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That's not really a ruling, that's exactly what it says in the players handbook. I'm simply pointing out the thing you forgot, which you asked for.

I agree with you, and Elephants are fast being considered one of the more intelligent species on the planet. However, arguing over something like an arbitrary number giving an abstraction of intelligence based on a scale from 0-30 isn't going to get us anywhere. There is nowhere in the rules...

"Physical interaction with the image reveals it to be an illusion" "If a creature discerns the illusion for what it is, the illusion becomes faint to the creature." You get 1 attack of disadvantage against you, better make it count.

I'm really confused about... well pretty much all of this. They've all but done away with ability scores for ability modifiers? What does that mean?

They've given an Elephant an intelligence 3, and it has been known to throw things at people. This game as a whole has been designed to allow for things that the creators didn't think of. Do you really need every single tiny detail to be spelled out in order to run the game? Besides, throwing a...

Disregarding that the writer Mike Mearls has stated that a tarrasque can throw a rock with as much efficiency as a giant (see above) it doesn't take much to see that a Tarrasque is much, much different from a cat. Do I really have to explain articulated digits (which the Tarrasque has) and pads...

Those are some pretty major assumptions, especially considering how rare magic items are in 5E. There's no telling if magical arrows even exist, let alone a 11th level person getting 150+ of them. This archer also has to save against its frightful presence, outrun it (it has a 40ft speed and can...

This seems like another thread entirely. Probably a good idea to just start a new one rather than resurrect this old one.

No, it doesn't use spell slots, it just uses the spell slot level of the person who put the spell into the ring. You get to use the spell regardless.

First off, it's a game conceit. It is put in there for balance because it's a game and is intended for such. There are a million little things in D&D that are like that, so this seems like an odd one to single out. Second, just because you don't agree with those that are defending the rule...

"Requires attunement outdoors at night" Ok, just the fact that they have those kinds of stipulations makes me immensely excited. What about a weapon that you can only attune by say.... killing a specific enemy? Attuning by being in a volcano? Attuning by having a white dragon breathe on it...

Oh I understand that. But this thread is about "silly/senseless rules" and this is definitely one of them.

That's not what I'm saying. What I'm complaining about is that, in RAW, no matter how many effects of disadvantage you have, only one effect of advantage cancels it out. A massively debilitated person fights just as effectively as a normal person simply because someone uses the "help" action for...

I totally agree with this. A person could be horribly disadvantaged, with numerous sources of disadvantage, and one source of advantage can negate it. A target could be blinded, frightened, have 3 levels of exhaustion, fighting an invisible attacker, poisoned, and restrained and yet having a...

I'm pretty sure the point of Cantrips is whatever the developer of the game wants them to be. And in this case a cantrip is a spell where "Repeated practice has fixed the spell in the caster's mind and infused the caster with the magic needed to produce the effect over and over (PH 201)".

Because Light and Medium armor isn't all-covering and still requires an amount of dodging to be effective?

yes, because then they wouldn't have any point. Fortunately they don't overlap.

There shouldn't be any overlap with skills and tools. The only one I can think of is Perform, in which no, it wouldn't stack, because you're just using one thing either the instrument or your singing/acting/etc. So no, there is no use to have multiple proficiencies because there are no...

We'll simply have to agree to disagree on this one, which I'm totally fine with. It's funny though that you would say that about the newer players having a harder time. I've actually found that the newer players read through the whole book and have an easy time grasping that, while the players I...

Except that isn't how it works. Instead of tools with two arbitrary tools filled out, you have a flat "proficiencies" where everything that doesn't fit with skills and requires a particular object to use is put. For instance, a rogue might have light armor, simple weapons (along with daggers...