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<blockquote data-quote="Salthorae" data-source="post: 7912457" data-attributes="member: 1095">Why does everyone always have to go to hyperbole? 5e is designed to give DM's much more freedom to rule things however they want for their game/table/interpretation. Crawford is the lead rule designer. He also offers advice for free on the webs on how to use/interpret those rules. No one is beholden to them, but they offer a good insight as to what the design team was thinking about on things when... you know... he designed them. The question is about casting verbal component spells underwater. There are no rules for it. Crawford says just that, there are no rules that prevent it. Ergo the assumption should be that it works as normal, otherwise they'd have put a rule in like they did with underwater combat. Because why shouldn't it work? It's magic. Then he points out that if you're talking, you're not holding your breath, i.e. ... common sense you start drowning because you just let a bunch of water into your mouth to get that spell off.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Salthorae, post: 7912457, member: 1095"] Why does everyone always have to go to hyperbole? 5e is designed to give DM's much more freedom to rule things however they want for their game/table/interpretation. Crawford is the lead rule designer. He also offers advice for free on the webs on how to use/interpret those rules. No one is beholden to them, but they offer a good insight as to what the design team was thinking about on things when... you know... he designed them. The question is about casting verbal component spells underwater. There are no rules for it. Crawford says just that, there are no rules that prevent it. Ergo the assumption should be that it works as normal, otherwise they'd have put a rule in like they did with underwater combat. Because why shouldn't it work? It's magic. Then he points out that if you're talking, you're not holding your breath, i.e. ... common sense you start drowning because you just let a bunch of water into your mouth to get that spell off. [/QUOTE]

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