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<blockquote data-quote="Man in the Funny Hat" data-source="post: 9357709" data-attributes="member: 32740">Well, it's funny because as I said SA wasn't always reliable as they wanted to be.&nbsp; Not trying to make that big of a thing of it, but SA really should only be taken for what the name says it is - advice.&nbsp; Despite it having the stamp of being &quot;official&quot; answers to rules questions they were sometimes themselves just as wrong as the original rule books could be, or came up with less-than-stellar solutions easily improved upon by a DM for their own game.&nbsp; I've always enjoyed pointing out that Gygax himself admitted in the DMG that he couldn't think of everything and his rules weren't so perfect that they couldn't be improved upon.&nbsp; Same applies to Sage Advice.&nbsp; They didn't always see clearly or come up with the best answers, especially when those answers were being used as ammunition to argue against how DM's chose to rule in their own games BEFORE seeing what Sage Advice had to say about it.SA was a useful tool for everyone - but DM's still run the game, not SA.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Man in the Funny Hat, post: 9357709, member: 32740"] Well, it's funny because as I said SA [I]wasn't[/I] always reliable as they wanted to be. Not trying to make that big of a thing of it, but SA really should only be taken for what the name says it is - [I]advice[/I]. Despite it having the stamp of being "official" answers to rules questions they were [I]sometimes[/I] themselves just as wrong as the original rule books could be, or came up with less-than-stellar solutions easily improved upon by a DM for their own game. I've always enjoyed pointing out that Gygax himself admitted in the DMG that he couldn't think of everything and his rules weren't so perfect that they couldn't be improved upon. Same applies to Sage Advice. They didn't always see clearly or come up with the best answers, especially when those answers were being used as ammunition to argue against how DM's chose to rule in their own games BEFORE seeing what Sage Advice had to say about it. SA was a useful tool for everyone - but [I]DM's[/I] still run the game, not SA. [/QUOTE]

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