Disclaimer: this is purposefully obtuse.

Other effects in the game which explicitly state they kill you:

Shadows, succubi, massive damage, death saving throws, beholder death ray (notably not even their disintegration ray kills you), power word kill, vampires, mind flayers, night hags, drow inquisitors.

Clearly, if they intended for disintegration to kill you, they’d have said so. Since specific overrides general, and there is no general rule that disintegrated creatures are dead, I rest my case. QED.

  • iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.worksOP
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    5 days ago

    I don’t need to point to where RAW says that I cannot play it because nothing leads one to believe that you can’t. If your character is polymorphed, its state changes but you can still play it.

    • AlexanderTheDead@lemmy.world
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      5 days ago

      Where does it say that, RAW? I’m using your own logic against you. You’ll have to come up with a better response than that.

      Edit: to clarify, where does it say RAW that you get to continue playing when polymorphed into a non-playable character?

      • macmacfire@lemmy.ml
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        4 days ago

        The target’s game statistics, including mental ability scores, are replaced by the statistics of the new form. It retains its alignment and personality.

        OP could’ve just repeated “spells do what they say they do.” It doesn’t say you lose control of your character in the new form, all it says about the new form and how that affects the character is…well, that line(plus a few other things about the gear they were wearing and whatnot).

        • AlexanderTheDead@lemmy.world
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          3 days ago

          If it makes a character into a non playable character option, what rule is suddenly making that character playable? Nothing explicitly states that you can play as a character that is not a playable character option. You have a set list of RAW character options.

          • macmacfire@lemmy.ml
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            3 days ago

            But nothing explicitly states that you stop playing as the character you were playing as if they were transformed, whether into a playable character option or not. There is no rule saying that that character is playable, but there is no rule saying you can’t play as them. Again, spells do what they say they do.