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<blockquote data-quote="Gradine" data-source="post: 7509977" data-attributes="member: 57112"><p>Poetry is, by its very nature, open to interpretation. Legislation is a whole other can of worms; needless to say that the ability to apply creative judicial interpretation of law (in the United States, anyway) that runs contrary to the intent of the legislation when the legislators are there to explain their intent because that intent runs contrary to the judge's own political leanings is pretty damn huge problem but as long as both sides of the aisle love it when their side of the courts do it I'm not sure it's one that'll be resolved any time soon.</p><p></p><p>By the by, I'd personally House Rule it so that a Bonus Action triggered by an Attack Action can be used after the first attack in a sequence, if the Attack Action contains multiple attacks. That's what makes the most sense to me, from both a narrative perspective and from an ease of running play/actually playing perspective. But then I do all kinds of stuff that is technically against the rules but I can't be bothered to enforce them when it gets in the way of the fun. I also didn't write the rules in question, nor am I paid to provide clarification to said rules.</p><p></p><p>All that said, stating that declaring an Attack Action but taking no actual attacks is the same as <em>taking</em> an Attack Action is the same kind of nonsense legalistic applesauce the Supreme Court used when it decided [obvious political statement redacted for the well-being of all involved].</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Gradine, post: 7509977, member: 57112"] Poetry is, by its very nature, open to interpretation. Legislation is a whole other can of worms; needless to say that the ability to apply creative judicial interpretation of law (in the United States, anyway) that runs contrary to the intent of the legislation when the legislators are there to explain their intent because that intent runs contrary to the judge's own political leanings is pretty damn huge problem but as long as both sides of the aisle love it when their side of the courts do it I'm not sure it's one that'll be resolved any time soon. By the by, I'd personally House Rule it so that a Bonus Action triggered by an Attack Action can be used after the first attack in a sequence, if the Attack Action contains multiple attacks. That's what makes the most sense to me, from both a narrative perspective and from an ease of running play/actually playing perspective. But then I do all kinds of stuff that is technically against the rules but I can't be bothered to enforce them when it gets in the way of the fun. I also didn't write the rules in question, nor am I paid to provide clarification to said rules. All that said, stating that declaring an Attack Action but taking no actual attacks is the same as [I]taking[/I] an Attack Action is the same kind of nonsense legalistic applesauce the Supreme Court used when it decided [obvious political statement redacted for the well-being of all involved]. [/QUOTE]
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