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<blockquote data-quote="James Gasik" data-source="post: 8615387" data-attributes="member: 6877472">Even so, it bothers me when he does this, because I used to be a DM for AL, and the event organizer at the Friendly Local Game Store would strongly urge us to follow not only the rules in the books, but whatever guidance given by Sage Advice and developer tweets.&nbsp; This led to a lot of &quot;well the book doesn't say one way or the other, so I'll rule X way&quot; moments, where suddenly players or other DM's would come up to me and say &quot;well actually, here's this tweet that says Y&quot;.And to say &quot;this works&quot; in 2016 and then to say &quot;but it doesn't have to work that way&quot; in 2018 seems ridiculous.&nbsp; DM's don't need empowerment, that's what their ability to make rulings (and house rules) is for.&nbsp; If someone asks you a question, because they're not sure what the intended rule is, saying &quot;Well it's this. Maybe&quot; isn't very helpful.Especially if someone is to ask you a question online about how something works and you're like &quot;oh, I know the answer, it's this!&quot;, and then someone is like &quot;well, actually, not it's not&quot; and we're both going from the same source.So I guess the answer for whether or not to multiclass Warlock comes down to &quot;what does your DM say, we're all just idiots on the internet&quot;.<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f644.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":rolleyes:" title="Roll eyes&nbsp; &nbsp; :rolleyes:"&nbsp; data-smilie="11"data-shortname=":rolleyes:" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="James Gasik, post: 8615387, member: 6877472"] Even so, it bothers me when he does this, because I used to be a DM for AL, and the event organizer at the Friendly Local Game Store would strongly urge us to follow not only the rules in the books, but whatever guidance given by Sage Advice and developer tweets. This led to a lot of "well the book doesn't say one way or the other, so I'll rule X way" moments, where suddenly players or other DM's would come up to me and say "well actually, here's this tweet that says Y". And to say "this works" in 2016 and then to say "but it doesn't have to work that way" in 2018 seems ridiculous. DM's don't need empowerment, that's what their ability to make rulings (and house rules) is for. If someone asks you a question, because they're not sure what the intended rule is, saying "Well it's this. Maybe" isn't very helpful. Especially if someone is to ask you a question online about how something works and you're like "oh, I know the answer, it's this!", and then someone is like "well, actually, not it's not" and we're both going from the same source. So I guess the answer for whether or not to multiclass Warlock comes down to "what does your DM say, we're all just idiots on the internet". :rolleyes: [/QUOTE]

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