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  1. Pielorinho

    Get pedantic on Feeblemind

    Well! I'm glad we got that settled! Daniel
  2. Pielorinho

    Get pedantic on Feeblemind

    Me too, although my heuristic is slightly different from Cheiromancer's. Essentially, I imagine the acting character asking me, "Can I do this?" and if in doubt, I answer, "Yes!" Daniel
  3. Pielorinho

    Get pedantic on Feeblemind

    Doesn't Imprisonment have an ongoing magical effect as well, though? I don't think Instantaneous effects dissipate with no magic left over, necessarily. Daniel
  4. Pielorinho

    Get pedantic on Feeblemind

    Again, look at imprisonment. I don't think "instantaneous" means what you're suggesting it means. Daniel
  5. Pielorinho

    Get pedantic on Feeblemind

    Lowers them to 1 or below, or just lowers them to 1? As I read it, it lowers them exactly to 1, and then you remain in that state until.... If your score goes below 1, you're not remaining in that state. Daniel
  6. Pielorinho

    Get pedantic on Feeblemind

    Why is that? Daniel
  7. Pielorinho

    Get pedantic on Feeblemind

    So what would you say is the intelligence score of the corpse? Is someone under the effects of Feeblemind immune to the effects of intelligence-damaging poisons? Daniel
  8. Pielorinho

    Lone Wolf Development Releases Free Hero Lab Preview

    Moved to press releases. Daniel
  9. Pielorinho

    Help with Awakened Gorilla Monk

    Chimpanzees are ridiculously strong. I think gorillas are even stronger. This article is eye-opening and cringe-inducing. +10 str for a chimp sounds about right: Daniel
  10. Pielorinho

    Help with Awakened Gorilla Monk

    Exactly what I'd suggest. Nobody will know if, under the fur, you're really just a human wearing a monkey suit. Use appropriate stats for another creature and call it an ape. A minor flavor suggestion, though: for my money, chimpanzees make better monks. Daniel
  11. Pielorinho

    Get pedantic on Feeblemind

    I disagree. Both ways involve a judgment call; both of you are setting up a different heuristic for resolving the apparent contradiction. Either heuristic will work, but choosing which to use is a judgment call. Daniel
  12. Pielorinho

    Get pedantic on Feeblemind

    No; it means that the description of the child's circumstances were false. It was not the case that the child would not receive a cookie until he finished his dinner. It does look to me as though you're assuming that Break Enchantment is wrong, then. Does Break Enchantment actually do what...
  13. Pielorinho

    Get pedantic on Feeblemind

    Wait--huh? Who's cloaking themselves in the protection of being "official"? Indeed--but that doesn't change the fact that Break Enchantment is written very clearly to work on a set of effects that includes Feeblemind. Daniel
  14. Pielorinho

    Strange seasoning for hamburger

    As an American here, I can say that I definitely put garlic in the spaghetti sauce. No question about it. And yeah, cinnamon used to be eaten primarily as a savory sauce. As I understand it, though, the stories about spices being used to cover up the flavors of spoiled meat are way overrated...
  15. Pielorinho

    Get pedantic on Feeblemind

    Now we gotta abandon programmatic interpretation of the rules in favor of contextual interpretation, considering how it'd work in play, what would be fun, what we can imagine coherently, what's balanced, what the authors probably intended, what the words say, etc. :) Daniel
  16. Pielorinho

    Get pedantic on Feeblemind

    The cookie example isn't really such a big deal. But look at one where the statement makes a pretty big difference: "I promise to wait for you until you get back from the war." If my sweetheart makes me this promise (she'll stay in the state of waiting until I complete the act of getting back...
  17. Pielorinho

    Get pedantic on Feeblemind

    And this might be our disagreement right here. The statement cannot be both accurate and incomplete, given the way it was phrased. If it said, "The victim can be cured by blah blah blah," then it could be accurate and incomplete; but when it says "the victim cannot be cured until blah blah...
  18. Pielorinho

    Get pedantic on Feeblemind

    Okay, let me make sure I'm following you. 1) A child is told "You can't have a cookie until you finish dinner." The child receives a cookie before he finishes dinner. You agree that the original statement was incorrect. 2) A spell says that you remain in a certain condition until one of four...
  19. Pielorinho

    Get pedantic on Feeblemind

    The question is, was your statement correct? I say your statement was incorrect. Again, your statement was incorrect. You made a prediction about the future, and it didn't come true. D&D rules are different from predictions: they're descriptions of the fantasy world. If a passage in D&D...
  20. Pielorinho

    Get pedantic on Feeblemind

    Can you explain how the first statement leads to the second? And do you agree with the sample sentences above about cookies--that if I tell you that you'll remain in a cookieless state until you clean your room to cancel that effect, and then Uncle Larry gives you a cookie, my initial statement...
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