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No, we all understand that the character didn't cause that. In fact, that is the cornerstone of the whole objection! That the player caused something the character didn't!

@pemerton are you seriously claiming that the player decision of what their character hopes is not affected by the knowledge that the mechanics has the power to make that hope come true? Are you claiming that decision of who examines the runes first etc is not affected by the player knowledge...

No mate. A player has an ability to shape the fictional reality in a significant way that the character doesn't. These are different decision spaces. This is just a fact. You stringing here big words together in attempt to argue that red is blue. The player has knowledge, that the action...

In a colossally stupid way. If anything, a retcon would be less stupid. "We are called Purple Dragon Knights for unrelated reasons, but then start to ride purple dragons so that the name fits," is painfully stupid in a way "We are called Purple Dragon Knights because we ride purple dragons,"...

I mean I don't really care, beyond making me doubt the competence of the writers even more than I already did. I was not going to touch the FR with an eleven feet pole regardless.

I mean knights originally named Purple Dragon Knights because they killed a purple dragon starting to ride purple dragons is objectively stupid even by Forgotten Realms standards. It sounds exactly like a writer got confused about why they were called that.

If there was some "dragon warrior" subclass that was about befriending a dragon, then don't make it about one specific type of dragon, that is bizarrely narrow. The subclass can have some minor customisation within itself, so that it can represent alliance with the dragon type of the player's...

I assume this is some sort of sarcasm, but I do not know or care about the old or new FR lore enough to quite understand it... :unsure:

Hatshepsut, Cleopatra VII, Sobekneferu? There are more; Egypt had several female rulers. There were many female pharaohs and regents some were co-rules, whilst some ruled on their own right.

Yeah, agreed. But my point is that you cannot really get fully rid of adjudication thus the rules cannot ever be "complete" in manner you described earlier.

But it still requires some adjudication. What objects qualify as improvised weapons? And if all improvised weapons do not have same rules, (I for example might expect a frozen herring and a heavy shovel to have somewhat different rules) someone has to decide which rules each object gets. Same...

I just don't want to be telling to the players that their characters cannot try to cut a rope with a frozen herring just because the rules do not cover it!

Which makes "Purple Dragon Knight" a bad name. But that the subclass is a relatively generic knight-commander instead of some super specific and gimmicky thing is absolutely great in my book. Subclasses should be archetypes that represent several character concepts and fit to most settings.

But what this has to do with me or 5e spell rules?

So I am not quite sure we understand "incomplete" in the same way. I think it is a salient feature of RPGs that you can try to do anything that you can imagine the fictional person you're portraying to try. I do not think we can have complete rules that do not require any adjudication (and thus...

Disagree with me on what? What you think my opinion on D&D spell rules is?

Yes, this happens. This on the other hand doesn't. To do this fully is impossible in any RPG, and not even desirable. However, one certainly could (and I'd argue should) have far more structure than 5e does. I think 5e would benefit from having far more detailed skill rules. But I do not...

Yeah, this is my experience as well, there is not much of it going on in my D&D game. On the other hand in the Blades in the Dark game I play in, negotiation is almost constant. Part of it of course might be due different approaches of different GMs, but I doubt it is just that.

Nope. The fact that a lot of players are clueless about the written rules as well doesn't mean those are subjective either.

What? What is? Whether player and chracter decision space is correraled? No. Whether one likes it? Of course! How games are played is often informed by unwritten rules, yes. But this doesn't make it subjective.