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<blockquote data-quote="Hawk Diesel" data-source="post: 7512629" data-attributes="member: 59848"><p>You say you don't want to be rude, but then you attack my ability to understand words because I have a different interpretation than you...</p><p></p><p>Look. You can read and see it this way if you want. No one is saying you are wrong in your ruling. Where people are so strongly and vehemently disagreeing with you is the assumption that because people are reading the text and understanding it differently than you, that we are <em>house ruling</em> while you are sticking to the RAW.</p><p></p><p>This is </p><p></p><p>1) Not ok, because it assumes you have a superior understanding / position from those who differ from you in a ruling regarding a <em>fantasy game that is clearly an abstraction of reality</em></p><p></p><p>2) Flat out wrong. While the text is in a section that is thematically similar, the fact that it is a new paragraph means that the primary focus of a specific idea or concept has shifted. An example used in a previous paragraph can support your argument regarding how one could read the way that <em>resemble</em> might mean, but it is not as you purport the only way it could be read. Resemble has many meanings, and there are many characteristics that are important to considered when determining the fitness of an object to be used as a weapon. In fact, I would argue the entire philosophy of 5e, which was created to get away from lawyer-istic interpretations of rules and purposely create ambiguity to allow DMs more leeway in ruling based on their own interpretations and play style, would trump your argument regarding how one (according to you) MUST read that second paragraph.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Oh, I'm sorry! How is the ability to physically impart force from one object to another NOT a physical characteristic that can thus be considered physically similar to another such object?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Hawk Diesel, post: 7512629, member: 59848"] You say you don't want to be rude, but then you attack my ability to understand words because I have a different interpretation than you... Look. You can read and see it this way if you want. No one is saying you are wrong in your ruling. Where people are so strongly and vehemently disagreeing with you is the assumption that because people are reading the text and understanding it differently than you, that we are [i]house ruling[/i] while you are sticking to the RAW. This is 1) Not ok, because it assumes you have a superior understanding / position from those who differ from you in a ruling regarding a [i]fantasy game that is clearly an abstraction of reality[/i] 2) Flat out wrong. While the text is in a section that is thematically similar, the fact that it is a new paragraph means that the primary focus of a specific idea or concept has shifted. An example used in a previous paragraph can support your argument regarding how one could read the way that [i]resemble[/i] might mean, but it is not as you purport the only way it could be read. Resemble has many meanings, and there are many characteristics that are important to considered when determining the fitness of an object to be used as a weapon. In fact, I would argue the entire philosophy of 5e, which was created to get away from lawyer-istic interpretations of rules and purposely create ambiguity to allow DMs more leeway in ruling based on their own interpretations and play style, would trump your argument regarding how one (according to you) MUST read that second paragraph. Oh, I'm sorry! How is the ability to physically impart force from one object to another NOT a physical characteristic that can thus be considered physically similar to another such object? [/QUOTE]
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