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<blockquote data-quote="Jeff Wilder" data-source="post: 2228792" data-attributes="member: 5122">I just don't get this.&nbsp; Why must &quot;every creature within the area of the spell&quot; only mean &quot;when the spell is cast&quot;?&nbsp; Why can't it simply mean what it says?&nbsp; Web, after all, states that the Reflex save is made only upon casting.&nbsp; Why are you adding those words to black tentacles, when they're not in the text, and not adding them to the text leaves the spell perfectly understandable?&nbsp; Why do people insist on adding or changing the language, and then making the claim that the spell (with their added or changed language) isn't clear?We agree that's a stretch, at least.&nbsp; (I find it actually funny.&nbsp; One &quot;enters&quot; an area only once ... between entrances, one must &quot;exit.&quot;&nbsp; The concept of &quot;entering an area&quot; being synonymous with &quot;moving within an area' is just ... Lewis Carrollish.)How is it that nobody quite grasps that there is a difference between &quot;entering another square within the area of the spell&quot; and &quot;entering the area of the spell&quot;?&nbsp; It's bizarre.&nbsp; I just don't know where to go from here.And people think a &quot;simpler&quot; tax code will actually be simpler.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Jeff Wilder, post: 2228792, member: 5122"] I just don't get this. Why must "every creature within the area of the spell" [i]only[/i] mean "when the spell is cast"? Why can't it simply [i]mean what it says[/i]? [i]Web[/i], after all, states that the Reflex save is made only upon casting. Why are you adding those words to [i]black tentacles[/i], when they're not in the text, [i]and[/i] not adding them to the text leaves the spell perfectly understandable? Why do people insist on adding or changing the language, and then making the claim that the spell (with their added or changed language) isn't clear? We agree that's a stretch, at least. (I find it actually funny. One "enters" an area only once ... between entrances, one [i]must[/i] "exit." The concept of "entering an area" being synonymous with "moving within an area' is just ... Lewis Carrollish.) How is it that nobody quite grasps that there is a difference between "entering another square within the area of the spell" and "entering the area of the spell"? It's bizarre. I just don't know where to go from here. And people think a "simpler" tax code will actually be [i]simpler[/i]. [/QUOTE]

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