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<blockquote data-quote="+5 Keyboard!" data-source="post: 3754886" data-attributes="member: 48586">This is neither here nor there, it's just an amusing anecdote. I have a good friend who played D&amp;D with me from the Basic Set on and off again all the way up to v.3.5. He was a bit iffy on his grasp of the game back in the day. He has none at all in the current version, though I've tried to teach and re-teach him a number of times. I helped him build a character that had Evasion as a class ability and he ran that character through a couple sessions before being &quot;off again&quot;. No matter how many times I explained how this class ability worked, he would counter every tick of damage against him no matter the source with, &quot;But Steve, I have Evasion!&quot; Which was followed by my broken record explanation of how it worked and completely not comprehended by him.To this day, the running joke if one of my players just decides he doesn't feel like taking whatever beating he/she is taking is, &quot;But Steve, I have Evasion!&quot; And it goes both ways. If my villain somehow eludes an attack of some kind or another (by the rules, but something that isn't obvious to them) and they cry, &quot;Hey! How'd he not take damage from _______?!&quot; I sometimes reply with a smug grin, &quot;He has Evasion.&quot;</blockquote>

[QUOTE="+5 Keyboard!, post: 3754886, member: 48586"] This is neither here nor there, it's just an amusing anecdote. I have a good friend who played D&D with me from the Basic Set on and off again all the way up to v.3.5. He was a bit iffy on his grasp of the game back in the day. He has none at all in the current version, though I've tried to teach and re-teach him a number of times. I helped him build a character that had Evasion as a class ability and he ran that character through a couple sessions before being "off again". No matter how many times I explained how this class ability worked, he would counter every tick of damage against him no matter the source with, "But Steve, I have Evasion!" Which was followed by my broken record explanation of how it worked and completely not comprehended by him. To this day, the running joke if one of my players just decides he doesn't feel like taking whatever beating he/she is taking is, "But Steve, I have Evasion!" And it goes both ways. If my villain somehow eludes an attack of some kind or another (by the rules, but something that isn't obvious to them) and they cry, "Hey! How'd he not take damage from _______?!" I sometimes reply with a smug grin, "He has Evasion." [/QUOTE]

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