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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Fenris-77" data-source="post: 7927261" data-attributes="member: 6993955">Abilities have names right? And they're rules. Changing the names might be confusing, and it sounds like an enormous amount of work for the player. I'm guessing this isn't a serious example, but if a player of mine really wanted to I'd consider it, sure. Changing the names of rules isn't the same as changing descriptive fluff though, so there's a part of this example that's very apples and oranges. Renaming every spell on the cleric list really isn't same thing as ignoring four lines of Barbarian fluff in a whole bunch of ways.The oath is the subclass, you can't play without one. If you mean the description of the oath then no, I don't really care as long as the player has a cool alternative. And no, it doesn't make more sense to change a bunch of rules. There are no rules of 'who the character is' by the way, just what they can do. The player decides who the character is.There are countless examples you can make that are very different either in scale or in kind? I bet there are. Not a single example in your post was a reasonable comparison to the Barbarian fluff though. In fact, all of them were about rules, not fluff. So there's that. When it comes to where to draw the line, everyone is different. Personally, I don't care about fluff, it's not a rule so it won't affect game balance and it's important that a player end up with a character they are excited to play. I mostly avoid changing rules without serious consideration and maybe some play testing. I treat rules and fluff differently because they aren't the same thing.I think you'll find that upon consideration my approach is actually very lenient, rather than hard core. I want players to have as much freedom as possible to build a character they are excited about. Getting bent out of shape about changing color text, on the other hand, sounds pretty hard core to me.<img class="smilie smilie--emoji" alt="🤷‍♂️" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f937-2642.png" title="Man shrugging    :man_shrugging:" data-shortname=":man_shrugging:" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" /></blockquote>

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