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Yeah .. but, from your second post: According to this, "complete concealment" provides "total cover". A sufficiently leafy branch can easily provide complete concealment. I really think "concealment", "cover", and "obstacle" are too slippery of terms to be useful in this discussion. TomB

To say ... I'm finding the use of the word "cover" to be part of the confusion in this discussion. Similarly, "obstacle". There are to many meanings, imprecise meanings, to gain much traction. A leafy branch can provide total cover, but that would hardly stop most attacks. And maybe should...

Does it have any weight? If it doesn't, how does it exert pressure? Is it pinned in space, in the sense of an immovable rod (but very weakly pinned: more than 20 lbs force should move it!) If weightless, is it nevertheless subject to gravity -- as if it had weight? Is its motion limited by...

Note: The England and earth’s surface calculations are 5,280 times too low. One square mile has 5,280 x 5,280 square feet, not 5,280. Covering England to 100’ would take a bit more than 10 million years. Covering the Earth to 1’ would take about 250 million years. TomB

In the posted videos, the rope is relatively stiff (and thick). Doing the same climbs with a flexible, freely dangling rope is a lot harder. Getting ones feet/legs around the rope is a lot harder if the rope is moving around -- because you have grabbed it with your hands. And getting your...

Eh, this gets a lot harder if the rope is hanging loose, or is against a surface, or is slippery, or is thin. Bonus question: how does the answer change if the person starts 10’ under water? TomB

Agreeing to much of the rest, but this probably would have been a bad idea. There is no infringement here. A dispute over possession of the cards is not a copyright issue. No cause to take down the video. Claiming that there was a copyright violation where there was none seems quite wrong. (I...

That would work better, at least to me. That’s a positive assertion of what happened. It’s direct and unambiguous. It’s also falsifiable. WoTC has more reputation on the line in making such a statement. TomB

Agreed. I do think the response was unfriendly (at the least). I lay fault on both parties. TomB

Eh, poor resolution reproductions are probably not infringing. In comparison, if he had other cards past embargo that he owned, he could legitimately post images of them if he were selling them as singles. TomB

Not being "stolen property" does not mean that he is entitled to keep the cards. He doesn't have to send the cards back. The friendly thing to do is call the sender and tell them of the incorrect delivery. The sender has the burden of retrieving the cards. My (unsure) understanding is that...

Eh, this is not a copyright issue. A review is an allowed “fair” use. Also, a physical product carries certain rights. If he had digitized an image in full resolution and put that out that would be infringing. I thought he received the wrong product? In such a case it seems he is not...

I dunno. I can’t speak to the veracity of what was stated to have happened, but if Mr. cannon’s wife requested that they leave, and if they physically prevented the door from closing (which means they did not leave), and they did so while armed, I’d say they ratcheted up the threat to criminal...

Ah, I see. The Beyond version seems to be a ship killer. What happens if a 10’ wide trench is created across a ship? What if the ship is more than 10’ wide? TomB

I’m trusting the text at dandwiki.com In the spell Description is ‘wide’ the width of the parting? Or the width of the body of water which is to be crossed? In the second case, part water coils not be cast on the open sea. I’d give ships caught in the area of effect a chance to be either...

Why not? It's your drawing -- you can do with it as you will. Actually, how was the AI trained? If the AI was trained on data which was appropriated, that is problematic. If the AI was self trained, then I don't see a problem. TomB

Additional text removed. I’m approaching this from the point of view of a software professional, to whom copyright is an important issue. The first quote is moving too quickly over a huge part of the problem: Not obtaining a clear right to use posted work. The basic rule here is if you can’t...

What I remember from my RM days is that such a scene would require a lot of GM rolls that were mostly hidden from the players to determine what the nomads saw and how they reacted. This would take a few non-interactive minutes of GM time. I suspect the lack of drama arose from the very...

Or, it could sloppy reuse of text from prior editions! That gets my vote. That text directly and unambiguously implies that teleportation is a form of interdimensional travel. However, that idea seems well scrubbed from the description of the teleport spell. TomB

This was to address an earlier discussion in the thread. There was an argument that teleport required movement of some sort between the points. That is, continuous motion along a path. For example, a dip into the ether, or into the astral or shadow planes. Various forms of teleport spells...