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<blockquote data-quote="Brother MacLaren" data-source="post: 3527706" data-attributes="member: 15999">I lean towards interpreter, trying to figure out the spirit of the rules and the game design reasons why they are a certain way.&nbsp; I'm perfectly happy to take that approach on the Rules forum as well, since talking about WHY the rules are the way they are is still talking about the rules.&nbsp; I rarely appeal to realism, but more often to what a rule was meant to accomplish versus what it actually does accomplish if interpreted one way or another.The Cleave/AOO trick is one where the literalist interpretation seems to fly in the face of balance and good game design.&nbsp; It was, I think, a design oversight to NOT have a sentence saying &quot;You cannot Cleave on an Attack of Opportunity.&quot;The lance question is one of ambiguous wording where the literalist interpretation best supports the design intent as I understand it.&nbsp; Without giving the lance the 2-handed benefits if used 1-handed while mounted... most cavaliers would ALWAYS use it 2-handed while mounted.&nbsp; Str and PA bonus are just too high at that level.&nbsp; It's a slightly odd visual, and here's one case where realism does factor into it for me -- it doesn't seem to me that holding a lance 2-handed (or carrying a spear overhead, or whatever) would impart that much more force than couching it normally.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Brother MacLaren, post: 3527706, member: 15999"] I lean towards interpreter, trying to figure out the spirit of the rules and the game design reasons why they are a certain way. I'm perfectly happy to take that approach on the Rules forum as well, since talking about WHY the rules are the way they are is still talking about the rules. I rarely appeal to realism, but more often to what a rule was meant to accomplish versus what it actually does accomplish if interpreted one way or another. The Cleave/AOO trick is one where the literalist interpretation seems to fly in the face of balance and good game design. It was, I think, a design oversight to NOT have a sentence saying "You cannot Cleave on an Attack of Opportunity." The lance question is one of ambiguous wording where the literalist interpretation best supports the design intent as I understand it. Without giving the lance the 2-handed benefits if used 1-handed while mounted... most cavaliers would ALWAYS use it 2-handed while mounted. Str and PA bonus are just too high at that level. It's a slightly odd visual, and here's one case where realism does factor into it for me -- it doesn't seem to me that holding a lance 2-handed (or carrying a spear overhead, or whatever) would impart that much more force than couching it normally. [/QUOTE]

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