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<blockquote data-quote="Arial Black" data-source="post: 7175478" data-attributes="member: 6799649">If you interpret it less strictly then each individual player and DM can pick and choose which parts of the 'spell effect' actually count as the 'spell effect', and each will have his own motives for their own bias.For a set of rules which exist to make sure we all understand what the rules are, your approach would lead to no-one being sure that their understanding of the rules aligns with anyone else's, making the game virtually unplayable.Players can only make decisions if their expectations of cause and effect are logical. If they have no expectations of what would happen even after reading the rule then they cannot make reasonable decisions. This causes the game to fail.The spell descriptions must define the rule that is that spell. Two people must be able to read that description and know the rules consequences. It cannot become a pointless exercise to read the spell description to find out what the spell does!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Arial Black, post: 7175478, member: 6799649"] If you interpret it [i]less[/i] strictly then each individual player and DM can pick and choose which parts of the 'spell effect' actually count as the 'spell effect', and each will have his own motives for their own bias. For a set of rules which exist to make sure we all understand what the rules are, your approach would lead to no-one being sure that their understanding of the rules aligns with anyone else's, making the game virtually unplayable. Players can only make decisions if their expectations of cause and effect are logical. If they have no expectations of what would happen [i]even after reading the rule[/i] then they cannot make reasonable decisions. This causes the game to fail. The spell descriptions [i]must[/i] define the rule that is that spell. Two people must be able to read that description and know the rules consequences. It cannot become a pointless exercise to read the spell description to find out what the spell does! [/QUOTE]

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