04-15-2011, 08:20 AM | #41 | |
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Re: multiple damage, weapon master and other weirdness
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And you're right about Chucky Cheese, but only because it's not only a proper noun for the chain of kid-themed restaurant arcades, but actually a proper noun as in a character name. Although even then, such names can be descriptive... the Burger King is indeed supposed to a King, specifically of Burgers. |
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04-15-2011, 08:32 AM | #42 |
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Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: Melbourne FL, Formerly Wellington NZ
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Re: multiple damage, weapon master and other weirdness
again WRONG... Red Robin is compound noun as soon as the Robin was named 'Red Robin' as apposed to merely being a Robin that is Red.
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04-15-2011, 08:59 AM | #43 |
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04-15-2011, 09:07 AM | #44 |
Dog of Lysdexics
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: Melbourne FL, Formerly Wellington NZ
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Re: multiple damage, weapon master and other weirdness
look a female Red-headed Woodpecker does stop being a Red-headed Woodpecker just because it does not have a red head like the male.
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04-15-2011, 09:12 AM | #45 | |
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Re: multiple damage, weapon master and other weirdness
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;-) This is fun. A few more rounds? |
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04-15-2011, 09:15 AM | #46 |
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04-15-2011, 09:21 AM | #47 | |
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Re: multiple damage, weapon master and other weirdness
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If the writers state that natural weapons do not fall under Weapon Master, then that is so, and no amount of grammatical legalese will change that. *Either that or you're arguing in bad faith, which looks increasingly likely.
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04-15-2011, 09:56 AM | #48 |
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04-15-2011, 09:58 AM | #49 | |
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Re: multiple damage, weapon master and other weirdness
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I'm not arguing in bad faith. I'm saying that since there's nothing in the rules as written and published to indicate that 'natural weapons' are not a proper subset of 'weapons', standard English usage applies and they presumptively are. The term 'unarmed combat skills' (which as a subset of 'combat skills', which itself is a subset of 'skills', is another example of this standard usage) is not in itself a statement that natural weapons don't count as weapons, since the unarmed combat skills are used with things like the cestus which definitely are external weapons as well as with natural weapons such as punches, kicks, claws, and teeth, so the argument that 'unarmed combat skills' can't be used with 'weapons' is on its face invalid. Last edited by vitruvian; 04-15-2011 at 10:04 AM. |
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04-15-2011, 10:02 AM | #50 |
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Re: multiple damage, weapon master and other weirdness
But your thesis is that an "adjective noun" is necessarily part of the "set of all noun". So either Red Robin is an actual robin or it is at least possible for a natural weapon to not fit the GURPS use of weapon.
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