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<blockquote data-quote="Tony Vargas" data-source="post: 5989480" data-attributes="member: 996">Being 'called' a spell means that a power is arcane.&nbsp; Swapping the arcane keyword, alone, would mean it was no longer called a spell.&nbsp; Find a spell that, swapping out /only/ the arcane keyword, is identical to an exploit.&nbsp; Post the spell and the exploit.&nbsp; Or a retraction. I'll take that as a retraction.You're saying that, but, above, you admit that it's not true.&nbsp;&nbsp; Your assertion then is that powers are more like powers than they are like things that are nothing like powers.&nbsp; Which, as Manbearcat might have pointed out, is yet another meaningless tautology.To illustrate how meaningless, we could compare the 3.0 fighter to the 3.0 wizard using the same logic.&nbsp; Both are Classes and have BAB, HD, and skill point progressions, and both gain bonus feats - all as they level.&nbsp; Those are similarities.&nbsp; Now compare them both to characters from RuneQuest.&nbsp; The RuneQuest characters do not have classes, gain levels, and do not have BAB, hit dice, skill points or feats.&nbsp; Therefor, the Fighter and Wizard are more like eachother than they are to RuneQuest characters, therefor they are the same.See?&nbsp; Bogus.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Tony Vargas, post: 5989480, member: 996"] Being 'called' a spell means that a power is arcane. Swapping the arcane keyword, alone, would mean it was no longer called a spell. Find a spell that, swapping out /only/ the arcane keyword, is identical to an exploit. Post the spell and the exploit. Or a retraction. I'll take that as a retraction. You're saying that, but, above, you admit that it's not true. Your assertion then is that powers are more like powers than they are like things that are nothing like powers. Which, as Manbearcat might have pointed out, is yet another meaningless tautology. To illustrate how meaningless, we could compare the 3.0 fighter to the 3.0 wizard using the same logic. Both are Classes and have BAB, HD, and skill point progressions, and both gain bonus feats - all as they level. Those are similarities. Now compare them both to characters from RuneQuest. The RuneQuest characters do not have classes, gain levels, and do not have BAB, hit dice, skill points or feats. Therefor, the Fighter and Wizard are more like eachother than they are to RuneQuest characters, therefor they are the same. See? Bogus. [/QUOTE]

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