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(dnd 5e) Prove me wrong, RAW (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works to c/rpgmemes@ttrpg.network

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Disclaimer: this is purposefully obtuse.

Other effects in the game which explicitly state they kill you:

Shadows, succubi, massive damage, death saving throws, beholder death ray (notably not even their disintegration ray kills you), power word kill, vampires, mind flayers, night hags, drow inquisitors.

Clearly, if they intended for disintegration to kill you, they'd have said so. Since specific overrides general, and there is no general rule that disintegrated creatures are dead, I rest my case. QED.

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[-] AlexanderTheDead@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

RAW, a pile of dust is not a playable character option. Sorry.

RAW, you also cannot play as a dragon fairy princess. That would be homebrew.

You REALLY want to play a pile of dust...? Well, okay, we can homebrew that for you.

[-] VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

Pfft, you could play a dragon fairy princess in 3e. Probably at something like a +10 level adjustment.

[-] AlexanderTheDead@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

The good old days.

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[-] cryptiod137@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

Well memed, but it's no fun to try to argue with someone who will take everything in bad faith, even as a joke.

[-] SolOrion@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 month ago

I disagree, I think it's funny as long as this is all theory.

If a player was actually serious about wanting to do this as more than a meme, and was arguing this hard for it I'd be mad as hell. In this context, though? It's fine. I think it's amusing how hard people can stretch the rules. It's similar to the peasant railgun. Hilarious concept. I'm still not okay with someone trying to actually use a peasant railgun.

[-] cryptiod137@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

In theory, sure. But not with OP saying "Nah-uh" to everything. There's just no fun to be had.

And I really enjoy arguing about game mechanics, just look back at me talking about that insect swarm/animal shapes nonsense people who know nothing about the game came up with.

I'd say I'd agree but there is no stretching here, you'd have to rule that a creature that is missing every part of its body is alive. You'd also have to rule that a pile of dust has a maximum HP of more than 0, or else you'd also be dead instantly.

You'd never get a death save, your already dead.

[-] tiefling 7 points 1 month ago

I would argue that by this logic, your ability scores also fall to 0, killing you

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[-] blusterydayve26@midwest.social 6 points 1 month ago

I’m just going to swing for the fences with the always objectionable, “fiction trumps rules.”

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[-] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 1 month ago

I'd like to imagine that this is how non-necromantic sapient undead creatures are created, someone has all their flesh incinerated away but somehow their soul clings to the bones, and bam sapient skeleton.

In this case it could result in a poltergeist, which uses the dust to interact with things.

[-] Egg_Egg@lemm.ee 4 points 1 month ago

The rules also don't state that being incapacitated impairs movement in any way, dropping to 0hp is stated to incapacitate you. So you can just move away at 0hp.

Obviously we have DMs who aren't robots and will play to the spirit of the game, not the word of the rules.

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[-] dharmacurious@slrpnk.net 4 points 1 month ago

This reminds me of Torchwood