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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 5873989" data-attributes="member: 22779">Quote please.  Show me ANYWHERE, in any rule book where the rules presume an effort to avoid.  I can see where it talks about what happens if you deliberately try to avoid, but, nowhere can I see anything that actually supports what you claim.OTOH, I can point to every single edition of the game, many specifically, stating that I can look at a medusa and not turn to stone.  But, you can continue to bang this drum all you like.Ad hominem aside, who is playing by the rules, the specific rules, not a bizarre interpretation, not adding or taking anything away from what is written there, an abuse of the rules?  Again, why the ad hominem attacks?  Just because you were spanked rather resoundly by several people showing you exactly where you were wrong and how you were misinterpreting the rules for years, why take it out on me?Me personally?  If the player stated he was cutting off his own eyelids to stare down the medusa, I would play D&D.  Which means that he would make the applicable saving throw, or suffer the applicable attack (depending on edition) and we'd move on from there.Why?Because I play D&D.  It's not like I really need to make house rules here.  I mean, the mechanics for a medusa haven't significantly changed in 40 years of D&D - other than maybe which saving throw, or a bit of a percentages shift.  Every single medusa in D&D has worked exactly, almost with the same language used, the same.Heh, 5e is to be the unification edition.  Here's one monster that can go into 5e almost unchanged since throughout it's entire history, it hasn't really changed at all.  At least, not in D&D.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>

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