New Posts For Thread: Insta-kill on Vorpal crithttp://community.wizards.com/go/thread/view/75882/28772107/Insta-kill_on_Vorpal_critEDIT: TO CLARIFY, NO ONE IN THIS THREAD HAS EVER ARGUED THAT AN INSTAKILL CRIT *SHOULD* HAPPEN. THE ARGUMENT IS WHETHER OR NOT IT *DOES* HAPPEN IF THE RULES ARE FOLLOWED AS WRITTEN. IF IT DOES, THEN CLEARLY AN ERRATA SHOULD BE ISSUED.ALSO, NOTE THATI agree. Hence why I point out that powers like Brutal Barrage make it so that this is not incongruous.Also, I think such an incongruity can be evidence that an interpretation is invalid, but it's not a direct proof. You'd have to look at all the othhttp://community.wizards.com/go/thread/view/75882/28772107/Insta-kill_on_Vorpal_crit?post_id=514712489#514712489I agree. Hence why I point out that powers like Brutal Barrage make it so that this is not incongruous.Also, I think such an incongruity can be evidence that an interpretation is invalid, but it's not a direct proof. You'd have to look at all the othSat, 07 Jan 2012 13:26:20 -0600No reason to be upset... I'm merely trying to indicate that we have different definitions of 'RAW' and 'valid'. The crit dice are in the rules (i.e. RAW), and the presence of an incongruous rule, precendence or statement can be enough to eliminate thhttp://community.wizards.com/go/thread/view/75882/28772107/Insta-kill_on_Vorpal_crit?post_id=514712141#514712141No reason to be upset... I'm merely trying to indicate that we have different definitions of 'RAW' and 'valid'. The crit dice are in the rules (i.e. RAW), and the presence of an incongruous rule, precendence or statement can be enough to eliminate thSat, 07 Jan 2012 13:17:51 -0600I agree. Hence why I point out that powers like Brutal Barrage make it so that this is not incongruous.Also, I think such an incongruity can be evidence that an interpretation is invalid, but it's not a direct proof. You'd have to look at all the othhttp://community.wizards.com/go/thread/view/75882/28772107/Insta-kill_on_Vorpal_crit?post_id=514708747#514708747I agree. Hence why I point out that powers like Brutal Barrage make it so that this is not incongruous.Also, I think such an incongruity can be evidence that an interpretation is invalid, but it's not a direct proof. You'd have to look at all the othSat, 07 Jan 2012 11:35:59 -0600No reason to be upset... I'm merely trying to indicate that we have different definitions of 'RAW' and 'valid'. The crit dice are in the rules (i.e. RAW), and the presence of an incongruous rule, precendence or statement can be enough to eliminate thhttp://community.wizards.com/go/thread/view/75882/28772107/Insta-kill_on_Vorpal_crit?post_id=514708455#514708455No reason to be upset... I'm merely trying to indicate that we have different definitions of 'RAW' and 'valid'. The crit dice are in the rules (i.e. RAW), and the presence of an incongruous rule, precendence or statement can be enough to eliminate thSat, 07 Jan 2012 11:27:08 -0600The extra crit dice would seem to rule that option out as a 'valid' interpretation (maybe as a 'semantic', or 'strict literal' one though).[/quote]I did actually address this exact point in my updated post (corollary to counter-argument 1).In particuhttp://community.wizards.com/go/thread/view/75882/28772107/Insta-kill_on_Vorpal_crit?post_id=514708337#514708337The extra crit dice would seem to rule that option out as a 'valid' interpretation (maybe as a 'semantic', or 'strict literal' one though).[/quote]I did actually address this exact point in my updated post (corollary to counter-argument 1).In particuSat, 07 Jan 2012 11:23:58 -0600