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<blockquote data-quote="seebs" data-source="post: 6985784" data-attributes="member: 61529">But you can only do it if you actually replace words with other words, which are not actually &quot;synonyms&quot; strictly speaking, just sort-of-similar.&quot;hide&quot; is not &quot;remain unnoticed&quot; in the context of a discussion of your ability to take Hide actions, and a lightfoot halfling doesn't &quot;slip, unnoticed, behind a creature&quot; -- the halfling vanishes, and is no longer visible.Basically, I don't accept this &quot;gloss&quot;, and I so don't accept it that I do not even believe it to be a real position at this point. It's simply not convincing, and it requires so much torturous re-reading as to be implausible.I'll believe this to be real when I see one of the people claiming it actually ask Crawford for an answer. In the absence of that, we're now several pages past my ability to assume good faith in the face of contrary evidence.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="seebs, post: 6985784, member: 61529"] But you can only do it if you actually replace words with other words, which are [B]not[/B] actually "synonyms" strictly speaking, just sort-of-similar. "hide" is not "remain unnoticed" in the context of a discussion of your ability to take Hide actions, and a lightfoot halfling doesn't "slip, unnoticed, behind a creature" -- the halfling [B]vanishes[/B], and is no longer visible. Basically, I don't accept this "gloss", and I so don't accept it that I do not even believe it to be a real position at this point. It's simply not convincing, and it requires so much torturous re-reading as to be implausible. I'll believe this to be real when I see one of the people claiming it actually ask Crawford for an answer. In the absence of that, we're now several pages past my ability to assume good faith in the face of contrary evidence. [/QUOTE]

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