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  • Honestly, RAW just doesn’t work. If you can’t do anything unless specifically allowed, then you can’t do anything because whatever you do will always be more specific than what the rules say. If you can’t do anything unless forbidden, then it doesn’t work because there’s so much the rules didn’t bother with, just leaving it to common sense. And then there’s the fact that sometimes rules contradict. Sure there’s a rule that the more specific rule overrides the general rule, but that’s just yet another contradicting rule on the pile.

    There’s nothing specifically saying whether or not you can move left. There’s nothing specifically saying whether or not you can move through walls. We all know you can do one of those but not the other, but it’s not because of anything the book says.

    Granted, the book sometimes gives creatures special abilities that let them move through walls, which would be an odd thing to do if it’s something you can do anyway, but the game constantly goes into different levels of detail about things.



  • You could say that about anything. You want to move left? Point to where it says, RAW, that you can move left.

    You can do anything unless the rules forbid it. And there’s nothing forbidding continuing to play after your character is transformed any more than there is anything forbidding you to play while they’re wearing a red shirt.
















  • Archpawn@lemmy.worldtoRPGMemes @ttrpg.networkThose poor fools
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    22 days ago

    But you only gave them your name. You never submitted to control.

    There’s often stuff in fantasy about knowing a being’s true name giving you power over them, so you wouldn’t want to tell it to a fey. But if they literally took your name, then that would make it theirs, and now you know their true name. Also, according to the forgotten realms wiki, most people don’t know their own true name. It’s not the same as the name you go by.