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<blockquote data-quote="BlivetWidget" data-source="post: 8137208" data-attributes="member: 6912801"><p>And still not the worst offender, by far! Incendiary Cloud tells you, "The cloud moves 10 feet <strong>directly away from you</strong> <em>in a direction that you choose</em>." My emphasis to show the two aspects that cannot both be true. Directly away from you is a very specific direction that involves no choice.</p><p></p><p>Then there's Tiny Hut, which in the spell properties (the most technical language we get for DnD) tells us is a <em>hemisphere</em>, then in the description tells us is a <em>dome</em>, which <em>can </em>mean the same thing but many people don't consider a dome to have a floor while a hemisphere does... Even Crawford got tripped up over his own words before finally deciding that the technical language of the range property overshadowed the fluff of the description, deciding it does indeed have a floor.</p><p></p><p>Etc. etc. etc... the list goes on. As someone who deals professionally with a lot of technical language, the poor wording of many spells and features rankles me to no end. Even more so when Crawford acts like everyone else is being obtuse for not reading it exactly the way he intended, despite himself sometimes changing his mind on such matters.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BlivetWidget, post: 8137208, member: 6912801"] And still not the worst offender, by far! Incendiary Cloud tells you, "The cloud moves 10 feet [B]directly away from you[/B] [I]in a direction that you choose[/I]." My emphasis to show the two aspects that cannot both be true. Directly away from you is a very specific direction that involves no choice. Then there's Tiny Hut, which in the spell properties (the most technical language we get for DnD) tells us is a [I]hemisphere[/I], then in the description tells us is a [I]dome[/I], which [I]can [/I]mean the same thing but many people don't consider a dome to have a floor while a hemisphere does... Even Crawford got tripped up over his own words before finally deciding that the technical language of the range property overshadowed the fluff of the description, deciding it does indeed have a floor. Etc. etc. etc... the list goes on. As someone who deals professionally with a lot of technical language, the poor wording of many spells and features rankles me to no end. Even more so when Crawford acts like everyone else is being obtuse for not reading it exactly the way he intended, despite himself sometimes changing his mind on such matters. [/QUOTE]
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