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(He, Him)
You might have missed the chain of posts that I was responding to. Some of their claims might have amounted to saying one could reskin freely. I was testing that proposition with this thought-experiment. If one is unwilling to accept it, then it can easily be narrowed to some subset of spells. Let's say no revival spells (no raise dead etc). Can they be brought back into the campaign by reskinning them?Here's my simple question: WTF are you doing using (non-4e) D&D for a no-casters campaign. About 40% of every single non-4e PHB is spells. About two thirds of classes are casters.
My general claim is that while the fluff-to-crunch relation is flexible, it is not fungible. That is because when game designers craft mechanics, at times they aim to capture something quite specific in their dynamics. It's not just totally arbitrary.
Evidence? For instance, I think the EarthSea setting would be weakened if the author had been made to throw in the kitchen-sink of fantasy and sci-fi races (for the sake of the example, all of them).You don't get a stronger setting by excluding things - you get one by picking things to focus on.