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Message: <blockquote data-quote="irdeggman" data-source="post: 3540621" data-attributes="member: 16285">This is a dangerous path to follow since the D&D rules do not follow the conventions of English languages and they (WotC) routinely use terms impropoerly.For example just some of the biggest and most common misuses:“Held” and “Wield”. Sometimes the PHB uses held to mean wielded and sometimes it uses held to mean well, held.Definitions are from Webster’s New World Dictionary Third College Edition“Hold: to take and keep with the hands or arms, or by other means; grasp; clutch; sieze.”“Wield: to handle and use (a tool or weapon)”“Contact with the ground” is another one.  There is a large contingent of people who say that “on the ground” is “at your feet”. There are some who also think that on the ground works when you are on the deck of a ship at sea.“Ground: 1. the lowest part, base, or bottom of anything 2. the surface of the earth, specifically the solid surface 3. the soil of the earth; earth; land”How about the D&D definition of “threaten”:SRD“Threaten: to make threats against; express one’s intention of hurting, punishing, etc.”“Threat: an expression of intention to hurt, destroy, punish, etc. as in retaliation or intimidation.”</blockquote>