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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mistwell" data-source="post: 7374726" data-attributes="member: 2525">Neither are in the PHB glossary and are therefore guided by the context of the spell description itself.  I can be "afflicted" with having been "exposed" to a disease, while still not knowing if my immune system can recover from the disease so well that I don't ever notice the symptoms (effects). My immune system has been "troubled" by the disease (afflicted) but it may trouble the disease back (recover from it without me feeling the effects). I believe that is one fair interpretation of the word "afflicted" and "recover" and given the context of this spell description followed by the clarification words provided in Sage Advice, it's the right one for my table.Bottom line, IT IS OPEN TO INTERPRETATION. That was my point. You can disagree with my interpretation, but I am disputing that there is only one possible interpretation. I disagree. We have different interpretations of how that portion reads. Both are reasonable ways to read it. It's not that I don't understand how you're reading it, it's that I still read it differently than you do despite fully understanding how you are reading it and why you read it that way. Pretty much the only time people get my hackles up is when they say the way they see the world is the only conceivable rational way to see the world, despite many others seeing the world differently. Admitting things are open to multiple rational interpretations is not an admission your view is wrong. It's not mutually exclusive that you view it like X and I view it like Y and given the complexities of the English language both can be fair and rational interpretations.</blockquote>

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