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Message: <blockquote data-quote="abirdcall" data-source="post: 6947697" data-attributes="member: 6748898">It's impossible for me to be impartial at this point because I started with 2e. Comparatively 5e has much less to read and is crystal clear.That doesn't mean it isn't a task. I find this interesting because I find most of the confusion in the rules comes from people assuming rules are there from previous editions.How would you write them? I like that there is some flavour in the rules and that there is plain language followed by rules language. That gives theme and flavour and a context for rulings in strange situations. 5e is much less technical in general than previous editions of D&D. In both this case about Evasion and the Shadow Step your confusion lied in thinking that there was more complication and nuance to the rule than there really was. Those sorts of pedantic rules are more of a 2e thing. 3e rules are more about telling you exactly what you can do with the assumption that you are not allowed to do anything else.</blockquote>