Yup.
Fun fact tho:
"the game can be whatever Larian Studios wants it to be" ... and most probably will, even without the rule.
Its one of the major benefits of being a developer. xD
You clearly are not knowledgeable about licensing existing IP.
Also, it isn't even "the golden rule," it's "the rule of cool." Geez, if you're going to hinge your entire argument on it, might as well get it right. The golden rule is "do unto others..."
Beyond that though, what an individual DM does from table to table will vary, obviously and it should to suit the teeny tiny subset of D&D players that they are running the game for. This is completely a different situation. If you're going to make a game that you claim to be based on the D&D rules while making deviations necessary for the translation to computer you need to be addressing the largest possible audience and not some tiny subset with which you're intimately familiar. Other games have already illustrated that rules can be implemented, directly from tabletop to computer that Larian have simply chosen to ignore or modified into an unrecognizable state. The entire purpose of this post, from inception, was simply to point out another rule being ignored and I feel like it has significantly derailed from there.
