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<blockquote data-quote="ruleslawyer" data-source="post: 129519" data-attributes="member: 1757">Thank you, Jairami.Hong: I think that the most sensible conclusion that can be reached regarding the effect of the feeblemind spell on SLAs is that the spell description is unfortunately silent on the matter. Saying that an interpretation of the spell's effects that disables SLAs is directly contradictory is, as I said before, a bit extreme and reflects a highly mechanistic perspective on the rules. As stated earlier, SLAs are either &quot;just like spells&quot; and therefore can be affected by feeblemind, or are &quot;not spells&quot; and therefore are not affected by feeblemind. However, the spell description's failure to describe the effect of the spell on SLAs is not an affirmative rule per se, much as we lawyers understand that legislative silence cannot be inferred to create direct legal rules. House rule or not, IMHO, spells and SLAs should be affected the same way by feeblemind, for the reasons and flavor suggested by Jairami.&nbsp; Bowing out now...</blockquote>

[QUOTE="ruleslawyer, post: 129519, member: 1757"] Thank you, Jairami. Hong: I think that the most sensible conclusion that can be reached regarding the effect of the [i]feeblemind[/i] spell on SLAs is that the spell description is unfortunately silent on the matter. Saying that an interpretation of the spell's effects that disables SLAs is directly contradictory is, as I said before, a bit extreme and reflects a highly mechanistic perspective on the rules. As stated earlier, SLAs are either "just like spells" and therefore can be affected by [i]feeblemind[/i], or are "not spells" and therefore are not affected by feeblemind. However, the spell description's failure to describe the effect of the spell on SLAs is not an affirmative rule [i]per se[/i], much as we lawyers understand that legislative silence cannot be inferred to create direct legal rules. House rule or not, IMHO, spells and SLAs should be affected the same way by [i]feeblemind[/i], for the reasons and flavor suggested by Jairami. Bowing out now... [/QUOTE]

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