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<blockquote data-quote="Ovinomancer" data-source="post: 8474484" data-attributes="member: 16814">It's pg 174 in the PHB -- the only mention of this and in a context of describing roleplaying and not as a generally applicable rule to the rest of the game.&nbsp; I find it a stretch to insist that this is a general rule, and even if so it falls to specific/general.It's worth noting, I suppose, that Crawford agrees with your interpretation even though the rules as written are terrible support for this.&nbsp; Heck, I agree with your conclusion on play, I just cannot agree with the argument you're putting forward to get there.&nbsp; Can't agree with Crawford, either.&nbsp; If this was intended play, burying the critical rule in a section on roleplaying no one is going to reference when looking up rules to adjudicate play seems a really, really poor choice.&nbsp; Then couching the rule is terms of a general description of how you roleplay that's applicable to just about any RPG even those that have explicit ways to direct PC thinking?&nbsp; Weird.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ovinomancer, post: 8474484, member: 16814"] It's pg 174 in the PHB -- the only mention of this and in a context of describing roleplaying and not as a generally applicable rule to the rest of the game. I find it a stretch to insist that this is a general rule, and even if so it falls to specific/general. It's worth noting, I suppose, that Crawford agrees with your interpretation even though the rules as written are terrible support for this. Heck, I agree with your conclusion on play, I just cannot agree with the argument you're putting forward to get there. Can't agree with Crawford, either. If this was intended play, burying the critical rule in a section on roleplaying no one is going to reference when looking up rules to adjudicate play seems a really, really poor choice. Then couching the rule is terms of a general description of how you roleplay that's applicable to just about any RPG even those that have explicit ways to direct PC thinking? Weird. [/QUOTE]

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