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<blockquote data-quote="Oofta" data-source="post: 9050044" data-attributes="member: 6801845">There are exceptions to every rule.&nbsp; Punching a hole in the ship and the player not saying that they are using their sword of battle ship sinking is a 1 in a 1,000 case.&nbsp; But so what?&nbsp; Once every 10 games or so I may have to ask for clarification.&nbsp; It's not a big deal.I could also base my retirement plan on the possibility of winning the lottery.&nbsp; I don't base my DMing on &quot;Could theoretically happen&quot;.&nbsp; Because even if it did happen, the cost is so incredibly minimal.&nbsp; As DM I say &quot;No you can't do that&quot; and then they pull the rabbit out of their posterior, the players cheer, I groan (and secretly plot revenge <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> ) and the game moves on.Again ... we're talking about real world games, not hypotheticals.Then they should have stated that they are using magic. If it matters, I may remind them that this is Detroit which is known to have killer potholes if that's something their PC would know.&nbsp; But generally if they didn't state they were using their carpet I assume they walk unless they fly absolutely everywhere.&nbsp; There are some things where a player will tell me &quot;Assume I'm always doing [insert whatever]&quot;.&nbsp; If the PCs are in the dark, I'll ask what their light source is and in most cases after the first time we'll just come up with a blanket &quot;When the group is in the dark Samantha uses her light cantrip because she doesn't have dark vision.&quot;But unless you've had chickens riding flying carpets in a recent game, this still isn't a real-world game scenario.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Oofta, post: 9050044, member: 6801845"] There are exceptions to every rule. Punching a hole in the ship and the player not saying that they are using their sword of battle ship sinking is a 1 in a 1,000 case. But so what? Once every 10 games or so I may have to ask for clarification. It's not a big deal. I could also base my retirement plan on the possibility of winning the lottery. I don't base my DMing on "Could theoretically happen". Because even if it did happen, the cost is so incredibly minimal. As DM I say "No you can't do that" and then they pull the rabbit out of their posterior, the players cheer, I groan (and secretly plot revenge ;) ) and the game moves on. Again ... we're talking about real world games, not hypotheticals. Then they should have stated that they are using magic. If it matters, I may remind them that this is Detroit which is known to have killer potholes if that's something their PC would know. But generally if they didn't state they were using their carpet I assume they walk unless they fly absolutely everywhere. There are some things where a player will tell me "Assume I'm always doing [insert whatever]". If the PCs are in the dark, I'll ask what their light source is and in most cases after the first time we'll just come up with a blanket "When the group is in the dark Samantha uses her light cantrip because she doesn't have dark vision." But unless you've had chickens riding flying carpets in a recent game, this still isn't a real-world game scenario. [/QUOTE]

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