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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sacrosanct" data-source="post: 7714807" data-attributes="member: 15700"><p>Not to discount your own experience (I couldn't of course because I don't know you), but I'm afraid that does happen, and did happen, a lot.  When 3e came out with specific and highly narrowed skills and abilities, the "you can only do what's on your character sheet" was a very real problem that existed.  Not only did it exist in the "you don't have acrobatics skills, so you can't do that", but also in the "your skill/power doesn't explicitly say you can, so you can't" and "since you don't have the highest bonus for that skill in the party, you should never be doing that."  It's one of the driving factors as to why 5e's design went back to rulings over rules and more broad skill checks to be left to DM interpretation.  Because the very thing you say you or your students would never do, did happen a lot.</p></blockquote><p></p>