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Message: <blockquote data-quote="FormerlyHemlock" data-source="post: 6993960" data-attributes="member: 6787650">I'm no kind of classical scholar, but the story as I've heard it told is that after the Second Punic War, they spared Carthage, and some Romans were not cool with that and considered Carthage to be an ongoing threat. Cato the Elder in particular was famous for ending all of his Senate speeches, no matter what the topic, with "And BTW I also think that Carthage must be destroyed" or some variation thereon. ("Autem" can mean "moreover"/"however"/"on the other hand"/"notwithstanding", and "and BTW" is how I translate "Ceterum autem" in my head.)<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carthago_delenda_est" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carthago_delenda_est</a>(Naturally, in real life I don't feel nearly so strongly about cyclic initiative--I can live and let live--but the .sig still tickles my funny bone, and has more than a grain of truth to it.)I'm not arguing that you can dispositively infer that interpretation--the point I was trying to make is that from the mechanics you can't tell what was occurring in the fiction. 5E doesn't have a "velocity" stat, and acceleration/deceleration are always instantaneous. Since the example doesn't clearly result in a clearly nonsensical outcome, only an ambiguously nonsensical outcome, it's a weaker example than one such as a human who uses Expeditious Retreat to ride 4 different Phantom Steeds 200' each for a total of 800' during his turn.I can imagine house rules which would prevent these kinds of clearly nonsensical outcomes, but so far the complexity/benefit ratio doesn't seem to be in favor of their implementation.</blockquote>

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