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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Aenghus" data-source="post: 6330366" data-attributes="member: 2656">I hate ambiguous rules, especially when a small change in wording could obviously resolve the situation for most people. It's that my tolerance of ambiguity is low, and I hate the debates that ambiguous rules lead to. Decisions take energy, and I feel the decisions that ambiguous rules force on the referee are all wasted energy that could be better used to run a good game.There are a bunch of reasons for unnecessarily ambiguous rules. Amongst them are:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Deadlines</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Disinterest</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">lack of inspiration</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">mistakes</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">editing issues</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">disagreements amongst the designers</li> </ul>The editions wars have shown me another reason - to duck controversy as the lesser evil. When there are multiple camps supporting various interpretations of a particular issue, and siding with any of them will immediately draw the ire of all the other camps, it can be easier to just not choose and let the players sort it out themselves.I've already accepted that 5e and "rulings not rules" isn't for me.</blockquote>