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I've definitely run surprise 5e14 RAW, and I've house-ruled it on the fly, and I've basically said "ok you, the fighter, get advantage...

I would have thought the bolded was a non-negotiable fact of life. You declare it, you do it. No take-backs. Even more so in older...

When something can be done to move that needle without slowing things down, do it - even if it goes against RAW. And sometimes if...

I mean, there’s always a fix. RAW and/or homebrew RAW will make this situation be weird, so we do something else that makes sense.

There's a surprisingly short distance between the two bolded bits here, at least in my eyes. The very term"cinematic combat" brings to...

Like it or not, though, the rules to a large extent determine the types of decisions the PCs (and by extension, their players) are...

Thing is, you weren't just speaking about your own game play in the post to which I replied, you were speaking of modern gaming trends -...

These are both insulting and disingenuous comments. I am confident that you both know what he meant.

No matter what the form of fiction, that fiction forms the reality in which that fiction's characters live; and it's up to the game to...

Seems like a good idea in principle but in the D&D-sphere I can't offhand see any way of it not adding a whole bunch of new complexity...

No, it goes with the theme of the thread and how the rules do not make sense and trying to be too literal with them does not work for...

Why on earth would a group of PCs with any sense of self-preservation want to make a combat the least bit more challenging (i.e...

I prefer my ambushes to be "L" shaped and involving simultaneous grazing fire over the area. :p

In reality it would be pretty much impossible too. Exactly. This is a clear example of when the rules - in several ways - need to take...

So full-on Combat As Sport, then; done mostly as an opportunity for the PCs to strike dramatic poses? Sad.