Thanks for the solid explanations everybody. I understand now.
I'm not sure if it's some form of half-hearted trolling to get this upset over asking questions just to learn basic game mechanics, but as I've previously implied I'm more interested in the actual social aspect of the game. EQ seems to be more about the journey than the actual destination. As I've already blatantly stated, this thread was made for knowledge for knowledge's sake in order to explain an apparently widely misunderstood game mechanic, since every group I've been in has a different explanation for the way it works, all of which appear to be incorrect based on the way it was explained in this thread.
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