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<blockquote data-quote="Pielorinho" data-source="post: 3161866" data-attributes="member: 259">The question is, was your statement correct?&nbsp; I say your statement was incorrect.Again, your statement was incorrect.&nbsp; You made a prediction about the future, and it didn't come true.D&amp;D rules are different from predictions:&nbsp; they're descriptions of the fantasy world.&nbsp; If a passage in D&amp;D says, &quot;Children do not get a cookie until they have eaten their dinner,&quot; then, by the rules, they do not get a cookie from Uncle Larry until they've eaten their dinner.&nbsp; It's a description of the way the cosmos works, not a prediction about its working.The peculiarity of the change wrought by the spell.&nbsp; What it does to your mind is something that can only be reversed by a very specific things, listed in the spell.The fact that it's instantaneous doesn't matter.&nbsp; It's not that there's a magic aura preventing other things from getting through; according to the spell's description, the change is static and unfixable until one of four specific things happen.Also, and sorry to be pedantic (well, I guess that's the point of the thread), but what about the cookie?&nbsp; Do you agree that my statement about a cookieless child is rendered incorrect by my mischievous Uncle Larry?Daniel</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Pielorinho, post: 3161866, member: 259"] The question is, was your statement correct? I say your statement was incorrect. Again, your statement was incorrect. You made a prediction about the future, and it didn't come true. D&D rules are different from predictions: they're [b]descriptions of the fantasy world[/b]. If a passage in D&D says, "Children do not get a cookie until they have eaten their dinner," then, [b]by the rules[/b], they do not get a cookie from Uncle Larry until they've eaten their dinner. It's a description of the way the cosmos works, not a prediction about its working. The peculiarity of the change wrought by the spell. What it does to your mind is something that can only be reversed by a very specific things, listed in the spell. The fact that it's instantaneous doesn't matter. It's not that there's a magic aura preventing other things from getting through; according to the spell's description, the change is static and unfixable until one of four specific things happen. Also, and sorry to be pedantic (well, I guess that's the point of the thread), but what about the cookie? Do you agree that my statement about a cookieless child is rendered incorrect by my mischievous Uncle Larry? Daniel [/QUOTE]

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