Thanks for the quick reply. To keep things manageable, for now I'll just respond to the outside parts of your post and leave the more complex middle part for later.
There was some push to give Wildwoods the species "Tree" to give them additional Eilan Sidhe synergy. It was shot down, in part because I wasn't comfortable with "tree" covering both terrain and a species. A clever thought regardless.
I'd have to agree on both counts (clever, but structurally blurry), so thank you for your vigilance. My brain is kinda messed up by Shadow now being both a terrain type and a Species, and I hope the lines don't get blurred like that again.
Spaces cannot be in "clear sight" of any figure ... A "space" is more of a concept and has nothing physical to be looked at.
It seems you're saying that it would be impossible to interpret THROUGH THE GREEN like this —
- place the Eilan Sidhe on any unoccupied space (that's also adjacent to a tree or bush) within 4 clear sight spaces of that Eilan Sidhe
— because the concept of clear sight does not apply to unoccupied/empty spaces. That sounds reasonable on paper, but upon further scrutiny isn't that statement disproven by powers like Knockback, Summon Elemental, Summon the Rechets of Bogdan, and
(Heracles' version of) Throw?
- Knockback the figure by placing it on any empty space within 3 clear sight spaces
- place one of your ... Elementals on an empty space within 3 clear sight spaces
- place all 3 Rechets of Bogdan on empty spaces within 6 clear sight spaces
- place the figure on any empty space within 4 clear sight spaces
These seem to make it pretty clear that an empty/unoccupied space which is
about to receive a figure clearly must be able to support a clear-sight check against that figure. Otherwise the powers cited above would never work.
Thus, unless I'm missing something, I'm still forced to conclude that it was reasonable for 20BlackPearls to wonder which interpretation was intended, and that an R&C would be a reasonable thing to consider. (Or alternatively, perhaps a recast of the power text that does not allow the sentence to be parsed two different ways, but I'll wager that's less appealing to the Rules Team.)