07-31-2016, 08:17 PM | #11 |
formerly known as 'Kenneth Latrans'
Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: Wyoming, Michigan
|
Re: Undead Skeletons: Unliving or Homogenous
Wait, there are people who don't consider teeth to be bone?
__________________
Ba-weep granah wheep minibon. Wubba lubba dub dub. |
07-31-2016, 09:12 PM | #12 |
Join Date: May 2016
|
Re: Undead Skeletons: Unliving or Homogenous
Just looked that up. Teeth aren't technically bones, but they're still in the "skeleton" category in my book since they have similar bone-like properties. Follicle-based horns are also not bone, but they also stay on long after a creature dies, which is why I consider it "skeletal" but not technically bone. :P
|
07-31-2016, 09:14 PM | #13 |
Untagged
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: Forest Grove, Beaverton, Oregon
|
Re: Undead Skeletons: Unliving or Homogenous
They are different chemically. Enamel is more acid resistent for one thing.
__________________
Beware, poor communication skills. No offense intended. If offended, it just means that I failed my writing skill check. |
07-31-2016, 09:18 PM | #14 | |
Untagged
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: Forest Grove, Beaverton, Oregon
|
Re: Undead Skeletons: Unliving or Homogenous
Quote:
But when talking about a bony skeleton I think it should only include bones, not keratinous horn, teeth, or cartilaginous structures.
__________________
Beware, poor communication skills. No offense intended. If offended, it just means that I failed my writing skill check. |
|
07-31-2016, 09:37 PM | #15 |
formerly known as 'Kenneth Latrans'
Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: Wyoming, Michigan
|
Re: Undead Skeletons: Unliving or Homogenous
You are literally the first person I've ever encountered to classify them as two separate things rather than one as a sub-category of the other.
__________________
Ba-weep granah wheep minibon. Wubba lubba dub dub. |
07-31-2016, 09:50 PM | #16 |
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Canada
|
Re: Undead Skeletons: Unliving or Homogenous
Teeth definitely aren't bone. They have a lot of calcium in them, like bone - but so does limestone, clamshells, eggshells, and cheese :P
They're derived evolutionarily from skin. First comes skin, then comes teeth-ish scales all over the skin to protect it. Then there's a fork in derivation - some of those scales become specialized for biting, and some fuse together to make skulls. Some animals only get the teeth, not the skulls (see also, sharks) - but after bony skulls comes the over-all bony skeleton. They're not bones - but in mammals they errupt from within the bone and are tightly anchored to bone, and they're hard and white. So they're pretty "bone like" - but not bones.
__________________
All about Size Modifier; Unified Hit Location Table A Wiki for my F2F Group A neglected GURPS blog |
07-31-2016, 10:06 PM | #17 |
Untagged
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: Forest Grove, Beaverton, Oregon
|
Re: Undead Skeletons: Unliving or Homogenous
I can't think of the last person I heard say they were the same thing. Funny how personal experiences can be so different.
__________________
Beware, poor communication skills. No offense intended. If offended, it just means that I failed my writing skill check. |
07-31-2016, 11:19 PM | #18 |
Join Date: Dec 2007
|
Re: Undead Skeletons: Unliving or Homogenous
|
07-31-2016, 11:33 PM | #19 | |
Untagged
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: Forest Grove, Beaverton, Oregon
|
Re: Undead Skeletons: Unliving or Homogenous
Quote:
I imagine some settings may allow them to retain inorganic prosthetics and chitinous exoskeletons. Giant beetle skeletons and pirate zombies with peg legs. :)
__________________
Beware, poor communication skills. No offense intended. If offended, it just means that I failed my writing skill check. Last edited by Flyndaran; 07-31-2016 at 11:38 PM. |
|
08-01-2016, 08:04 AM | #20 | |
Banned
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: 100 hurricane swamp
|
Re: Undead Skeletons: Unliving or Homogenous
Quote:
And eye patches and tri-corn hats too! It's just magical that way. |
|
Tags |
help me out here, undead |
|
|