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Message: <blockquote data-quote="hawkeyefan" data-source="post: 8429722" data-attributes="member: 6785785">Yes, that's largely my point. I think that they chose the words they did for a reason.Generally speaking, there’s no question about how the rules work, and so they should work as described.That phrase doesn’t just grant the GM total authority. Sure, some of these examples are what would then constitute a question. Others I don’t think apply at all, or in the case of something like Counterspell, they work exactly as described. This is my point; absent such potential mitigating factors, the rules work as described.So yes, if it’s established that there is a question about how a rule works, then the GM decides what happens.I’m not challenging how it’s worked for decades. I’m saying that taking the phrase:"A Dungeon Master adjudicates the game and determines whether to use an official ruling in play. The DM always has the final say on rules questions."and reading that as “The DM is allowed to do whatever they want” is probably not a good way to approach play. If you happen to play that way and it works for you, that’s awesome, go ahead and have fun. But for anyone new to the hobby, or as a general discussion of how to approach play, I wouldn’t recommend that approach.</blockquote>