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<blockquote data-quote="CovertOps" data-source="post: 4910498" data-attributes="member: 65152">I'm reminded of a scene from a very funny movie &quot;My Cousin Vinnie&quot; near the beginning.&nbsp; Joe Pecshi is trying to tell the judge that his clients are innocent at the arraignment and the judge (Fred Gwynn) starts talking to him about procedure, saying &quot;It sounds to me like you want to skip the arraignment, go straight to trial, skip that, and go straight to an acquittal. Here in (wherever they were) we have a procedure...&quot;.I finally see what your argument is N8Ball, even though I still completely disagree with it.&nbsp; You are suggesting that the the wording of Holy Ardor &quot;score a critical hit&quot; grants you a critical hit and BECAUSE critical hit is a subset of hit it is therefore already a hit.&nbsp; That is called implied meaning.&nbsp; Implied meaning is NOT good enough in exception based design.&nbsp; You MUST specifically override any rule that does not apply to the given situation.&nbsp; If the hit rules don't apply then they need to be called out such as &quot;...and a roll of doubles is a hit even if it does not beat the defense of the target, except in the case of double 1's&quot;.&nbsp; Exception based design does not allow you to imply anything or you break the whole system and start arguing about the phrasing of things like the presence/absence of the word &quot;can&quot;.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="CovertOps, post: 4910498, member: 65152"] I'm reminded of a scene from a very funny movie "My Cousin Vinnie" near the beginning. Joe Pecshi is trying to tell the judge that his clients are innocent at the arraignment and the judge (Fred Gwynn) starts talking to him about procedure, saying "It sounds to me like you want to skip the arraignment, go straight to trial, skip that, and go straight to an acquittal. Here in (wherever they were) we have a procedure...". I finally see what your argument is N8Ball, even though I still completely disagree with it. You are suggesting that the the wording of Holy Ardor "score a critical hit" grants you a critical hit and BECAUSE critical hit is a subset of hit it is therefore already a hit. That is called implied meaning. Implied meaning is NOT good enough in exception based design. You MUST specifically override any rule that does not apply to the given situation. If the hit rules don't apply then they need to be called out such as "...and a roll of doubles is a hit even if it does not beat the defense of the target, except in the case of double 1's". Exception based design does not allow you to imply anything or you break the whole system and start arguing about the phrasing of things like the presence/absence of the word "can". [/QUOTE]

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