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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Maxperson" data-source="post: 9210610" data-attributes="member: 23751">No. It's fact that the movie and the associated stat blocks are not RAW.  The joke was in naming two different things that are the same thing.  It's not RAW.There are no RAW D&D monsters. All the rules are in the PHB =/= everything in the PHB are rules.  Monster stat blocks are not RAW at all.  There are no rules there.  There are only things which access the rules.  For example, it's not RAW that sprites have 2(1d4) hit points, but hit points and interactions with weapons and spells are explained in the PHB, so that portion of the stat block accesses PHB RAW.That seems silly.  Why do you think that? I heavily house rule my games and I still use the vast majority of PHB rules.Okay.  So what.  It still explains where the rules are.  You are also not correct.  The PHB itself when reading it says to "Go forth now. Read the rules of the game." in the preface.  The DMG tells you that it is guidelines.  And the Worlds of Adventure section of the PHB says that the rules in the PHB allow you to play in any setting.  Then the Using This Book section of the PHB talks about all the rules. And there are lots more in the PHB as well.So the rules of the game(PHB) tell you that the PHB is the rules of the game. <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" alt="🤷‍♂️" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f937-2642.png" title="Man shrugging    :man_shrugging:" data-shortname=":man_shrugging:" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" />There are no other books that contain default RAW.No he didn't.  He only used what could have been bardic inspiration.  He did not cast any spells.Show me one default rule from Tasha's that is in my game.  Just one.  My Tasha's says the following, "Tasha's Cauldron of Everything offers a host of new options for DUNGEONS & DRAGONS, and our journey through those options is accompanied by the notes of the wizard Tasha."Maybe you just don't understand what an option is.  An option is something that you have to OPT INTO, not out of.  Tasha's cannot add a single thing to my game without me going out of my way to add it in myself.  Not one thing in Tasha's is in my game by default.Yep.  You clearly don't understand what an optional rule is.Absolutely I do.  I know what an option is.  I very much understand that not one single thing in any book outside the rules that are in the PHB is in my game unless I opt into it.  On a conceptual level those books are there to provide options to the DM that he may or may not use per his desires.Every rule is not an optional rule. That's a false claim.  The DM can use rule 0 to house rule his game so that some default rules are gone or changed, but that's not the same as them being optional rules that you have to..........................OPT INTO.  To change a default rule you have to.....................OPT OUT.Do you understand the difference between "opt in" and "opt out?"  Because it's a pretty major difference.</blockquote>

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