Here's the pertinent passage: dm guide page 32. If the game come to a halt while a rules lawyer tries to find a particular rule invite him to take as long as he wants to search for it.....his character essentially steps out of game for as long as that takes. Monsters don't attack him and he can delay indefinitely.
The purpose for this is so that the rest of the players can keep playing without him.
LOL. I know how I would use that. "You can pull your character into limbo for as long as you want to rules lawyer. Nothing bad -- or good -- will happen to him. When you are ready to accept the way the rest of us want the rule to be interpreted, let me know and your character will rejoin us." I'm a huge believer in rule zero.
