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<blockquote data-quote="The Crimson Binome" data-source="post: 8099741" data-attributes="member: 6775031"><p>I am familiar with the passage, and regret that you felt it necessary to copy the whole thing out again. The thing is, that whole passage is what I described earlier as "a description of the rules, rather than the actual rules." </p><p></p><p>To put it another way, anyone can say how they <em>think</em> the rules work, but if the <em>actual </em>rules disagree with that interpretation, then that person is factually incorrect. I believe there's another passage, in more than one edition, which describes fighters as natural leaders who are capable of protecting their vulnerable teammates; but without mechanical support for that concept, it falls on its face. You can say that intelligence helps you fire a bow, but we know that's a lie, for exactly the same reason.</p><p></p><p>It doesn't matter who says that luck, a sixth sense, or magical protection accounts for any amount of HP. We <strong>know</strong> the formula for HP, and those factors simply aren't involved. We also <strong>know</strong> how luck, a sixth sense, and magical protections are <em>actually </em>reflected in terms of game mechanics (elsewhere in the book); and HP are not involved any way. Gygax's long-winded opinion is factually incorrect; and if that's what he was attempting for his rules to represent, then he failed spectacularly.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="The Crimson Binome, post: 8099741, member: 6775031"] I am familiar with the passage, and regret that you felt it necessary to copy the whole thing out again. The thing is, that whole passage is what I described earlier as "a description of the rules, rather than the actual rules." To put it another way, anyone can say how they [I]think[/I] the rules work, but if the [I]actual [/I]rules disagree with that interpretation, then that person is factually incorrect. I believe there's another passage, in more than one edition, which describes fighters as natural leaders who are capable of protecting their vulnerable teammates; but without mechanical support for that concept, it falls on its face. You can say that intelligence helps you fire a bow, but we know that's a lie, for exactly the same reason. It doesn't matter who says that luck, a sixth sense, or magical protection accounts for any amount of HP. We [B]know[/B] the formula for HP, and those factors simply aren't involved. We also [B]know[/B] how luck, a sixth sense, and magical protections are [I]actually [/I]reflected in terms of game mechanics (elsewhere in the book); and HP are not involved any way. Gygax's long-winded opinion is factually incorrect; and if that's what he was attempting for his rules to represent, then he failed spectacularly. [/QUOTE]
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