Enevhar Aldarion
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Let's see, they say 5E is "rulings not rules", so these official rulings by the guy in charge of making rulings carry more weight than in previous editions of the game. Also, so long as there is an official organized play element to the game, these rulings will be more important. They are also important in that they let us see potential changes/clarifications/errata/etc to future printings of the core books.
The part that annoys me is that this update to the Sage Advice pdf is the first one in, what, over a year now? Longer? All the rulings Crawford has been making in between updates have either been on Twitter or on the weekly twitch show that has the Sage Advice segment. I feel that the podcast episodes carry less weight than his tweets because I do not know if he is even taking time to think about what he answers there. With Twitter, he may at least be sitting there for a few minutes, thinking about the proper reply before typing.
Also, for official or not, or how official, it has been stated before by them that Crawford's answers override everyone else's at WotC when there is a conflict in answers, even with what Mearls might say.
The part that annoys me is that this update to the Sage Advice pdf is the first one in, what, over a year now? Longer? All the rulings Crawford has been making in between updates have either been on Twitter or on the weekly twitch show that has the Sage Advice segment. I feel that the podcast episodes carry less weight than his tweets because I do not know if he is even taking time to think about what he answers there. With Twitter, he may at least be sitting there for a few minutes, thinking about the proper reply before typing.
Also, for official or not, or how official, it has been stated before by them that Crawford's answers override everyone else's at WotC when there is a conflict in answers, even with what Mearls might say.