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<blockquote data-quote="FitzTheRuke" data-source="post: 8263762" data-attributes="member: 59816"><p>I'm not sure there's any way you could word it that would make me understand how anyone could interpret walls as transparent through any reading of RAW or Fluff. It's really outside anything I can get behind. And I've HONESTLY tried to follow your logic, I just haven't been able to.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Ah, I see what you mean. I don't read "can't see" as a mechanical penalty. The penalty is "Fail Perception Checks" and "Have Disadvantage on Attacks", ETC. The rest is story-fluff. And when the mechanics make it seem like you might be able to see a little, to make it make sense, I'm going to say that you see a little, even if you're "effectively blind". To me that means you have all the mechanical penalties of the Blinded condition, but you can <em>see</em> whatever I feel like describing. (Be it shadows, movement, or whatever).</p><p></p><p></p><p>No, I'm pretty sure no one ever claimed that. They were just trying to say, in the face of opposition, WHY they personally choose to rule it that way, over the (obviously more popular) Ink-Blot interpretation. That's what <em>I</em> inferred from their posts, at any rate.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="FitzTheRuke, post: 8263762, member: 59816"] I'm not sure there's any way you could word it that would make me understand how anyone could interpret walls as transparent through any reading of RAW or Fluff. It's really outside anything I can get behind. And I've HONESTLY tried to follow your logic, I just haven't been able to. Ah, I see what you mean. I don't read "can't see" as a mechanical penalty. The penalty is "Fail Perception Checks" and "Have Disadvantage on Attacks", ETC. The rest is story-fluff. And when the mechanics make it seem like you might be able to see a little, to make it make sense, I'm going to say that you see a little, even if you're "effectively blind". To me that means you have all the mechanical penalties of the Blinded condition, but you can [I]see[/I] whatever I feel like describing. (Be it shadows, movement, or whatever). No, I'm pretty sure no one ever claimed that. They were just trying to say, in the face of opposition, WHY they personally choose to rule it that way, over the (obviously more popular) Ink-Blot interpretation. That's what [I]I[/I] inferred from their posts, at any rate. [/QUOTE]
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