Because a flying Rhino is a pretty absurd rules interaction.

From playing a Sci-Fi campaign once, I can confirm that this is true.

Option one sounds a lot cooler and more impressive, but option two sounds funnier.

"Should jail sentence time be based on race?" will allways be one of my favourite posts ever.

Thanks for pointing this out, that’s better than what I could've said to explain it. The DM can always make changes without adhering to any limitations, but if they are a good DM, they'll at least try to be consistent. And that’s the least I expect from professional writers. (And I similarly expect them to wait for the actual rules of the system to be published before writing an adventure.)

I love this gem. The only thing they got a but wrong is that bardic inspiration could actually be whispered, since it only requires the target to be able to hear you.

It is in this regard. It might be poorly balanced, but there are rules for things like the sound a spell makes or the specific spells available to NPCs. There are a lot more rigid systems, but DnD definetly isn’t on the casual side either.

I feel you. I'm currently planning to run it someday and there are just so many things I'll definetly change.

Glad someone else knows it. As a player who frequently had to transcribe spells into roll20, I always just assume other people know the components certain spells take to cast and then end up confused if they don’t.

"So what do you have? "

"A sword!"

"A sword?"

"Yes. And I can hit with it twice as often twice every hour."

"... I'll stick to my spellslots thank you."

"... It sounded better in my head."

Never show this to my players please.

Something tells me that this will be the favorite picture of many people… I am not among them of course.