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My thought is more that the drift in reference frame can cause a disconnect at the table. As @Micah Sweet says, 5e24 doesn't tell us...

I think you do, especially because these species no longer appear in the MM. Where is general information about them supposed to go if...

Agreed

I have been uncomfortable how D&D has portrayed some species for decades. Literally having evil versions of species you can recognise by...

If I draw the implications correctly, then I think you are right in saying we should be critical of treating everything not ruled out by...

And, frankly, again, there's a million ways to bias an encounter. Just off the top of my head: Do monsters "focus fire" - each...

Cool. Then you can buy your character a horse and roleplay that it is a dragon.

I think people need to accept outside of epic level games a dragon alongside a character will never fit the power level. You will only...

But an encounter can be unfair to the players, due to bad design. Me changing it on the fly could make it fair to the players.

There are too many problematic implications around what may properly count as a rule or a game, for me to engage with the "by its very...

Yes, in fact if the books declare you can do it, it does mean that it isn't cheating. The players have access to the books. They have...

This example does not match what I described. If a poker tournament's rules expressly state that telepathy is allowed, it can hardly be...

I do have to point out you can think its ethically OK but think there's a loss of something in the illusion of the game if its visible...

Yeah, in the same way as if I have a +1 weapon, I'm more powerful than the rest of my party if the rest of my party doesn't have it. Of...

A PC dwarf is not treated as a different order of being as a dwarf NPC in setting, so neither should IMO have capabilities the other...