ignored? It certainly seems to me a waste of a feat just to TELL me how to imagine something. It's not like the mechanics are changing in any way when reskinning your magic. I'm sure the feats that theme also change mechanics, but I'm discussing, in this thread, only changing the way something looks to suit the player's self image and self concept of his character.</p><p></p><p>Take Big Eyes, Small Mouth, for example. Special Attack is a basic, ranged, energy attack that does 15pts of damage (fireball, blast, laser, whatever). There are ways of modifying how the attack behaves and its damage, but it is still up to the player to decide what the attack actually looks like.</p><p></p><p>Now let's apply that to Magic Missile.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Nothing in it actually describes the missile. Once upon a time, the rules DID describe it as a golden arrow that floated by the caster until fired. And even if it did, I don't see how the game would be affected other than the player's self image. It may even be interesting for a player to be recognized by how he "colors" his spells:</p><p></p><p>"I only know of one mage who colors his magic missiles as angry birds. Lothar, is that you my old friend?"</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="HRSegovia, post: 5648245, member: 99950"] I can completely respect that, and I completely concur that neither you nor I are attempting to reach the "my way is better than yours" conclusion. However, does it not seem to you that some of the rules such as the feats that "skin" magic should be ignored? It certainly seems to me a waste of a feat just to TELL me how to imagine something. It's not like the mechanics are changing in any way when reskinning your magic. I'm sure the feats that theme also change mechanics, but I'm discussing, in this thread, only changing the way something looks to suit the player's self image and self concept of his character. Take Big Eyes, Small Mouth, for example. Special Attack is a basic, ranged, energy attack that does 15pts of damage (fireball, blast, laser, whatever). There are ways of modifying how the attack behaves and its damage, but it is still up to the player to decide what the attack actually looks like. Now let's apply that to Magic Missile. Nothing in it actually describes the missile. Once upon a time, the rules DID describe it as a golden arrow that floated by the caster until fired. And even if it did, I don't see how the game would be affected other than the player's self image. It may even be interesting for a player to be recognized by how he "colors" his spells: "I only know of one mage who colors his magic missiles as angry birds. Lothar, is that you my old friend?" [/QUOTE]
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