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<blockquote data-quote="Guest 6801328" data-source="post: 6873442">So are you saying that fireballs are not able to set combustibles alight by default?&nbsp; I don't see anything in the description that says it won't.&nbsp; Which leaves us in the curious position that if the player asks, &quot;Does the fireball set the oil-drenched straw alight?&quot; to even answer the question is making up a house rule.In an earlier post you made a reference to the PHB being &quot;the Bible&quot; or a &quot;sacred text&quot; or something of that nature.&nbsp; I assume you were/are being a little bit facetious, but there does seem to be a little bit of that going on.&nbsp; To continue the analogy, BoldItalic and I are reading the &quot;Bible&quot; and saying, &quot;Hey, that was a good story and although it's not true it's a good parable for how&nbsp; we should treat our neighbors.&quot;&nbsp; And it seems like you are saying, &quot;No!&nbsp; Every single word is the word of God and is literally, exactly true!&quot;And that's fine.&nbsp; You're free to interpret the PHB such that every single sentence, even the vague &amp; ambiguous ones, are &quot;rules&quot; (including that Oath Paladins must put angelic wings on their helm or shield, otherwise they are house ruling), but...to go all meta on you here...there is no &quot;rule&quot; in the PHB saying that every sentence is a literal rule.&nbsp; You are choosing to read it that way.&nbsp; What you are failing to do is acknowledge that this is your choice, and that it is an optional choice.&nbsp; (Which, of course, is exactly what happens in real-life religious debates: the atheists &amp; heretics say, &quot;That's cool...you interpret it your way, we'll interpret it our way&quot; while the zealots &amp; fanatics say, &quot;No!&nbsp; There is only one valid way!&quot;)You're the only one changing mechanics here.&nbsp; Eloelle failed her original Int check so she doesn't know the answer to the Riddle.&nbsp; If you want to enable ZoT to extract the answer to the Riddle anyway then you are changing the mechanics of the game, and/or creating paradoxes.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Guest 6801328, post: 6873442"] So are you saying that fireballs [B]are not able to[/B] set combustibles alight by default? I don't see anything in the description that says it won't. Which leaves us in the curious position that if the player asks, "Does the fireball set the oil-drenched straw alight?" to even answer the question is making up a house rule. In an earlier post you made a reference to the PHB being "the Bible" or a "sacred text" or something of that nature. I assume you were/are being a little bit facetious, but there does seem to be a little bit of that going on. To continue the analogy, BoldItalic and I are reading the "Bible" and saying, "Hey, that was a good story and although it's not true it's a good parable for how we should treat our neighbors." And it seems like you are saying, "No! Every single word is the word of God and is literally, exactly true!" And that's fine. You're free to interpret the PHB such that every single sentence, even the vague & ambiguous ones, are "rules" (including that Oath Paladins [I]must[/I] put angelic wings on their helm or shield, otherwise they are house ruling), but...to go all meta on you here...there is no "rule" in the PHB saying that every sentence is a literal rule. You are choosing to read it that way. What you are failing to do is acknowledge that this is your choice, and that it is an optional choice. (Which, of course, is exactly what happens in real-life religious debates: the atheists & heretics say, "That's cool...you interpret it your way, we'll interpret it our way" while the zealots & fanatics say, "No! There [I]is only one valid way[/I]!") You're the only one changing mechanics here. Eloelle failed her original Int check so she doesn't know the answer to the Riddle. If you want to enable ZoT to extract the answer to the Riddle anyway then you are changing the mechanics of the game, and/or creating paradoxes. [/QUOTE]

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