Confused on the Requirements for Divine Protection

[Slacker2010]

Is this the correct interpretation?

Quote:

Prerequisites: Cha 13, Knowledge (religion) 5 ranks, ability to cast 2nd-level divine spells; blessings†, domains, or mystery class feature.

I take this as you need:

Cha 13
Knowledge (religion) 5 ranks
ability to cast 2nd-level divine spells
and one of the following - blessings†, domains, or mystery class feature.

Use of the commas before and after the semicolon are throwing me for a loop, but I think I have it right.

[Claxon]

Yes, that is correct. Th options after the semicolon are to indicate you only need one of them.

[Slacker2010]

English is the crappiest language.

[blahpers]

Well, otyughs probably have a crappier one.

[Claxon]

Slacker2010 wrote:

English is the crappiest language.

I'm not sure it's proper usage of the English language, but I'm also not an English major. It is (the feat's requirements) however, confusing as hell.

[Slacker2010]

Claxon wrote:

Slacker2010 wrote:

English is the crappiest language.

I'm not sure it's proper usage of the English language, but I'm also not an English major. It is (the feat's requirements) however, confusing as hell.

OK, English is a crappy language.

[Alexander Augunas]

Claxon wrote:

Slacker2010 wrote:

English is the crappiest language.

I'm not sure it's proper usage of the English language, but I'm also not an English major. It is (the feat's requirements) however, confusing as hell.

Its 100% proper usage of the language. Its sort of like the usage of parenthesis in algebra.

For example, Divine Protection's prereqs would be written like this if we were using mathematic terms:

Cha 13 + (Knowledge [religion] 5 ranks + (Blessings OR Mystery OR Domain))

The semicolans are used to denote a sort of "super list" and the commas represent a list within a list (list-ception). So:

Cha 13; Knowledge (religion) 5 ranks; blessings class feature, mystery class feature, or domain class feature

is correct because of the use of semicolans.

[Alexander Augunas]

Slacker2010 wrote:

Claxon wrote:

Slacker2010 wrote:

English is the crappiest language.

I'm not sure it's proper usage of the English language, but I'm also not an English major. It is (the feat's requirements) however, confusing as hell.

OK, English is a crappy language.

Without being an experienced linguist, I daresay that foreign languages would handle it similarly because it is a punctuation semantic that is causing the confusion and not any aspect of English itself. At the very least, most Latin-rooted languages use similar punctuation.

[Slacker2010]

Alexander Augunas wrote:

So:

Cha 13; Knowledge (religion) 5 ranks; blessings class feature, mystery class feature, or domain class feature

is correct because of the use of semicolans.

Yes, this is what I feel it should have been.

EDIT:

Alexander Augunas wrote:

Other languages would handle it similarly because it is a written semantic (punctuation usage) and not any matter of wordage or phrasing. The French use commas and semicolans.

English is just a poorly done language, Im not basing this on commas and semicolons.

[Alexander Augunas]

Slacker2010 wrote:

Alexander Augunas wrote:

So:

Cha 13; Knowledge (religion) 5 ranks; blessings class feature, mystery class feature, or domain class feature

is correct because of the use of semicolans.

Yes, this is what I feel it should have been.

That's what it is.

[thejeff]

Alexander Augunas wrote:

Slacker2010 wrote:

Alexander Augunas wrote:

So:

Cha 13; Knowledge (religion) 5 ranks; blessings class feature, mystery class feature, or domain class feature

is correct because of the use of semicolans.

Yes, this is what I feel it should have been.

That's what it is.

No. That's not what it is. The first semicolon is actually a comma (and it dropped the 2nd level casting requirement.)

Quote:

Cha 13, Knowledge (religion) 5 ranks, ability to cast 2nd-level divine spells; blessings†, domains, or mystery class feature.

To modify your mathematical version from above:

Cha 13 AND Knowledge [religion] 5 ranks AND ability to cast 2nd-level divine spells AND (Blessings OR Mystery OR Domain)

[bugleyman]

Hmmm...I think you forgot the "total disdain for game balance" prerequisite... :P

[Artanthos]

Slacker2010 wrote:

English is just a poorly done language, Im not basing this on commas and semicolons.

What do you expect from a language constructed from random bits of a dozen other languages, thrown together without rhyme or reason.

With spellings deliberately altered from the original by Noah Webster in an attempt to make a truly "American" language.

[thejeff]

Artanthos wrote:

Slacker2010 wrote:

English is just a poorly done language, Im not basing this on commas and semicolons.

What do you expect from a language constructed from random bits of a dozen other languages, thrown together without rhyme or reason.

James D. Nicoll wrote:

The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don’t just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.

[Matthew Downie]

To be fair, very few human languages were carefully designed and tested by professional languageers.

[Artanthos]

Matthew Downie wrote:

To be fair, very few human languages were carefully designed and tested by professional languageers.

No, but most are at least semi-consistent.