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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Neonchameleon" data-source="post: 8151155" data-attributes="member: 87792">Jargon isn't necessary - but understanding the abilities available to yourself and your teammates is. A tactician with poor knowledge of what their side can do is a poor tactician. The jargon is there so that you can don't have to name the specific rules that make things work every time. Instead it's faster and simpler once you understand it to mention the jargon.The question is whether you think Legolas should be able to do things with his bow that Gimli can possibly not even attempt with a crossbow. Such as my example of Legolas, because he's such a good archer, being able to focus on an area and take a shot at every orc that tries to come through. There's no way that Gimli should even be able to attempt that (in part because reloading a crossbow takes just too long). Me, I'd say Legolas absolutely should be able to do this and more than a few other stunts that Gimil can't with a crossbow including snap an emergency shot off when someone is being crept up on when starting with an unloaded bow.If Legolas can do these things then you can either go through the mechanics every time they are needed or you can speed everything up by calling it a "rescue shot" rather than "a shot triggered by someone creeping up on my ally" every time you actually get to use the thing.And for a battle tactician speed matters. A good answer now is a lot more useful than the right answer ten seconds too late. So using the long description in character rather than either using the official jargon or working out jargon for the group (and you also need jargon for teamwork) is objectively bad tactics. It's of course normally easier to use the official jargon rather than invent your own.So if the difference between Legolas and Gimli in combat is anything other than a number of dice rolled and a plus or two, and you have both Legolas and Gimli in the group, knowing the jargon is necessary. If you don't know what you and your group can do after only a little working together then you are demonstrably a poor tactician. If you don't see a need to communicate fast in combat you are demonstrably a poor tactician. And if you see a fixable need like that and decide it's not worth bothering to try and fix then you are, if not a poor tactician, then a poor strategist.</blockquote>

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