D&D (2024) Polymorph temp hp remain

[UngeheuerLich]

I assume all here will, but it does not mean I have no interest in how others interpenetrate things, and I enjoy a good debate on something. If it changes or does not change how I or others play isn't really the point. But perhaps that stance is not one you share.

I do. But it was explain exhaustively before you joined the conversation weeks late. I am not interested in rehashing old arguments.

I am sure you read it wrong. But I stopped trying to convince people who insist on interpreting rules in the most imbalanced way: keeping polymorph temp hp after changing back...

so sorry. Have fun with your rules interpretation.
And I use the advice in the 2024 DMG:

Rules Rely on Good-Faith Interpretation. The rules assume that everyone reading and interpreting the rules has the interests of the group’s fun at heart and is reading the rules in that light.

 

[FrozenNorth]

RAI is not RAW.

RAW is not RAW.

 

[stargazer_dragon]

I do. But it was explain exhaustively before you joined the conversation weeks late. I am not interested in rehashing old arguments.

I am sure you read it wrong. But I stopped trying to convince people who insist on interpreting rules in the most imbalanced way: keeping polymorph temp hp after changing back...

so sorry. Have fun with your rules interpretation.
And I use the advice in the 2024 DMG:

Amusingly, for polymorph Temp HP I think I agree with you, I think we just have the view that they go away for different reasons.

I was honestly, more interested in the argument about concentration, as I read that part way differently. There wasn't much talk about that as it seams to have been brought up and then just accepted, with little actual conversation into it.

I really wish they had used the wording like Mass polymorph specifically calling out that they go away, and I think pretty much every table will run it that way, RAI likely. RAW I think they go away, only because other effects listed below them also do not state they go away, which indicates that they are all effects of the shapeshift. though I well know this to be a weak argument at best.

 

[stargazer_dragon]

RAI is not RAW.

Wanting to understand what RAW says doesn’t make one a pedantic munchkin nonsensible. I probably won’t run it by RAW but RAW is still RAW.

What I don’t get is the people that try to twist RAW into knots just so the game functions in a way that makes sense to them. Like you can houserule when raw doesn’t make sense.

I think this is exactly my stance, I don't care what RAW or RAI is when it comes to running the game at my own table, but I love to debate and understand RAW and RAI. Sometimes it influences how I run sometimes it doesn't since in the end whatever I feel is best for the game is what we will use.

But there is a fun in debating and understanding the RAW/ RAI rules particularly if I run at a convention where such is expected to be used. Which is also the main time I see that RAW becomes a issue since at conventions you are running for strangers, who often times also paid something to be able to join the game. though even free adventure league games or basically any time you run for public groups RAW issues tend to present themselves more commonly