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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Maxperson" data-source="post: 7484180" data-attributes="member: 23751">Did you read the article?  The rules say that the rules are secondary, that the DM can change them at will, and that the DM needs to rule when the rules don't cover situations.  Then they filled 5e with so much vagueness that the DM will need to be ruling on a regular basis.  His rulings come first and the rules are secondary. Hence, rulings over rules.'The article is very clear that 5e is open ended to allow rulings and not hard rules to bind PCs into actions.  The bolded sections very clearly tell you that the rules are not intended to be crystal clear, because that would severely limit what characters can do, and D&D is intended to be open ended.  "The DM is key. Many unexpected things can happen in a D&D campaign, and no set of rules could reasonably account for every contingency. If the rules tried to do so, the game would become unplayable. An alternative would be for the rules to severely limit what characters can do, which would be counter to the open-endedness of D&D. The direction we chose for the current edition was to lay a foundation of rules that a DM could build on, and we embraced the DM’s role as the bridge between the things the rules address and the things they don’t.In a typical D&D session, a DM makes numerous rules decisions—some barely noticeable and others quite obvious. Players also interpret the rules, and the whole group keeps the game running. There are times, though, when the design intent of a rule isn’t clear or when one rule seems to contradict another."</blockquote>

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