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<blockquote data-quote="Legildur" data-source="post: 3226397" data-attributes="member: 1258">In summary (from my biased point of view), the FAQ is issued by WotC as supplement to the core rules as a way of explaining rules that historically are not well interrupted in the playing community.&nbsp; As the &quot;owner&quot; of the core rules, WotC is therefore the authority to issue such documents and have them treated as official (particularly for LG games).On the flipside, the FAQ is, on occasion, confused in its purpose, acting as either errata, issuing &quot;house rules&quot;, or contradictory to the core rules, in addition to its role to answering Frequently Asked Questions.&nbsp; In short, like probably all documents of a similar nature, it is flawed to some degree, but certainly more so than the core rules.So, depending on your required quality standard, the FAQ is either a &quot;good&quot;, &quot;bad&quot; or &quot;indifferent&quot; support document to the RAW.It is this last determination, based on an individual point of view based on several factors, that is leading to dispute amongst this community as to what &quot;weight&quot; to give the document when discussing a rules question.&nbsp; And I can't see this being rectified until WotC lift their game.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Legildur, post: 3226397, member: 1258"] In summary (from my biased point of view), the FAQ is issued by WotC as supplement to the core rules as a way of explaining rules that historically are not well interrupted in the playing community. As the "owner" of the core rules, WotC is therefore the authority to issue such documents and have them treated as official (particularly for LG games). On the flipside, the FAQ is, [B]on occasion[/B], confused in its purpose, acting as either errata, issuing "house rules", or contradictory to the core rules, in addition to its role to answering Frequently Asked Questions. In short, like probably all documents of a similar nature, it is flawed to some degree, but certainly more so than the core rules. So, depending on your required quality standard, the FAQ is either a "good", "bad" or "indifferent" support document to the RAW. It is this last determination, based on an individual point of view based on several factors, that is leading to dispute amongst this community as to what "weight" to give the document when discussing a rules question. And I can't see this being rectified until WotC lift their game. [/QUOTE]

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