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<blockquote data-quote="FormerlyHemlock" data-source="post: 6940455" data-attributes="member: 6787650">But you can't write rules for situationally-specific actions into the PHB. There is no &quot;cover someone with mud to impose DC 20 Perception checks against Predator vision&quot; action listed in the PHB, not because that action isn't possible but because it isn't generic enough to put in the PHB. But the PHB does emphasize that such things are possible!Emphasis added.The rules explicitly tell you that you can attempt anything you want, and that the DM/GM tells you how that action works. The rules do not imply that Push is the only way to make someone prone, they do not imply that Hide is the only way to become hidden, and they do not imply that Dash is the only way to increase your movement. Push/Hide/Dash are simply generic actions that are universal enough to be worth putting into the PHB.The &quot;strict&quot; interpretation of the PHB does not bar improvised actions. If someone reads the PHB to say that &quot;only these actions listed in the PHB are possible,&quot; they are reading it wrong.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="FormerlyHemlock, post: 6940455, member: 6787650"] But you [I]can't [/I]write rules for situationally-specific actions into the PHB. There is no "cover someone with mud to impose DC 20 Perception checks against Predator vision" action listed in the PHB, not because that action isn't possible but because it isn't generic enough to put in the PHB. But the PHB does emphasize that such things are possible! Emphasis added. The rules explicitly tell you that you can attempt anything you want, and that the DM/GM tells you how that action works. The rules do [I]not[/I] imply that Push is the only way to make someone prone, they do [I]not[/I] imply that Hide is the only way to become hidden, and they do [I]not[/I] imply that Dash is the only way to increase your movement. Push/Hide/Dash are simply generic actions that are universal enough to be worth putting into the PHB. The "strict" interpretation of the PHB does not bar improvised actions. If someone reads the PHB to say that "only these actions listed in the PHB are possible," they are reading it wrong. [/QUOTE]

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