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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cedric" data-source="post: 3059869" data-attributes="member: 2044">First, I apologize if it seemed that way. I never meant to alienate people with my choices. I just intended for "Rules as Written" to be an absolute. I dislike using analogies to make an example, because I usually find them inadequate, but in this case I'm drawn to using one. If you consider the RAW to be a recipe for a pie... If you use the RAW, that would be the same (in my example) as baking the pie by precisely following the written recipe. If you decide to add a quarter teaspoon of cinnamon, it may improve your pie, but you are no longer following the recipe as it is written. So you can't say you baked the pie exactly according to the recipe. In this example, you could not say you are using the "rules as written" if you are adding to those rules. That having been said, very seldom do people follow a recipe precisely as it is written. Likewise, I expect there are very few people who use the 3.5 RAW precisely...and there's nothing wrong with that. I bet I could swallow some of the ambiguous rules a lot better if you sprinkled some cinnamon on them. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>