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<blockquote data-quote="Jackinthegreen" data-source="post: 6010802" data-attributes="member: 6678119"><p>Here's a different wording: The argument is about what is RAW in the first place. Quoting the rules is one thing but interpreting and explaining their meaning is another, and it is the interpretation of the meaning of the rules that is what RAW is. In explaining the rules, you are also interpreting them, which means you are forming an opinion about what the rules mean in the first place. Someone else, using the same rules, provided a different explanation/interpretation/opinion about them that has as much potential to be right or wrong as yours was. If it didn't have that potential, do you think the argument could go on for half a dozen pages? Not likely. And yet you are saying that your interpretation is the correct one. As mentioned in Dandu's post on page 5:</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>That is exactly what RAW is: The rules as interpreted by someone. Again, in saying that "I'm stating that this is RAW" you are saying that it is your interpretation and have tried to shoot down a different interpretation because to you it isn't correct, thus yours must be.</p><p></p><p>The only true fact in this is the exact wording of what the rules say. If the rules say "X creature is Medium" then those are the rules. What is an interpretation of those rules is saying that the same creature is not Large. If you want to say what the exact rules are, quote them exactly, saying nothing else, and be done with it. Let other people interpret it for themselves.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jackinthegreen, post: 6010802, member: 6678119"] Here's a different wording: The argument is about what is RAW in the first place. Quoting the rules is one thing but interpreting and explaining their meaning is another, and it is the interpretation of the meaning of the rules that is what RAW is. In explaining the rules, you are also interpreting them, which means you are forming an opinion about what the rules mean in the first place. Someone else, using the same rules, provided a different explanation/interpretation/opinion about them that has as much potential to be right or wrong as yours was. If it didn't have that potential, do you think the argument could go on for half a dozen pages? Not likely. And yet you are saying that your interpretation is the correct one. As mentioned in Dandu's post on page 5: That is exactly what RAW is: The rules as interpreted by someone. Again, in saying that "I'm stating that this is RAW" you are saying that it is your interpretation and have tried to shoot down a different interpretation because to you it isn't correct, thus yours must be. The only true fact in this is the exact wording of what the rules say. If the rules say "X creature is Medium" then those are the rules. What is an interpretation of those rules is saying that the same creature is not Large. If you want to say what the exact rules are, quote them exactly, saying nothing else, and be done with it. Let other people interpret it for themselves. [/QUOTE]
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