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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jessemock" data-source="post: 1290733" data-attributes="member: 15694">A marvelously clever rejoinder.  You take your incomprehension and banalise it, reverse the rhetorical direction:  now it's my fault that you don't understand what I'm saying.  And you appeal to the sympathies of your audience:  you ask them to recognise me as embodying a stereotype, while at the same time reminding them that you came to the playground first.Yes.  Well-played.  But let me try to demystify the statement that's got you in a tizzy.Hong found it expedient to play on my use of the word 'loggerheads'.  His paronomastic hypocorism:  'log-boy'.  You can see the cleverness here, no need to explain that.Where it really gets complicated is in the relationship to the initial issue.  You see; I'd previously made it clear that I don't understand the reasoning behind the Plant type's immunity to Critical Hits.  Now, I left that point behind, in order to explore the implications of what the SRD says about Crits. (not much, by the way; if you want to check it out for yourself, I believe that there are links at the top of the D&D Rules Forum page).Nonetheless, this vegetative question remained on my mind, not least because of the definition of Critical Hits in the rulebooks, which you rather snidely reminded us of.That's one for you, there:  good point.The problem, of course, is that, under this definition, Crits. rely on 'vital areas', which apparently means "vital organs" or "points of weakness".  There's the trick:  for anyone who has been outside, it's clear that plants very much do have "points of weakness" and, for botanists or woodsmen, it's well known that plants have "vital organs".You can see how this would bug me, right?  Thus, I barked at Hong a little, hoping he would deign to reply to the rules issue at hand. To this time, no luck.None with you, either.  Perhaps, I could interest you, by suggesting even further that stone, too, has points of weakness?  Wouldn't that mean something?  Here's hoping.</blockquote>

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