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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mistwell" data-source="post: 2580905" data-attributes="member: 2525">I have to say that the whole concept of RAW is a bit silly. The rules were sometimes never intended to function as written.  For example, I know of not one single DM who has ever or would ever interpret the Strand of Prayer Beads cost entry for missing beads as it is written. And no errata or house rule is necessary for everyone to know that a normal Strand of Prayer Beads that is missing the Karma and Smiting beads does not actually give 11,000 gold to the character (or is free, if you think the negative number doesn't grants gold).  You know from looking at the entry that, despite how it is written, you are supposed to deduct the gp value of missing beads from the "greater" entry, even though it doesn't say that.  I don't need errata to tell me that's the "official" way it is supposed to work, and neither does anyone else.  The context makes it obvious despite the actual rule as written.At some point it is assumed the reader of the rules is a human being with basic comprehension of the English language and a basic level of common sense.  The rules are intended to be viewed in a context, and not a vacuum.  People are not supposed to be  mindless slaves to the rules as written when those rules don't actually make any sense as written, but can easily make sense when considering the context of the rule.</blockquote>