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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Camarath" data-source="post: 1657593" data-attributes="member: 11987">You are assuming that the sentence cover all exclusions and limitations it clearly does not as it states that you can have either of the two feats but Cleave is a perquisite for Great Cleave meaning that normally to gain one of the feats one must gain the other. This means the either can not really means either it must normally mean "If you have Cleave or both Cleave and Great Cleave". I attribute the inconstancies of the sentence to the vagaries of its phrasing.The sentence does not specify if one has Cleave or both Cleave and Great Cleave so the possibly attacks could be for if one has Great Cleave and it is the first attack (which also is not specified). If they wrote the sentence based  on the first foe dropped and moving foward why did they make no mention of the foe being dropped being the first foe dropped or of subsequent droppings of other foes. The sentence only talks about dropping one foe and does not say if that foe is the first foe dropped. I think the used to word possibly because two conditions must be met for you to gain two attacks one that you have both Cleave and Great Cleave and two that it is the first foe dropped in a round neither of these conditions are required by the sentence so they may or may not be the case (a possibility). Assuming that the sentence assumes (but does not state) that the foe dropped is the first foe dropped in a round to is IMO too much assumption to base a definitive conclussion on. The sentence does not specify if the dropped foe is the first dropped foe of the round and thus does not require it to be. You may think it make sense for it to be so but the sentence does not mandate that it is the first foe dropped. Thus this sentence can mean different things based on the preconceptions you feed into it. It more than likely is meant to mean what you believe it to mean but it does not stated that unambiguously. IMO that means that it can't be used as a definitive proof that cleave works in the way you believe that it is meant to. Once we start adding to the sentence so that it fits our interpretation the sentence losses any ability to differentiate between our two interpretations.</blockquote>

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