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<blockquote data-quote="Tovec" data-source="post: 6078210" data-attributes="member: 95493">A. Did WotC MAKE AD&amp;D, B/X or OD&amp;D? No.B. Does WotC make 4e? Yes.C. Does WotC make Magic (The Gathering)? Yes.D. In MtG does the card specify &quot;target creature&quot; or what not? Yes.E. In MtG does that mean that it targets anything else in the room/battlefield? (Including equipped &quot;artifacts&quot;/creatures near it/objects on the floor?) No.F. If a card is supposed to hit a person AND anything near it then would it say so? Yes. (Something like: Hits up to 3 enemy targets creatures for X damage. Destroys all artifacts on the battlefield. - or whatever.)Therefore, is it possible that when WotC when making a similar product would assuming that NOT specifying something DOES exclude it? In my mind, if I'm wanting something TO target both a person (or people) and everything else in the room then I need to say it does - instead of assuming the DM will automatically allow it without it being said. I get that you like vague, but vague lacks consistency, and any semblance of order or reality. The DM may say it hits the paper on the floor, or they may say it excludes those papers because those papers are super important .. for some reason. Or may be the DM forgot the papers, because the spell doesn't specify, and now the players think the papers are important because they are fire-immune.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Tovec, post: 6078210, member: 95493"] A. Did WotC MAKE AD&D, B/X or OD&D? No. B. Does WotC make 4e? Yes. C. Does WotC make Magic (The Gathering)? Yes. D. In MtG does the card specify "target creature" or what not? Yes. E. In MtG does that mean that it targets anything else in the room/battlefield? (Including equipped "artifacts"/creatures near it/objects on the floor?) No. F. If a card is supposed to hit a person AND anything near it then would it say so? Yes. (Something like: Hits up to 3 enemy targets creatures for X damage. Destroys all artifacts on the battlefield. - or whatever.) Therefore, is it possible that when WotC when making a similar product would assuming that NOT specifying something DOES exclude it? In my mind, if I'm wanting something TO target both a person (or people) and everything else in the room then I need to say it does - instead of assuming the DM will automatically allow it without it being said. I get that you like vague, but vague lacks consistency, and any semblance of order or reality. The DM may say it hits the paper on the floor, or they may say it excludes those papers because those papers are super important .. for some reason. Or may be the DM forgot the papers, because the spell doesn't specify, and now the players think the papers are important because they are fire-immune. [/QUOTE]

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