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<blockquote data-quote="Jon Gilliam" data-source="post: 8039095" data-attributes="member: 6920404">Nope, you're just not right - I've done no such thing.&nbsp; What you're doing instead is trying to justify your house rules as being RAW when they're not, and refusing to acknowledge official sources of where the designers of the game clarify what the intention of the words they wrote in the rulebooks were.If you're playing under Rules as Written, it's the rules themselves that make it clear when the DM decides something and when they don't.&nbsp; For example, they make it clear that the DM decides the circumstances appropriate for hiding, and they intentionally do not provide a mechanic to determine that.&nbsp; Jeremy Crawford even talks about how 4e provided such a mechanic, and they decided against doing something like that for 5e because it was too complex.With surprise, they make it clear that the DM only determines not decides who might be surprised, and they specify a mechanic to do just that.You're also trying to imply that a DM can't decide to do something different than the Rules as Written, and that it's therefore draconian to decide what the rules say and that the designers intended a particular interpretation.&nbsp; And that's just not true - if you don't like what the designers intended, you can house rule whatever you want.&nbsp; But, you shouldn't pretend you're running the rules as written.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Jon Gilliam, post: 8039095, member: 6920404"] Nope, you're just not right - I've done no such thing. What you're doing instead is trying to justify your house rules as being RAW when they're not, and refusing to acknowledge official sources of where the designers of the game clarify what the intention of the words they wrote in the rulebooks were. If you're playing under Rules as Written, it's the rules themselves that make it clear when the DM decides something and when they don't. For example, they make it clear that the DM decides the circumstances appropriate for hiding, and they intentionally do not provide a mechanic to determine that. Jeremy Crawford even talks about how 4e provided such a mechanic, and they decided against doing something like that for 5e because it was too complex. With surprise, they make it clear that the DM only [B][I]determines [/I][/B]not [B][I]decides[/I][/B] who might be surprised, and they specify a mechanic to do just that. You're also trying to imply that a DM can't decide to do something different than the Rules as Written, and that it's therefore draconian to decide what the rules say and that the designers intended a particular interpretation. And that's just not true - if you don't like what the designers intended, you can house rule whatever you want. But, you shouldn't pretend you're running the rules as written. [/QUOTE]

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