Odd but legal?

Hypersmurf · Jun 8, 2007

hong said:
No, you have to fight with two weapons to be fighting with two weapons.

You have to wield a second weapon in your off-hand for Two-Weapon Fighting.

-Hyp.

hong · Jun 8, 2007

Hypersmurf said:
You have to wield a second weapon in your off-hand for Two-Weapon Fighting.

No, to satisfy the underlying abstraction, you have to use a second weapon in your off-hand for Two-Weapon Fighting.

I still see no alcohol here.

Hairfoot · Jun 8, 2007

Have you two ever thought about using your powers for good, instead of evil? Imagine the contirbution you could make to string theory or corporate law.

Hypersmurf · Jun 8, 2007

hong said:
No, to satisfy the underlying abstraction...

Whose?

-Hyp.

hong · Jun 8, 2007

Hypersmurf said:
Whose?

-Hyp.

The people involved in the game under discussion, of course.

Is there any other that matters?

Kmart Kommando · Jun 8, 2007

Actually, if Two Weapon Fighting works how Hypersmurf says it does, then you'd also have to take the -10 to all attacks you make with that offhand weapon.

Although, it does say -6 with all your primary attack or attacks, and -10 with your offhand attack. (singular) So your offhand 'flurry' still doesn't work.

Veril · Jun 8, 2007

Hypersmurf said:
So "going from not being in both hands to being in both hands" requires the Draw a Weapon action, because the state is changing, but "going from not being in one hand to being in one hand" doesn't, despite the state changing?

-Hyp.

The state is changing with the off hand. from not being wileded to being wielded. That's a draw action with that hand.

Letting go is a free action (drop action)

James McMurray · Jun 8, 2007

Hypersmurf said:
I don't think a hand is a source from which a weapon is drawn.

A well is a source from which water is drawn. A hand is a source from which a weapon is taken. The act of taking a sword from a hand is not drawing it.

-Hyp.

You are of course free to think that, but it doesn't change the English language. I will at this time gesticulate with great glee to the fact that take and draw are synonyms. Or did you not actually read the definition of draw:

2. to bring, take, or pull out, as from a receptacle or source

Now it's your turn. Please find me the definition of two that means one.

Hypersmurf · Jun 9, 2007

James McMurray said:
You are of course free to think that, but it doesn't change the English language. I will at this time gesticulate with great glee to the fact that take and draw are synonyms. Or did you not actually read the definition of draw:

2. to bring, take, or pull out, as from a receptacle or source

You're reading the commas wrong.

That's not bring; or take; or pull out. It's bring out; or take out; or pull out.

And according to your site, chestnut and salmon are synonyms. Despite this, "That car is chestnut in colour" and "That car is salmon in colour" will somehow manage to conjure wholly different images in people's minds. The words might be synonyms, but that doesn't mean they're used in the same way.

That's how one of the ESL students when I was at high school ended up writing in his essay that "The 100m relays were the orgasm of the athletics day".

-Hyp.