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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ExploderWizard" data-source="post: 6455800" data-attributes="member: 66434">Where do you think you are? ...THIS.....IS....GAMING!......Of course I'm not referring to the royal "we" with this.  The larger picture is that over the last two editions WOTC has built up quite a rules lawyer culture. With 5E they at least attempted to break out of that shell and write a game in which every aspect of play wasn't nailed down to the nth degree. The issue here is that too many official rulings taken as gospel from on high (not totally WOTC's fault for that) will eventually turn 5E into 3.75E. Once a ruling comes down from on high it is often treated by a large portion of the player base as part of THE RULES and bit by bit, the adaptability of the system is whittled away. If official rulings didn't close so many minds to other avenues, I wouldn't care about them as much. Hey I might be just a nutbar and imagining all of this but have you ever witnessed this effect in action? Anyone on message boards discussing D&D probably has. Post about doing something cool in the game then later lamenting the fact that they can no longer do this because of some tweet from a developer. Seriously?</blockquote>