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[-] maniclucky@lemmy.world 11 points 16 hours ago

And this is why my group is ok saying "that rule is profoundly dumb" and ignoring it while suspecting Crawford of being involved.

[-] Aielman15@lemmy.world 16 points 14 hours ago

Crawford also rules that See Invisibility doesn't remove the advantage/disadvantage on attack rolls because it doesn't say so in the spell's effect, so... Yeah, I always ignore what he says.

[-] AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net 5 points 12 hours ago

What? That's so silly.

[-] jounniy@ttrpg.network 4 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

That one has nothing to do with Crawford far as I'm aware. It’s just plain stupid interaction of several rules. You are definetly intended to be able to just cast disintegrate on the wall.

Some rules are intended in a certain way and just handled poorly. The above case is (I personally think) one of them. Others are actually intended to work a certain way because of designing aspects (like verbal components having to be said at a normal volume) but people simply decide to ditch them anyway, because they like something else better. Both are valid, but they are different.

[-] maniclucky@lemmy.world 1 points 10 hours ago

I didn't actually know it was or wasn't Crawford, just that such a terrible ruling is very much his brand.

[-] jounniy@ttrpg.network 1 points 2 hours ago

He actually has some totally based rulings too. Those just don’t stand out amongst the profoundly dumb ones.

[-] Skua@kbin.earth 4 points 12 hours ago

Ironically here, Crawford actually thinks that the text of disintegrate does in fact permit you to target a wall of force that you can't see. I don't quite understand how he thinks it says that, but it does at least confirm the intention

[-] AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net 6 points 12 hours ago

Rulings like this annoy me. Like, if he had said "the spell is poorly written, because our intention is that a wall of force can be targeted by disintegrate, but you're right that that's not what the spell descriptions say", then I'd be able to respect that a lot more than what you describe him saying.

Words are a slippery beast, and there will always be a gap between Rules as Intended and Rules as Written. Good game design can reduce that gap, but not if the designers aren't willing to acknowledge the chasm they have created

[-] jounniy@ttrpg.network 1 points 2 hours ago

I know that this may be a bit of a gap, but it’s a general problem of our society nowadays: Admitting a mistake is unpopular and can be used by others to say "See: even you acknowledged that you were wrong there.", so people only rarely do it. (Especially politicians, stars and corporations/corporate representatives.)

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