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Message: <blockquote data-quote="barsoomcore" data-source="post: 1851503" data-attributes="member: 812">eyebeams, I'm sorry if I'm not being clear. I'm trying to put forward two basic positions:1. A ruleset that is logically and consistently implemented tends to have rules that more often mirror DMs off-the-cuff rulings, which encourages DMs to continue making such rulings.2. The practice of making off-the-cuff rulings tends to diminish the reward for knowing the rules, because even in the case where the ruling is SIMILAR, it will often not be EXACT, and so rules knowledge that only applies to the exact and not the similar is rendered worthless.My point is that 3e, since it encourages off-the-cuff rulings by being more or less consistently and logically implemented, cannot be said to unproblematically reward rules knowledge.I'm not saying it DOESN'T reward rules knowledge. I'm saying it both rewards rules knowledge (by having a large number of modifiers that can be applied to any given situation) and "anti-rewards" it (by encouraging DMs to make off-the-cuff rulings which will, as you point out, diminish the value of rules knowledge in some cases).Does that make my position clearer? Does it make it clear that it was kind of my POINT that my off-the-cuff ruling, though similar, wasn't exact and would render useless certain rules knowledge? That was my point, I'm sorry it wasn't clear.</blockquote>