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<blockquote data-quote="Asgorath" data-source="post: 7772333" data-attributes="member: 6921966"><p>My final thoughts on the matter:</p><p></p><p>I do think it's interesting that they've changed the wording about official rulings in the Sage Advice Compendium.</p><p></p><p>Old:</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>New:</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Based on the most recent Sage Advice video, it sounds like they're trying to avoid another situation where JEC replies to a tweet and makes an incorrect ruling that stands for many years (i.e. he only replies to rules questions when he has the books in front of him). Having said that, I still think there's a ton of value in his tweets as they give the exact same amount of insight into RAI as before. It's obviously a shame that he dug a large hole for himself with the original incorrect Shield Master tweet, but I really think it's hard to deny what the intent of the rule is at this point, or the timing of bonus actions in general. Even if his tweets no longer count as official rulings, I'm still going to be following his Twitter feed and checking sageadvice.eu when questions do come up at our table, because for me it's still valuable to know what the lead rules designer meant by a particular rule. If "following your bliss" means ignoring what JEC says he meant by a particular rule or sentence in the PHB so that you can do more damage in combat, then so be it.</p><p></p><p>Perhaps the main thing I like about the 5E rules is the fact they are generally simple and streamlined, with the goal of keeping the game flowing. I don't think there's ever been a case where a simple Occam's razor test hasn't worked for our tables. Any time I come across some language I'm not entirely sure about the meaning of and start thinking in depth about words like "take" and whether it means past, present or future, I generally find that I've gone off into the weeds and am missing the bigger picture. Quite frankly, I found that I started enjoying the game a lot more once I stopped treating it like a mathematical optimization problem and more as a shared storytelling experience.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Asgorath, post: 7772333, member: 6921966"] My final thoughts on the matter: I do think it's interesting that they've changed the wording about official rulings in the Sage Advice Compendium. Old: New: Based on the most recent Sage Advice video, it sounds like they're trying to avoid another situation where JEC replies to a tweet and makes an incorrect ruling that stands for many years (i.e. he only replies to rules questions when he has the books in front of him). Having said that, I still think there's a ton of value in his tweets as they give the exact same amount of insight into RAI as before. It's obviously a shame that he dug a large hole for himself with the original incorrect Shield Master tweet, but I really think it's hard to deny what the intent of the rule is at this point, or the timing of bonus actions in general. Even if his tweets no longer count as official rulings, I'm still going to be following his Twitter feed and checking sageadvice.eu when questions do come up at our table, because for me it's still valuable to know what the lead rules designer meant by a particular rule. If "following your bliss" means ignoring what JEC says he meant by a particular rule or sentence in the PHB so that you can do more damage in combat, then so be it. Perhaps the main thing I like about the 5E rules is the fact they are generally simple and streamlined, with the goal of keeping the game flowing. I don't think there's ever been a case where a simple Occam's razor test hasn't worked for our tables. Any time I come across some language I'm not entirely sure about the meaning of and start thinking in depth about words like "take" and whether it means past, present or future, I generally find that I've gone off into the weeds and am missing the bigger picture. Quite frankly, I found that I started enjoying the game a lot more once I stopped treating it like a mathematical optimization problem and more as a shared storytelling experience. [/QUOTE]
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