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Message: <blockquote data-quote="allenw" data-source="post: 1457786" data-attributes="member: 12992">I think you're conflating two questions here:    1: What was the designer's intent?  2: What is the literal meaning of the text as written?  On Question 1, I agree we don't know, and have no good way of knowing, short of asking the designers (who don't tend to answer such questions much these days).    Personally, I think it likely that the designers *did* intend the ability to work vs. (for example) Grapples, and just wrote the text poorly, as they did in other cases.  Question 2, however, is what Caliban is addressing, and while it is obviously possible to disagree, there *is* a right answer to Question 2, and several wrong ones.  And Caliban's answer is the right one.  The sentence in question, "For a total time per day of 1 round per cleric level you possess, you can act normally regardless of magical effects that impede movement as if you were affected by the spell freedom of movement," is completely unambiguous in its literal meaning.  It only contains and conveys information about "magical effects that impede movement," not about other types of effects that impede movement; therefore, it has no effect on our understanding of non-magical effects that impede movement, such as grappling.   And it doesn't appear in a context that changes or adds to its meaning, apart possibly from the context of being in a series of books known for their inexact use of language.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

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