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<blockquote data-quote="Emberashh" data-source="post: 9025679" data-attributes="member: 7040941">Because whether or not flight as a concept is desirable is a wholly different topic to whats being discussed. Id recommend starting a new one if you want to discuss that question. More Im disputing that your solution is whats best for the game itself, particularly in regards to official adventure design, where your apparent viewpoint is &quot;do nothing and warp all rules to ensure we do nothing to change adventure design&quot;.Keep in mind I went into the spiel about how best to design adventures for a reason. Its advice WOTC writers need to take to heart just as much as any common DM should.&nbsp; A well designed encounter doesn't have to go out of its way to provide a counter for a flying player, and not all encounters have to counter them at all. But as a DM you should be interpreting unclear rules in a way that makes the game work. Regardless of how you feel the book should present the rule, you shouldn't be reading an unclear rule and then carrying an interpretation into the game that breaks the game. And Id also argue the rules aren't really unclear on this at all. Your movement and speed are separate terms, and the interaction between this and hover directly implies a minimum amount of movement is expected each turn. And this follows given 5e was designed on the assumption DMs would be experienced with past editions, so that expectation would be assumed. As said in a previous post, thats easily adjusted by just stating it directly, and I also added that unifying speed and movement would be best as well, which simplifies what you posted in that first tweet without really losing much.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Emberashh, post: 9025679, member: 7040941"] Because whether or not flight as a concept is desirable is a wholly different topic to whats being discussed. Id recommend starting a new one if you want to discuss that question. More Im disputing that your solution is whats best for the game itself, particularly in regards to official adventure design, where your apparent viewpoint is "do nothing and warp all rules to ensure we do nothing to change adventure design". Keep in mind I went into the spiel about how best to design adventures for a reason. Its advice WOTC writers need to take to heart just as much as any common DM should. A well designed encounter doesn't have to go out of its way to provide a counter for a flying player, and not all encounters have to counter them at all. But as a DM you should be interpreting unclear rules in a way that makes the game work. Regardless of how you feel the book should present the rule, you shouldn't be reading an unclear rule and then carrying an interpretation into the game that breaks the game. And Id also argue the rules aren't really unclear on this at all. Your movement and speed are separate terms, and the interaction between this and hover directly implies a minimum amount of movement is expected each turn. And this follows given 5e was designed on the assumption DMs would be experienced with past editions, so that expectation would be assumed. As said in a previous post, thats easily adjusted by just stating it directly, and I also added that unifying speed and movement would be best as well, which simplifies what you posted in that first tweet without really losing much. [/QUOTE]

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