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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Quasqueton" data-source="post: 2861039" data-attributes="member: 3854">This concept gets spoken quite a lot in this forum. It seems to suggest that there is no room or need for DM interpretation. Although I prefer to use the RAW, straight, I still run into plenty of instances where a DM must make a ruling and/or interpretation. Even situations where the DM may have to actually rule against the RAW.Or am I wrong? Does the RAW always stand, regardless of circumstances?How would you rule these examples:A flaming sphere is 5’-dameter spongy, burning, globe of fire. Say a halfling casts it between himself and a goblin archer, down a 5’-wide corridor. Does it provide cover or concealment for the halfling?Can you see a magic missile “shot” through a dark room (at a target in a lighted area)? Can you see a magic missile in a lighted room? (It is merely described as a “magical force”, which in all/most other cases is not visible.)Does a wall of fire illuminate the area it is in and around? If it can be used as a light source, doesn’t that expand the uses and flexibility, and therefore the power, of the spell?Can you get full concealment by hiding inside an illusion?If you cast sleep on an already sleeping target, does it wake up at the end of the spell’s duration, or does it continuing sleeping, but in a normal (noise can awaken) mode?If a mage with improved invisibility casts disintegrate, can you “trace” the ray back to the caster’s square (for targeting)? Are rays visible?And I love the summoned celestial bison thread for these questions:Can the summoned celestial bison initiate a grapple? Can it perform a heal check to stabilize a dying PC?What do you think? Does “spells do what they say they do; nothing more or less,” cover all circumstances? Do some things (spells in the above examples) do more/less than the rules explicitly state?Quasqueton</blockquote>

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