Questions tagged [flavor]
For questions about "flavor", the language, descriptions and details that a referee or game master uses to communicate the setting and sensory information that player characters experience.
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How can Flameskulls cast fireball without fingers?
This thread points out that although DMs can (and probably should) interpret rules to cover certain cases themselves, nothing within spellcasting rules or spells written at the time clearly states ...
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What explicit player-side rules exist for reflavoring races/classes?
Wizards' spellbooks and artificer "magic" are explicitly called out as being reflavorable--that is, as long as everything has the same numbers, a "spellbook" doesn't need to be a ...
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How can I communicate feelings to players without impacting their agency?
As a Game Master I'd occasionally like to communicate premonitions or sensation to my characters, as a benefit of their backstory, or as a means to give them opportunity to be deeper tied into the ...
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Up to which point does narrative/roleplaying affect mechanics?
I want to share something that happened a few weeks ago, which I am still wondering about.
There were two events:
In the first time, in a dungeon, we found several imp-like creatures on a room with ...
