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<blockquote data-quote="OSEZNO" data-source="post: 5531495" data-attributes="member: 92045"><p>I'll instruct you to look at how other published feats are written, in terms of indefinite articles and other instances of plurality.</p><p></p><p>Some notable feats:</p><p><u>Dirty Fighting: </u>"...against surprised enemies". vs (against a surprised enemy)</p><p><u>Rending Tempest: </u>"a melee attack using a power... when you hit it with any other melee attacks until the end of that turn." vs. (a melee attack until the end of that turn)</p><p><u>Martial Mastery: </u>"you also regain the use of a martial encounter power you have used during this encounter" vs (one or more, two, any number of, all encounter powers you have used...)</p><p></p><p>You will see this careful choice of a vs. any vs. words that explicitly dictate plurality continuously through how they write feats (and corrected via errata when they've made mistakes not including them).</p><p></p><p>Inflection in text is syntax or semantics, if they explicitly meant one OR MORE weapons, in my opinion, they would have written "any (number of) items or any weapons as part of the same action..."</p><p></p><p>I'm not saying it's should be disallowed or that I think it's unreasonable, I'm saying it's not clear at best, and at worst it explicitly states <strong><u>A</u></strong> weapon with <u><strong>AN</strong></u> action. I also apply my reasoning to the Master at Arms feat.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="OSEZNO, post: 5531495, member: 92045"] I'll instruct you to look at how other published feats are written, in terms of indefinite articles and other instances of plurality. Some notable feats: [U]Dirty Fighting: [/U]"...against surprised enemies". vs (against a surprised enemy) [U]Rending Tempest: [/U]"a melee attack using a power... when you hit it with any other melee attacks until the end of that turn." vs. (a melee attack until the end of that turn) [U]Martial Mastery: [/U]"you also regain the use of a martial encounter power you have used during this encounter" vs (one or more, two, any number of, all encounter powers you have used...) You will see this careful choice of a vs. any vs. words that explicitly dictate plurality continuously through how they write feats (and corrected via errata when they've made mistakes not including them). Inflection in text is syntax or semantics, if they explicitly meant one OR MORE weapons, in my opinion, they would have written "any (number of) items or any weapons as part of the same action..." I'm not saying it's should be disallowed or that I think it's unreasonable, I'm saying it's not clear at best, and at worst it explicitly states [B][U]A[/U][/B] weapon with [U][B]AN[/B][/U] action. I also apply my reasoning to the Master at Arms feat. [/QUOTE]
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