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It's like this for all TTRPGs. Someone always be trying to rules lawyer away someone's fun. ๐
Hey, that rules-lawyering is someone's fun!
Rules-lawyering rules lawyers is my fun!
I actually love rules lawyering, but it has to be done away from the table, and done with a certain amount of good faith. And don't get mad when others rules lawyer you back.
In 7th Ed 40k, I found a way to make the Tau Stormsurge to be even more ridiculous than it already was. It clearly conflicted with RAI. I had to talk it out with another Tau player, who was a real lawyer, to find a way to invalidate it. He had to pull out actual lawyer tricks of carefully reading the rule to disentangle it, and he agreed it wasn't at all obvious.
But I never played with that interpretation, and never intended to. Tau players already have a reputation for playing like dicks.
It's like this for large parts of human life; you just hope that no lawyer ever gets wind of whatever thing is being done.