RAW Can Be Silly

[OldManAlexi]

When polymorphed into a giant, your armor resizes to fit you. Thus, if a horse were to be polymorphed into a giant, its barding would transform into something that fits a giant. It's kind of ridiculous but it would technically work by RAW.

Can anyone else think of a situation where RAW would create a situation like this?

[Bruunwald]

Which is silly? That the horse's barding changes to armor, or that anything at all can be polymorphed into a giant?

I guess I don't consider anything caused as an effect of magic to be silly, since it's magical and inherently silly. A more "silly" use of RAW would have to have something to do with a rule simulating actual physics, that can be manipulated into defying physics (examples of which do exist, but I'm too lazy to think of one right now).

[stringburka]

There's a whole thread on RAW that doesn't make sense.

Personally, I find the fact that an average person can't see the tarrasque from a hundred and fifty meters and don't have a frakkin' chance to see an eagle in the sky hilarious. I've thought about actually creating a world that uses that rule (actually, a "completely RAW" setting), with a constant thick fog as flavor.

[cranewings]

Bruunwald wrote:

Which is silly? That the horse's barding changes to armor, or that anything at all can be polymorphed into a giant?

I guess I don't consider anything caused as an effect of magic to be silly, since it's magical and inherently silly. A more "silly" use of RAW would have to have something to do with a rule simulating actual physics, that can be manipulated into defying physics (examples of which do exist, but I'm too lazy to think of one right now).

How about using a revolver to hit touch AC against a Rhino, as if its hide was cardboard to the mighty bullet.