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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Berandor" data-source="post: 2043273" data-attributes="member: 225">Of course. See alsih2o's money, movement and similar threads. Making up rules is simple. You want the ability to fly? Buy a feat tree. Let's say, four feats.1 - you need solid ground under your feet, but you don't weigh anything. Leave no tracks (-10 to track you), don't open trapdoors.2- you hover a few inches above ground and can now walk on water and similar substances.3- you have the ability to levitate, as the spell, up and down4- you can fly at your speed, average maneuverability.Prereq.:1- Dex 13, Int 13, Jump 5 ranks, Balance 5 ranks2- Feat 1, Dex 15, Jump/Balance 8 ranks3- Feat 2, Int 15, Jump/Balance 13 ranks4- Feat 3, Dex/Int 17, Jump/Balance 18 ranks.Done.Making up rules is easy. You just make up a mechanical way of doing things. YOu don't have to look at background, cohesiveness, or anything else.Also, see my above edit re: newcomers.NOTE: The following is based on my rant, not on anything Darkness said or wrote, even though I am replying to his replyFinally, the argument "I can do story myself" is one that is brought up often in this kind of discussions. And if the fact that you can do it yourself doesn't inhibit your need for story-based books, why bring it up? You'd still like to see story books, but you don't need to, because you can do it yourself.Another thing to consider: Just because I can do story myself, why shouldn't I want to take a look at what stories other people are doing? I read story hours to see how other DMs use story in their games. Why not see what people at WotC (for example) can do? They sure have a bigger budget and more people to get their stories done than I have. How am I to tell whether my stories suck, if I can't compare them to something?I can do a movie, too. But it will probably, surely suck, which I know because I've seen it done better elsewhere. I'd even say I'd make for a decent hobby actor, but seeing people who know what they're doing tells me I wouldn't be a good actor, period. But even if I would - why would I stop going to the movies, or the theatre. Just because I can act, would that mean I didn't want to see anyone else act anymore?Darkness, just to be clear - I am tackling your argument, not your position on the topic. Though you're not one of them, I've seen people hide behind that argument several times so far, and I want to argue against it for once. Friends? <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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