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<blockquote data-quote="SableWyvern" data-source="post: 4275324" data-attributes="member: 1008">Again, I agree with the ultimate conclusion you're reaching, but what you're saying here is not prima facie true. I think it would at least as accurate to say that the action you are taking is &quot;spending a healing surge in order to recharge an item.&quot;There is no blatantly obvious chain of events that occurs when recharging an item. If I were to say, &quot;When the space shuttle accelerates, it expends reaction mass in the process,&quot; that is not to say that expending reaction mass is a by-product of producing acceleration. It is, in fact, an integral part of the process, and it would be just as legitimate to say, &quot;Reaction mass is expended in order to generate thrust.&quot;Similarly, the section on recharging items could just as easily be written, &quot;Expend a healing surge as you channel your vitality into the item,&quot; without changing what is being said. Reading too much into sentence structure and the ordering of phrases, when much of a sentence consists of flavour text, is not, IMO, a good way too go about making strict rule adjudications.Fortunately, I don't think you need to strictly interpret the section on recharging one way or another in order to resolve the Healing Word dilema. As I mentioned initially, the intent of the rules on this matter seems pretty clear to me.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="SableWyvern, post: 4275324, member: 1008"] Again, I agree with the ultimate conclusion you're reaching, but what you're saying here is not [i]prima facie[/i] true. I think it would at least as accurate to say that the action you are taking is "spending a healing surge in order to recharge an item." There is no blatantly obvious chain of events that occurs when recharging an item. If I were to say, "When the space shuttle accelerates, it expends reaction mass in the process," that is not to say that expending reaction mass is a by-product of producing acceleration. It is, in fact, an integral part of the process, and it would be just as legitimate to say, "Reaction mass is expended in order to generate thrust." Similarly, the section on recharging items could just as easily be written, "Expend a healing surge as you channel your vitality into the item," without changing what is being said. Reading too much into sentence structure and the ordering of phrases, when much of a sentence consists of flavour text, is not, IMO, a good way too go about making strict rule adjudications. Fortunately, I don't think you need to strictly interpret the section on recharging one way or another in order to resolve the Healing Word dilema. As I mentioned initially, the intent of the rules on this matter seems pretty clear to me. [/QUOTE]

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