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Message: <blockquote data-quote="The Crimson Binome" data-source="post: 6577271" data-attributes="member: 6775031">Seriously, I have no idea what happened. The player declared which Power was being used, and nobody had any idea how to narrate it, so we just moved on with the game and I think I stopped using that Power since it left gaps in the narrative.At least with a sword, you know that you cut the enemy. You might have slashed or stabbed it, in any number of ways - you might have hit armor, or skin - but you definitely applied the sword directly to the goblin and then the goblin died. This Power didn't give you anywhere near that level of detail. The best we could figure out was that maybe I gave the goblin a funny look, before it keeled over.It's an issue of degree to the abstraction. There are an infinite number of ways that you can kill a goblin by attacking it with a sword, even if you don't have the freedom to narrate it as shooting lasers or causing the goblin to have a sudden heart-attack. At our table, getting hit by a weapon only meant that you got hit by the weapon, and you could still narrate the specifics as unique. Likewise, burning hands might require the same gestures with every cast, but the flames could catch the enemy directly in the chest or the face, or barely hit a limb as it quickly recoils.</blockquote>