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Message: <blockquote data-quote="tomBitonti" data-source="post: 5092367" data-attributes="member: 13107">Off TrackHi,This discussion seems to be somewhat off-track.In the presentation of the 4E rule set, the flavor text is almost entirely irrelevant.  A power description has a ruled effect, and the flavor text is merely one suggestion as to how the power can be described.Many many postings have suggested that players are free to make their description of a power or ability.  That will leave the power effect unchanged.That is, if a player wants to describe the power as producing a "shimmering field of entropic energy leached from the target", or as "an echo of the fundamental imprint of the target from the one true reality, a sharpening of their shadow, so to speak", they are free to do so.  None of it has any impact on what the power does.I think if one has a problem with how the power effect was handled, then you have to look to the fundamentals of the 4E design and how that separates power description from power effect.That does work against the idea of enhancing a power effect using an action point, but if the descriptions are merely suggestions, that doesn't seem to work very well, since the descriptions are too fluid to be reliably amplified.Edit: I think that if amplified effects are allowed, the end result must be couched in terms of the original effect.  If an effect provides a +2 bonus to attackers, then the amplified effect might be a +4 bonus.  The player is free to fluff this as they prefer, according to the selected description, but the amplified effect is applied to the original effect, not to the power description.Thx!Tom Bitonti</blockquote>

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