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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Breaks" data-source="post: 5872921" data-attributes="member: 6678259">This thread is about a player entirely new to the system. It is a hugely more likely scenario that his DM would largely prefer that he follow the rules most of the time, rather than endlessly request DM fiat, though yes, every DM has a different preference for such things.It seems ludicrous to me to suggest to a new player that he depend on his DM rather than his character sheet, without ever hearing any indication that that's how his DM plays. Most DMs play, largely, by the rules.  The rules offer a lot of flexibility in a lot of places, and good DMs place interactive terrain on encounters for creative players to utilize. But most DM's don't let you say, "I impale the kobold with my spear, immobilizing him," unless you are using a pinning or hungry spear. I am not telling him to not be creative, creativity is awesome.It's entirely possible I've just had strangely canonical experiences with DMs, and many of them are more flexible. But I play in seven ongoing campaigns with five different DMs, play LFR modules at least once a week with different DMs, and play in many one-shots on the virtual table. And far, far more DMs would be annoyed or suspect someone trying to cheat or min/max if they tried to add additional mechanics to an attack than would be thrilled someone was being creative. So, OP, have a conversation with the DM about this sort of ad-libing before jumping into it. He knows you're new, so it's not likely to offend him, but you shouldn't expect him to say yes.I am very happy to agree to disagree with you, but one of the best things about 4e is how specific and clear the combat rules are, as opposed to previous editions where almost everything was left up to, "DM may I?," to some degree or another. If you prefer that system, I have no idea why you are playing 4e.</blockquote>

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