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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Felon" data-source="post: 2966713" data-attributes="member: 8158">I sent in a fair amount of questions to Skip during his sage advice tenture, and was often amazed at what a sizable chip he had on his shoulder. His replies sometimes contained remarks like "well, I"ll try to answer your question, but since I was the person who wrote the original rules that you clearly find to be so inadequate and unhelpful, I don't think it'll do much good." Very high-strung.Another thing that you had to understand about Skip's answers was that his goal was to interpret and support the RAW as-is; if you illustrated a scenario where the RAW operated in a counter-intuitive, cumbersome, or flat-out nonsensical manner, Skip did not see it as the sage's job to provide loopholes or exceptions. He wouldn't hesitate to say "yep, that's just how it works" rather than "yeah, you're right, the rule as-written doesn't work well in that situation--handle it this way instead". Some respected that, some didn't. For instance, a lot of folks think AoO's take away more from the game than they add, and there are certainly a great number of scenarios where they operate in a downright bizarre manner, but they're part of the system and Skip can't back down from being the system's advocate. So questions like "can someone use the Cleave feat after an AoO" or "what would happen if an AoO provoked an AoO, and that AoO in turn provoked an AoO, and both characters have Combat Reflexes" are kind of a no-win scenario. The sage either has to engineer an exception to the RAW, or he has to simply put on a straight face and say "yes, you can blenderize an opponent with extra attacks by having someone herd some blind, sickly kobolds past you".Not sure how I'd handle it were I in his shoes.</blockquote>

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