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<blockquote data-quote="The Crimson Binome" data-source="post: 8087229" data-attributes="member: 6775031">Everything in the book is a rule, unless it's presented as a guideline, or contradictory to something else in the book (in which case it's up for debate). D&amp;D 5E is especially prone to contradictions, but is pretty good about delineating between rules and guidelines. For example, the encounter guidelines are clearly presented as such, and all of the language in that section supports it; while the descriptions of races and classes are presented as facts about the world.I'll freely admit when something is open to interpretation, which is why I'm so resolute when it comes to something like this which is so extremely clear-cut. Claiming that &quot;words don't mean what they actually mean,&quot; is on par with &quot;meta-gaming is actually good,&quot; in terms of proposals that are so absurd as to not warrant discussion.I'm here for serious discussion about the RPG hobby; not to feed trolls. If someone insists on repeatedly wasting my time with absurd proposals, then I'm going to exercise the Ignore function. It's unfortunate that this might come across like I'm refusing to respond to a &quot;post that proves me wrong&quot;; but if they were the type of people to post logical arguments, then I probably wouldn't have Ignored them in the first place.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="The Crimson Binome, post: 8087229, member: 6775031"] Everything in the book is a rule, unless it's presented as a guideline, or contradictory to something else in the book (in which case it's up for debate). D&D 5E is especially prone to contradictions, but is pretty good about delineating between rules and guidelines. For example, the encounter guidelines are clearly presented as such, and all of the language in that section supports it; while the descriptions of races and classes are presented as facts about the world. I'll freely admit when something is open to interpretation, which is why I'm so resolute when it comes to something like this which is so extremely clear-cut. Claiming that "words don't mean what they actually mean," is on par with "meta-gaming is actually good," in terms of proposals that are so absurd as to not warrant discussion. I'm here for serious discussion about the RPG hobby; not to feed trolls. If someone insists on repeatedly wasting my time with absurd proposals, then I'm going to exercise the Ignore function. It's unfortunate that this might come across like I'm refusing to respond to a "post that proves me wrong"; but if they were the type of people to post logical arguments, then I probably wouldn't have Ignored them in the first place. [/QUOTE]

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