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Message: <blockquote data-quote="tetrasodium" data-source="post: 8259470" data-attributes="member: 93670">It's not completely inapplicable as an analogy. Stare decisis exists in courts to create a sense of fairness & impartiality in the court, those are both good traits in a GM.  Countries with courts that don't use some method of respecting precedent are typically called things like banana republic police state & worse with a reputation for being places you never want to be under scrutiny by taw enforcement as a well understood counter example to show the risks of ignoring precedent in decisionmaking that we regularly even get to see in movies/tv/fiction. A lot of the 5e SA rulings were bonkers in conflict with past rulings & that created problems where it becomes difficult to build off both.  That's called a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circuit_split" target="_blank">Circuit split</a> when it happens in different courts, but this was frequently from wotc alone in 5e alone.  You need only start looking at the ways they rule on & avoid ruling <a href="https://www.sageadvice.eu/search_gcse/?q=barding" target="_blank">on barding</a> when it comes to mounts & animal companions vrs druids as a stark & concise example of it in action.  Even when they finally broke down & admitted that there is nothing stopping a druid PC in rules or balance from saying "well no, screw that.. yes I will" they couldn't resist throwing in a jab along the lines of "the druid explodes"edit:  the <a href="https://dnd.wizards.com/articles/features/chris-avellone-and-philip-daigle-planescape-torment-enhanced-edition" target="_blank">planescape torment/ druid  wildshape </a>podcast has another great example where they explain the justification for allowing the cool dragonborn breath weapon in any form with a "mouth like orifice" then bend over backward later to rule out racial abilities from some other races like warforged also applying.</blockquote>

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