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#1 AH_tuckerotl Oct 23, 2014 0:42:57	From these links: Sage Advice More Sage Advice More Qs&As from Mike Mearls These rulings seem to contradict each other: There has been confusion over the durable feat and the meaning of "roll" does a 20 con wizard regain a min 10 or 15 hp w/ feat? 10 - roll means die roll + mods. Anything that affects only the number yielded by the die will say so specifically. -M so a class with d6 or d8 HD and a 20 con can use durable to get back more than max possible? -yes. -M
#2 Novacat Oct 23, 2014 1:08:04	None of those are in any way meant as "official" rulings. Any contradictory or nonsensical answers can be attributed to the fact that they are giving off-the-cuff answers from a "how I would rule it" perspective. It's not "here's how the rules are supposed to work." Whenever there's doubt, ask your DM. If you are the DM, make whatever ruling makes the most sense to you, regardless of what Mearls said.
#3 Noctaem Oct 23, 2014 7:55:40	Right, if you want official answers you should look for official Q&A, errata and that sort of thing. The tweets to Mearls for example aren't official answers and must be taken with a grain of salt for the exact reasons that Novacat gave in his post. There's also the question of if you want to follow the RAW from the book or not. If you're not the DM, check with your DM. If you are the DM, asking questions on the rules Q&A forum or the DM forum can be helpful to you. Or just decide for yourself what you want to do. Just keep in mind that you should always strive to favor the players if you can.
#4 OoftaMeg Oct 23, 2014 8:57:14	I don't know if there will ever be an official Q&A for 5E, it seems like a lot of the things that people have issues with are left vague on purpose and there is no "right" answer. I'm hopeful that after the DMG comes out we'll get an FAQ/Sage Advice along with some version of Dragon/Dungeon but I wouldn't hold my breath. You can always post to this forum, but don't expect consensus on all issues.
#5 Noctaem Oct 23, 2014 10:03:34	There's actually a few Q&A's already out. The oldest I could find with a cursory search was this one: http://archive.wizards.com/Dnd/Article.aspx?x=dnd/dndqa/20140530 But I know there are more recent Q&A's and even some detailing rules in the PHB. There was one which was linked by paulstrait in another thread which talked about how the Lucky feat interacts with disadvantage.

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AH_tuckerotl

Oct 23, 2014 0:42:57

From these links:

Sage Advice

More Sage Advice

More Qs&As from Mike Mearls

These rulings seem to contradict each other:

There has been confusion over the durable feat and the meaning of "roll" does a 20 con wizard regain a min 10 or 15 hp w/ feat? 10 - roll means die roll + mods. Anything that affects only the number yielded by the die will say so specifically. -M
so a class with d6 or d8 HD and a 20 con can use durable to get back more than max possible? -yes. -M

Novacat

Oct 23, 2014 1:08:04

None of those are in any way meant as "official" rulings. Any contradictory or nonsensical answers can be attributed to the fact that they are giving off-the-cuff answers from a "how I would rule it" perspective. It's not "here's how the rules are supposed to work."

Whenever there's doubt, ask your DM. If you are the DM, make whatever ruling makes the most sense to you, regardless of what Mearls said.

Noctaem

Oct 23, 2014 7:55:40

Right, if you want official answers you should look for official Q&A, errata and that sort of thing. The tweets to Mearls for example aren't official answers and must be taken with a grain of salt for the exact reasons that Novacat gave in his post.

There's also the question of if you want to follow the RAW from the book or not. If you're not the DM, check with your DM. If you are the DM, asking questions on the rules Q&A forum or the DM forum can be helpful to you. Or just decide for yourself what you want to do. Just keep in mind that you should always strive to favor the players if you can.

OoftaMeg

Oct 23, 2014 8:57:14

I don't know if there will ever be an official Q&A for 5E, it seems like a lot of the things that people have issues with are left vague on purpose and there is no "right" answer. I'm hopeful that after the DMG comes out we'll get an FAQ/Sage Advice along with some version of Dragon/Dungeon but I wouldn't hold my breath.

You can always post to this forum, but don't expect consensus on all issues.

Noctaem

Oct 23, 2014 10:03:34

There's actually a few Q&A's already out. The oldest I could find with a cursory search was this one:

http://archive.wizards.com/Dnd/Article.aspx?x=dnd/dndqa/20140530

But I know there are more recent Q&A's and even some detailing rules in the PHB. There was one which was linked by paulstrait in another thread which talked about how the Lucky feat interacts with disadvantage.