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If you follow the rulebook over the rule of cool, you're doing it wrong.
rule of cool to me means you bend the rules to make the players feel badass, it usually doesn't mean you disregard the rules completely and do whatever you want. At that point just run a systemless narrative storytelling game.
As for polymorph turning someone into an object, there is a spell that does exactly that: true polymorph.
I am by no means a rules absolutist, some of the best moments I've had in games were certainly not RAW, but from experience it feels really shitty to allow individual players to do things that their abilities specifically don't allow, because often that overshadows other players that either specialized into some abilities that are now obsolete, or might've had creative alternative approaches to the problem
Isn't that what dnd is?
edit: I mean it is a game with a system, which itself allows parts of the system to be bypassed to pave way for the storytelling, which is the point of the game ,no?
Well...how about the whole quote?
Emphasis by me...
Or at any rate, a system more open to this kind of thing. GURPS or OpenD6 are much more narrative and rules light.