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Message: <blockquote data-quote="GoodKingJayIII" data-source="post: 3820660" data-attributes="member: 13804">This seems to be a discussion of another sort, touching not just on save-or-die effects but all rules from previous editions that might or might not be omitted.  Which is why I didn't really address it in my first post, but since the thread is oriented in that direction, why not? <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> If I may ask, what is the general hang-up with house rules?  Is it just that they're not written by Wizards employees?  That it wouldn't be RPGA sanctioned?  Something else?  I'm not trying to be snide here, I really don't understand the problem.I personally prefer not to house-rule, but if there is a particular rule that I feel will make or break my play style, I'm going to do my best to work with the system to implement it.  If I felt as strongly as some of you do, I'd do my best to implement the rule on my watch.  I'm not an RPGA DM.  I play with my friends.  I won't speak for them, but I think they'd be happy to work it out with me, and if it wasn't working, they'd tell me.I've been reading these boards for a while now, and I know people don't have a problem houseruling.  What is it about this particular rule, or this particular edition, that some feel that implementing their own rules would be inappropriate?  I seriously doubt Rule 0 is going out the window in this version.To be fair, we don't know that there isn't some kind of sidebar about save-or-die spells.  It's not the default mechanic, but it could be an optional rule of some kind, maybe in the DMG.</blockquote>

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