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<blockquote data-quote="mvincent" data-source="post: 3774975" data-attributes="member: 27034">Actually, any D&amp;D supplement can clarify existing rules or present new ones, provided it doesn't conflict with a source that has primacy. Unlike other supplements, addressing unclear or controversial rules is the FAQ's purpose, so it will inevitably present rulings that others do not agree with (it would be impossible for it not to and still do its job). Regardless, nitpicky people like us constantly write in to note corrections, which (if valid) cause them to revise the FAQ (I've seen this happen dozens of times). However, the FAQ is less likely to be changed by differences of opinion or differences on matters subject to interpretation (which happen constantly). For all intents and purposes, the FAQ has been reviewed more thoroughly than just about any D&amp;D supplement available. Despite the vociferous deprecations on this particular board, the majority of players (based on polls I've seen on this very board) actually put great stock in the FAQ, and it is treated as canon in the RPGA. On matters subject to interpretation (which this topic would qualify as), in can at the least serve to provide a glimpse of the publisher's intent.Still, you desired a quote from the core rulebooks, and were provided with the following from the PHB <a href="http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/glossary&amp;term=Glossary_dnd_creature&amp;alpha=C" target="_blank">glossary</a>:&quot;creatureA living or otherwise active being, not an object. &quot;This implies that a creature is not an object, and that a dead (but not undead or otherwise animated) being is an object.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="mvincent, post: 3774975, member: 27034"] Actually, any D&D supplement can clarify existing rules or present new ones, provided it doesn't conflict with a source that has primacy. Unlike other supplements, addressing unclear or controversial rules is the FAQ's purpose, so it will inevitably present rulings that others do not agree with (it would be impossible for it not to and still do its job). Regardless, nitpicky people like us constantly write in to note corrections, which (if valid) cause them to revise the FAQ (I've seen this happen dozens of times). However, the FAQ is less likely to be changed by differences of opinion or differences on matters subject to interpretation (which happen constantly). For all intents and purposes, the FAQ has been reviewed more thoroughly than just about any D&D supplement available. Despite the vociferous deprecations on this particular board, the majority of players (based on polls I've seen on this very board) actually put great stock in the FAQ, and it is treated as canon in the RPGA. On matters subject to interpretation (which this topic would qualify as), in can at the least serve to provide a glimpse of the publisher's intent. Still, you desired a quote from the core rulebooks, and were provided with the following from the PHB [url="http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/glossary&term=Glossary_dnd_creature&alpha=C"]glossary[/url]: [I]"[B]creature[/B] A living or otherwise active being, not an object. "[/I] This implies that a creature is not an object, and that a dead (but not undead or otherwise animated) being [I]is[/I] an object. [/QUOTE]

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