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<blockquote data-quote="clearstream" data-source="post: 8101935" data-attributes="member: 71699">It's literally ambiguous. The em-dashed text is by custom an ordered list. In this case of things that count as periods of strenuous activity. Given the comma between 1 hour of walking, and fighting, it can be equally read as that &quot;1 hour of walking&quot; is strenuous activity, and any amount of &quot;fighting&quot; is strenuous activity. Which obviously makes more sense given that a character could level all or much of the way from 1 to 20 with about an hour's fighting (sixty 1 minute combats!)Some feel that it means some combination of those things, amounting to an hour, but that can no longer be true due to the the clarification that any amount of casting spells is strenuous. If any amount of casting spells is strenuous, then it is more reasonable to read it as I have suggested: each comma-delimited item in the list is strenuous. The misleading element is only then that the first item is &quot;1 hour of walking&quot;: you see how &quot;1 hour&quot; can no longer be argued to span the list?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="clearstream, post: 8101935, member: 71699"] It's literally ambiguous. The em-dashed text is by custom an ordered list. In this case of things that count as periods of strenuous activity. Given the comma between 1 hour of walking, and fighting, it can be equally read as that "1 hour of walking" is strenuous activity, and any amount of "fighting" is strenuous activity. Which obviously makes more sense given that a character could level all or much of the way from 1 to 20 with about an hour's fighting (sixty 1 minute combats!) Some feel that it means some combination of those things, amounting to an hour, but that can no longer be true due to the the clarification that any amount of casting spells is strenuous. If any amount of casting spells is strenuous, then it is more reasonable to read it as I have suggested: each comma-delimited item in the list is strenuous. The misleading element is only then that the first item is "1 hour of walking": you see how "1 hour" can no longer be argued to span the list? [/QUOTE]

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