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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mistwell" data-source="post: 6385879" data-attributes="member: 2525">Depends on which definition you look at.  I picked the first two that came up in a Google search.Google says:coming after something in time; following. synonyms:    following, ensuing, succeeding, later, future, coming, to come, next.Webster says:following in time, order, or place.For me, my read of it is that it follows, but only in time, order, or place.  In this case the "time" frame in question is "turn".  So, the following time (turn).  Or, if looking at "following in order", the orderly thing is "turns", IE the turn that comes in order after the last turn.  And finally "following in place", if you were to line up a series of turns, the one that follows the turn that triggers is the next turn in place.So by any read I can think of for that Webster's definition, it's the next turn.The Google definition includes many things, but in particular I looked at succeeding and next, both of which imply the turn right after the triggering turn.  A turn that comes at a random point after hundreds of other turns is not the succeeding or next turn.Overall, I think it's one reasonable way to read that sentence, that a subsequent turn means a next turn following in time, order, or place.  IE, the next/succeeding turn after the triggering turn.It also helps that it makes more sense in context.  You don't hold a target spell target-less for hours, particularly not a curse.  You're supposed to be re-directing your "bewitchment", not sitting around juggling it for hours contemplating the possibility you will curse someone with your existing curse at some point in the future.And of course we now have the author of the rule telling us what his intent was for the rule, which also helps.</blockquote>

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