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I for one hope we don't get "clarification" on many things.
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<blockquote data-quote="Dausuul" data-source="post: 6370136" data-attributes="member: 58197"><p>There are two issues being confused here. One is the <em>scope</em> of the rules: How much of the game is codified versus being left to DM discretion? The other is <em>clarity</em> of the rules: How clear and easy to understand are they?</p><p></p><p>These are very different things. I like that 5E has limited the scope of the rules. Injecting a small amount of DM discretion can do wonders, with stealth being a good example*. But limiting scope should not come with sacrificing clarity. Take Empowered Evocation with <em>magic missile</em>. We shouldn't have to debate how that spell interacts with that ability. Spell damage is very much within scope, and DM discretion has no value to add here--it's just making the DM do extra work for no reason.</p><p></p><p>[size=-2]*Though stealth is also an example of lack of clarity, driven in this case by wretched choice of terminology. The use of "hidden" to mean "successfully stealthed" is monstrously confusing; it makes people think the Stealth check is about visual concealment when it's almost entirely about non-visual senses.[/size]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dausuul, post: 6370136, member: 58197"] There are two issues being confused here. One is the [I]scope[/I] of the rules: How much of the game is codified versus being left to DM discretion? The other is [I]clarity[/I] of the rules: How clear and easy to understand are they? These are very different things. I like that 5E has limited the scope of the rules. Injecting a small amount of DM discretion can do wonders, with stealth being a good example*. But limiting scope should not come with sacrificing clarity. Take Empowered Evocation with [I]magic missile[/I]. We shouldn't have to debate how that spell interacts with that ability. Spell damage is very much within scope, and DM discretion has no value to add here--it's just making the DM do extra work for no reason. [size=-2]*Though stealth is also an example of lack of clarity, driven in this case by wretched choice of terminology. The use of "hidden" to mean "successfully stealthed" is monstrously confusing; it makes people think the Stealth check is about visual concealment when it's almost entirely about non-visual senses.[/size] [/QUOTE]
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