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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Aservan" data-source="post: 4153010" data-attributes="member: 63340">The rules aren't physics is a good rule of thumb most of the time.  Don't violate the spirit of the rule is a better one.Jack the rogue walks out into the field of recently harvested wheat.  Out in the middle of the two acre field he drops trow and proceeds to wiggle his backside at the hovering great wyrm red dragon above.  Jack is a rogue and has no magic skills to speak of and yet he stands tall and proud when the dragon trys to incinerate him with it's mighty breath.  After the conflagration has melted the soil into magma.  Jack still stands.  Vincinie cries "Inconceivable!"In the game world Jack used a his evasion ability to take no damage.  The spirit of the rules is that Jack's quick reflexes allowed him to hide behind something  or simply avoid being in a situation where he would get toasted.  Yet Jack was in the middle of the field with no cover to be had.  He purposefully put himself in a situation where he could get toasted.  Ballsy sure, but inconceivably stupid too.  If I was GM I give the player his props and tell him that he is dead.  Evasion is an extraordinary ability not a Supernatural one.  He is so dead.Other people will claim I am a jerk because the rules said...  I think the spirit of the rules is more important then the letter of them.  If Jack gave me any small justification (like he took a shield into the field with him) then I would rule in his favor, but I need that small bit of wiggle room to have things go his way.</blockquote>

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