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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Infiniti2000" data-source="post: 2678802" data-attributes="member: 31734">Well, we agree on that.  I realize that some people view the word "houserule" as negative but IME it's from people who get told that their interpretation is, in fact, a houserule.  In some cases, it's also unfortunately used as a type of logical fallacy: an appeal to ridicule.  I don't condone or defend such tactics, however, and I do my best not to use them myself.  Even if calling someone's interpretation isn't meant as an appeal to ridicule, it is unfortunately often taken as such.  More importantly, however, houserules don't belong in this forum but whether or not something is a houserule does belong here.  It has been noted as such by the mods.Note that in this case I had to change my opinion.  I agree with Hyp that allowing someone to maintain the grapple on an AoO is not per the rules.  It doesn't mean that I'll use that in my game because I won't, but the distinction is an important one to note should I ever play in another game.  99.9% of the people out there might play it the same, but understanding that a problem could exist is a benefit to everyone involved.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>