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<blockquote data-quote="CapnZapp" data-source="post: 6617932" data-attributes="member: 12731">D20Knight, after reading the recent discussion I really think it's best we leave the RAW/RAI angle. You want your D&amp;D to work a certain way. It is the intent of the rules according to you.And know what? That's perfectly okay!As long as you communicate your houserules to your players before they choose characters. Please do not expect them to read your intent into the text of the PHB; as you can surmise from this discussion this is not as clear-cut as you might believe or want to believe. I would simply leave out the &quot;the rules text support my position&quot; out of it entirely, and instead simply say &quot;You want to play in my campaign. Great! Here's a short document outlining my tweaks and design choices, please read it before you expect something that isn't there when I'm DM:ing&quot;It doesn't have to be complicated. But you should probably say something like &quot;movement speeds as given by the PHB cover combat/initiative situations only; out of combat, characters move at roughly the same speed, and chases are instead resolved by &lt;insert short explanation of how you do chase scenes here&gt;&quot;And you need to do it BEFORE a player chooses to play Rogues, Wood Elves and Barbarians. (They might still make these choices, but they need to know your take on movement going in)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="CapnZapp, post: 6617932, member: 12731"] D20Knight, after reading the recent discussion I really think it's best we leave the RAW/RAI angle. [B]You[/B] want your D&D to work a certain way. It is the intent of the rules [B]according to you[/B]. And know what? [B]That's perfectly okay![/B] [B]As long as[/B] you communicate your houserules to your players before they choose characters. Please do not expect them to read your intent into the text of the PHB; as you can surmise from this discussion this is not as clear-cut as you might believe or want to believe. I would simply leave out the "the rules text support my position" out of it entirely, and instead simply say [I]"You want to play in my campaign. Great! Here's a short document outlining my tweaks and design choices, please read it before you expect something that isn't there when I'm DM:ing"[/I] It doesn't have to be complicated. But you should probably say something like "movement speeds as given by the PHB cover combat/initiative situations only; [B]out of combat, characters move at roughly the same speed[/B], and chases are instead resolved by <insert short explanation of how you do chase scenes here>" And you need to do it BEFORE a player chooses to play Rogues, Wood Elves and Barbarians. (They might still make these choices, but they need to know your take on movement going in) [/QUOTE]

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