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<blockquote data-quote="Nemesis Destiny" data-source="post: 5539203" data-attributes="member: 98255">I can't speak for everyone in every 4e-playing group out there, obviously, but this does not accurately describe my situation at all.More likely is that attacking objects just doesn't come up that often, or that most DMs just don't need to look up specific rules on the issue - they just make a logical ruling and move on. Those rules are there for people that actually need to reference them, due to inexperience or because they don't want to think outside the box, or because some people like to know the rules inside-out-and-backwards.What I described in my last post was pretty much the same as though I had consulted the previously quoted rules text, but here's the thing - I didn't need the rules to tell me what to do. I made a judgement based on what I think is appropriate, and, what do you know... it happened to coincide with the rules.In a lot of cases, the rules for things like this are based largely on DMing shared experience as to what works. People who have been doing it for a long time already know these things, generally, but the books cannot assume that (for reasons that this thread has made painfully obvious).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Nemesis Destiny, post: 5539203, member: 98255"] I can't speak for everyone in every 4e-playing group out there, obviously, but this does not accurately describe my situation at all. More likely is that attacking objects just doesn't come up that often, or that most DMs just don't need to look up specific rules on the issue - they just make a logical ruling and move on. Those rules are there for people that actually need to reference them, due to inexperience or because they don't want to think outside the box, or because some people like to know the rules inside-out-and-backwards. What I described in my last post was pretty much the same as though I had consulted the previously quoted rules text, but here's the thing - I didn't [I]need[/I] the rules to tell me what to do. I made a judgement based on what I think is appropriate, and, what do you know... it happened to coincide with the rules. In a lot of cases, the rules for things like this are based largely on DMing shared experience as to what works. People who have been doing it for a long time already know these things, generally, but the books cannot assume that (for reasons that this thread has made [I]painfully [/I]obvious). [/QUOTE]

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