Sean Merwin

And then people say, oh, I wish it was just easy so we could just play our game and not sit for 20 minutes discussing all these rules. And the pendulum starts to swing back. And there is no right or wrong answer. It depends on your group and it depends on the kind of game you want to play.

And so it's fun to watch this cyclical debate or the cyclical paradigm play out throughout the issue, the editions of the game.

And so it's fun to watch this cyclical debate or the cyclical paradigm play out throughout the issue, the editions of the game.

Yeah, I mean, there is a community who will try to take advantage of loose wording, and then there's the community that will take advantage of specific wording, as in this case. And let me just say, with new weapon properties now, well, I want to take an opportunity attack against the barbarian who just went past me, because he's also standing next to the big bad guy, so I can cleave through...

Yeah, I mean, there is a community who will try to take advantage of loose wording, and then there's the community that will take advantage of specific wording, as in this case. And let me just say, with new weapon properties now, well, I want to take an opportunity attack against the barbarian who just went past me, because he's also standing next to the big bad guy, so I can cleave through...

the barbarian who will only take half damage and needs to be damaged anyway, to actually get a hit on this. But my other, oh, and now I can sneak attack, now I can blank, right? You could parse it a lot of different ways. And so, we have laws and lawyers you know, thriving because of this need to nail every specific thing down.

the barbarian who will only take half damage and needs to be damaged anyway, to actually get a hit on this. But my other, oh, and now I can sneak attack, now I can blank, right? You could parse it a lot of different ways. And so, we have laws and lawyers you know, thriving because of this need to nail every specific thing down.

And no matter how much you try, it's going to be twisted and it's going to be, and you could say, well, if you wrote the rules better blank, but no, you can't, you can't, there is no point at which you can write the perfect rule that will cover every single thing because the game itself also needs to expand.

And no matter how much you try, it's going to be twisted and it's going to be, and you could say, well, if you wrote the rules better blank, but no, you can't, you can't, there is no point at which you can write the perfect rule that will cover every single thing because the game itself also needs to expand.

Yeah, exactly. And that's what it comes down to, because the last part of the question is, in 2014, Sage Advice and Arata tried to fix these disparities, but Wizards has recently moved away from aggressively interpreting rules for people.

Yeah, exactly. And that's what it comes down to, because the last part of the question is, in 2014, Sage Advice and Arata tried to fix these disparities, but Wizards has recently moved away from aggressively interpreting rules for people.

Is the game better off by letting tables have a very different rules interpretation for each table, or is it better for there to be a prescriptive rules-as-written interpretation to drive uniformity? And the answer is yes. Yes to both. Because the game wants to be different things. The game wants to be a tool set that you can take with your individual group of players and GMs.

Is the game better off by letting tables have a very different rules interpretation for each table, or is it better for there to be a prescriptive rules-as-written interpretation to drive uniformity? And the answer is yes. Yes to both. Because the game wants to be different things. The game wants to be a tool set that you can take with your individual group of players and GMs.

Yeah. Or the game also, the rules also want to become a community-wide standard so that everyone can see the way that the game rules intend the game to work. And that's where you get a community, and that's where you get people who can share stories and do these things. But in a way, that also takes communication. It's just a different form of communication.

Yeah. Or the game also, the rules also want to become a community-wide standard so that everyone can see the way that the game rules intend the game to work. And that's where you get a community, and that's where you get people who can share stories and do these things. But in a way, that also takes communication. It's just a different form of communication.

It's a communication of, one is, this is what our group will do. And the other is, what does the game want us to do? And that's why the... the creators of the game can and should step forward and say, this is what we intended the rules to be. We could not create the perfect wording for that, but this is what we intend.

It's a communication of, one is, this is what our group will do. And the other is, what does the game want us to do? And that's why the... the creators of the game can and should step forward and say, this is what we intended the rules to be. We could not create the perfect wording for that, but this is what we intend.

And you can use it if you want, but this is why we created the rules the way we did.

And you can use it if you want, but this is why we created the rules the way we did.

And our last question comes to us from LordOz3 via YouTube. And this question is in regards to the last week's question about the medicine skill and how it might be more useful in curing diseases and so on. So regarding healing, what does the rest of the world do if they don't have access to clerics?