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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Astrosicebear" data-source="post: 6409239" data-attributes="member: 67017">Lets be clear here, we arent talking about a DM giving a +2 bonus instead of a +1, or making a ruling about a vague spell.  We are talking about a DM who, upon seeing an ability of a core class in action, tried to kick that ability out of the game.This also isnt a situation where the DM and friends just picked up a book and sat down to play.  This is an online RPG community site with plenty of time and opportunity for clear and concise communication. The PDF and PHB has been out for months. Any self-respecting prospective DM would have a basic grasp of that material.  And if he was 'new', maybe he should have stuck to published adventures or core homebrew for the first game, instead of a module conversion from a previous edition.So the benefit of the doubt here, was that the DM was lazy.  The truth of the matter is more likely that he did not read the PHB at all (maybe he was only going off the PDF, I dont know) but ignorance of the material is still ignorance.  He handled the situation poorly.  Maybe he lied. Maybe he wanted to run a 2E Ravenloft game but put it under 5E to get players. Who knows?</blockquote>