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<blockquote data-quote="Ganymede81" data-source="post: 7032237" data-attributes="member: 6812267">This is not a situation between choosing between explicit forbiddance and implicit allowance. It isn't a situation where we ask &quot;do the rules disallow it? No? Then it is cool.&quot;This is because the situation is one where there are two distinct choices beyond &quot;yes&quot; and &quot;no.&quot; Those choices are &quot;concentrating on a spell is more strenuous than eating, reading, and tending to wounds,&quot; and &quot;concentrating on a spell is less strenuous than eating, reading, and tending to wounds.&quot; The &quot;absence of prohibition is permission&quot; doctrine simply doesn't apply here because both choices are positive choices. Interpreting it otherwise, removed from the controversial Warlock context, renders the rule a nullity. The rule creates a bright line test for whether an act spoils a short rest by imploring the player to compare the act to &quot;reading, eating, etc.&quot; If we are to instead say &quot;if the rules don't say it spoils a short rest, then it is allowed,&quot; then we are essentially deleting the above rule.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ganymede81, post: 7032237, member: 6812267"] This is not a situation between choosing between explicit forbiddance and implicit allowance. It isn't a situation where we ask "do the rules disallow it? No? Then it is cool." This is because the situation is one where there are two distinct choices beyond "yes" and "no." Those choices are "concentrating on a spell is more strenuous than eating, reading, and tending to wounds," and "concentrating on a spell is less strenuous than eating, reading, and tending to wounds." The "absence of prohibition is permission" doctrine simply doesn't apply here because both choices are positive choices. Interpreting it otherwise, removed from the controversial Warlock context, renders the rule a nullity. The rule creates a bright line test for whether an act spoils a short rest by imploring the player to compare the act to "reading, eating, etc." If we are to instead say "if the rules don't say it spoils a short rest, then it is allowed," then we are essentially deleting the above rule. [/QUOTE]

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