Reading through a lot of these forums, i notice many people Referring to RAW! I have no idea what you gents mean by it. From reading this forums, i can tell i want to know what it is and where i get a copy of it?

It means 'Rules as written'.

So it refers to the rules as they are in the book, without any house-rules or adjustments for common sense.

It can lead to some ridiculous things if you go by the Rules As Written without adding common sense into the mix. I think the best example of this is the Peasant Railgun from DnD 3.5.

EDIT: Thankfully, Fantasy Flight seem to be better at avoiding these sort of problems than WotC is. We're not going to be seeing any Armsmen Railguns or the like in a 40k RPG unless FFG really goes off the rails.

RAW = "Rules as Written".
Essentially, the letter of the law.

RAI = "Rules as Intended".
Essentially, the spirit of the law.

These conflict more often than you'd want to think.

ShadowFighter88 said:

I'd edit my previous post, but this forum doesn't allow me to copy/paste properly so meh.