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Message: <blockquote data-quote="SilverfireSage" data-source="post: 6499844" data-attributes="member: 6778313">And you'd be wrong. There are so many things, soooooooo many things, that the player's can do that aren't expressed in the PH or any other rulebook explicitly. Handstands? Not in the rules. Trying to gouge someone's eye out with a spoon? Not in the rules. Surfing down a flight of stairs on a shield while shooting a bow? Not in the rules. But these are all things that we would expect a player to be able to do, and thus, we allow it using the rules as written as a guideline for those things. Surfing down a flight of stairs might require an acrobatics check and perhaps a concentration check to maintain the ability to shoot. Trying to gouge someone's eye out with a spoon might give the player disadvantage on the attack to do so. The developers of this game realized that they are only human and therefore cannot possibly identify the hundreds of thousands of scenarios that will pop up when millions buy their books and play their game. With that in mind, they created a simpler, more flexible game that allowed for common sense and DM judgement to rule, with the books facilitating and guiding the players towards the adventure. Striking out common sense just to try and poke holes in the rulebooks isn't fair to their design or a good conversational tactic either. I agree with an old thread on here. Has this situation ever actually come up in a campaign? Has anyone actually run this in real time with the Tarrasque as part of the adventure? Because until someone does and reports back, these kinds of threads are just pointless speculation.</blockquote>

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