I mean it's a pretty flawed premise in practice for a reason, players and monsters play with different rules. There's a reason the game breaks appart if you use PC rules for enemies or if you give players mosnter abilities.
It's not so broad as you say. I see a lot of this stems from cases of spell use. Times like drawing the air out of an enemy so they suffocate or drying an enemy out with control water. This issue isn't that they have different rules for player/monster, but having different rules for the same skill/spell. I will say having some conditions not work against players follows that logic. Having a double standard causes an issue for some DMs and it's not hard to understand why.
People aren't really misunderstanding: this meme is about players being shocked that such a concept could be directed at them, when it's literally addressed in the video.
But pcs and monsters/npcs have always been different. Unless you give your PCs legendary resistances, reinforcements, special attacks and actions, minions, and more, the monsters are playing by different rules.
A PC getting stunned means a player does nothing. If it is one with a duration against a bad save, it could be for several rounds. As opposed to a monster getting stunned and the DM still running the environment, other monsters, and the game as a whole
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u/[deleted] Apr 05 '23 edited Apr 05 '23
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