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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Charlaquin" data-source="post: 8257074" data-attributes="member: 6779196">Well, 5e was explicitly designed to rely on common sense, Jeremy Crawford just changed tactics for how he answers rules questions. Shortly after the release of 5e, Sage Advice started out as a weekly column on the WotC site, and the very first one had a lengthy discussion about how any rules question really had three answers: rules a written, rules as intended, and rules as fun. And the first few questions he answered went into all three.For example, the original Sage Advice answer to the question of if Trance allows elves finish a long rest in only four hours was that it was a reasonable interpretation of the RAW, but the RAI was only for it to give them more time during a long rest to perform light activity rather than sleep, and that if you think allowing elves to take a long rest in only 4 hours would be RAF, that’s probably fine balance wise, but keep in mind the worldbuilding implications, because if elves heal and recover spells twice as quickly as everyone else, their society is likely to be militarily superior to everyone else’s.Of course, somewhere along the line, probably because he realized it would be untenable to go into this kind of detail about every rules question, he completely stopped bothering with RAI and RAF and just gave the most literal RAW interpretation possible for every question. Even changed the official answer to the trance question to a straightforward “yes” after the errata to the long rest wording.</blockquote>

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