• Stamets@lemmy.worldOP
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    3 months ago

    The English language still backs it up. If you fall, you are falling. Simply because there is an ing missing from the text of a thing not said in the joke doesn’t mean that the joke doesn’t work. On top of that there’s the whole part of how the DM is God in a game, not the DMG or the rule book.

    You didn’t ruin anything. Just weirdly pedantic for no reason

    • Cethin@lemmy.zip
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      3 months ago

      Weirdly pedantic is fun sometimes, and I’d say especially so with D&D 5e rules that often are very poorly worded.

      Damage taken from being the Fall season would be called “Fall damage” in English though. It is not a verb that you did, it is a noun that is. You are not falling. It is fall. Falling is only from a present tense verb of fall.

      Sorry to be more pedantic.

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        3 months ago

        Since we have all decided to be pedantic, ‘falling’ is not the past tense of ‘fall’.

        Its like a participle or gerund or some shit that means it is happening now. edit either I misread or original message was edited. Regardless others have thoroughly beaten me at being pedantic.

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          3 months ago

          It should tell you if it’s edited with an asterisk and it should say when the edit happened. I didn’t edit the message though. It always said it was present tense.