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This is a vision of the city with its political direction made architecturally explicit. Space is at a premium – when surrounded by an ocean of slum dwellings, only productive citizens are offered protection within the city walls. Three barriers segregate the political community, Truth, Knowledge and Power. Progression through each barrier is made via a gate, a test which must be met before admittance is allowed. In this way a rigid hierarchy is maintained as the urban fabric is moulded to fit the political order.
Its the beginning of a series of drawings called Neo-Feudal that i'm working on.
The drawing coalesces a series of thoughts about the developing political scenario and how it might affect the urban landscape. Taking as a starting point the military fortifications of Renaissance Europe, the drawing interrogates the idea that we are reverting to an increasingly protectionist, stratified and militarized urban landscape.
The image is conceived as a series of conceptual barriers which prohibit entry to the higher parts of the city.
The first barrier is a concrete one.
The second barrier is an educational one.
The third barrier is a financial one.
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When Josh's father, a minor-league baseball player, is cut from his team, he gets a job with an under-14 championship traveling team, and pushes Josh into joining. Despite grueling practices and some hazing, Josh is beginning to fit in. But then he is offered steroids by one of the other kids, steroids that the other players use, and that presumably come from the intense and somewhat scary coach -- who is now his father's employer.
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George P. Pelecanos's latest book is not only a tremendously detailed and emotionally powerful crime novel but also a virtual compendium and update of his other excellent novels that are all similarly rooted in the nonpolitical neighborhoods of Washington, D.C. Brought back for major roles are Marcus Clay, Dimitri Karras, and other important players from King Suckerman. There are poignant cameos by Randolph of Shoedog as well as the two Nick Stefanos--grandfather and grandson--from The Big Blowdown, A Firing Offense, Down by the River Where the Dead Men Go, and Nick's Trip. As always, Pelecanos uses jabs of pop music, basketball, clothes, and cars to quickly root us in time and place.
It's 1986, 10 years after the Bicentennial events of King Suckerman, so a woman in her 30s wears a Susanna Hoffs-style haircut "from the cover of the 'All Over the Place' album, not the redone look off the new LP." Dimitri, after a brief career as a teacher, is now working full-time for his friend Marcus's expanded chain of four Real Right record stores; he drives a BMW 325 and wears his graying hair moussed and spiked. (He also snorts more cocaine than Al Pacino did in Scarface, one of several films used as icons here.) The doomed basketball star Len Bias--just finishing his college career and about to sign a huge deal with the Boston Celtics--is on TV screens everywhere, admired equally by the former local hoops hero Clay and a conflicted cop named Kevin Murphy who has misplaced his moral compass. The complicated, satisfying plot involves $25,000 stolen from a drug dealer; several children in peril; smart adults who screw up their lives in dumb ways; and the speed with which violence festers and explodes in unexpected directions. --Dick Adler --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
From Publishers Weekly
Pelecanos (King Suckerman) lays a fair claim to be the Zola of Washington, D.C. The latest of his thrillers, which use a recurring cast of ordinary Washingtonians to chronicle the city's decline since WWII, brings us to 1986, when Vietnam vet Marcus Clay, founder of ("African American Owned and Operated") Real Right Records, and his employee and best friend, aging Greek-American cokehead Dmitri Karras, witness a grisly car accident outside Clay's newest record shop on the struggling U Street strip. A suburbanite, in town to score blow from Karras, steals $25,000 in drug money from the car and inadvertently starts a race between local hoods and dirty cops?to get the money back and avenge the theft?that jeopardizes the neighborhood's fragile peace. As always, the intertwined fates of black and white Washington inform the fates of Pelecanos's individual characters, and if he cooks up saccharine subplots for his protagonists, the city's large and small tragedies?its crack epidemic, the overdose of local hero Len Bias, the disgrace of home rule, the withering of D.C.'s last independent music scenes, the ugly segregation of the place?cut the sweetness and haunt the compelling main plot from beginning to end. With characters for whom the White House is just a tourist attraction, Pelecanos is that rare bird among Washington novelists, a writer who loves and knows the city he writes about.
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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But the book isn't perfect. Without trying to explain its somewhat complex and interwoven story let me just say the ending seems to fit together just a bit too nicely. I would have liked a least one loose end, which would a been a better reflection of reality. The ending wasn't disappointing, but rather it could have been just a bit more powerful.
Bottom line: my favorite so far from Pelecanos after reading nearly of his books. Strongly recommended.
Marcus Clay, up from mean streets, is a successful record store owner. Actually four record stores. So successful, Pelecanos points out, his wife Elaine has left him.
Right there is an extraordinary subtlety. Pelecanos paints his black characters with the same confusing mish-mosh of emotional color as he does his white characters, saying, 'we are all the same, all confused, all looking for love, losing it, trying to recapture it.'
Marcus resists the encroachment of drug dealers in the location of his stores and that resistance turns not surprisingly to bloodshed.
Karras, his colorblind Greek friend, suffers the moral dilemma of his own drug habit and recognition of the consequences of his acts.
Very compelling; very noir. Highly recommensded.
The only caveat I might suggest is that you may want to read some of the earlier works to get a better grip on the personality of the characters. Kudos.
That out of the way, let me just say, Pelacanos seems to be 80% setting, 10% Characters, 10% story.
After finishing Sweet Forever, I didn't want to hear another reference to an 80's band for the next several weeks. Pelacanos seems compelled to remind the reader that it is 1986, roughly fifteen times per page. He mentions cars every now and again. He mentions political figures sometimes. But mainly, he establishes setting through music, and Basketball.
And it's silly, if you ask me.
Every one of his characters, at some point in the story - which only takes place over a couple of days - goes to some sort of music show. Music seems to be the most important thing each of the characters lives. And the College Basetball thing? Come on. It was popular, I don't deny that, but he makes it seem as though it - and Len Bias - were bigger than life. Maybe he should have made the setting 1987, and used the Redskins as a Prop. Anyway, after all was said and done, I wanted to yell at the author, "Enough! I KNOW it's 1986; I get the point, already."
The characters were OK, but I couldn't identify with any of them.
The story was TV cop show quality at best.
All in all. The novel was readable. If you're Pelacanos, and you happen to read this review: Sorry. I get the feeling yo can do much better.
In this book, a drug car smashes and bursts into flames outside Marcus Cray's Real Right record store. Someone waiting outside the record store walks over to the car and takes a pillowcase filled with money out of the burning car. When the local gang-leader, and owner of the money, finds out about the theft of his dough, he's not very happy and seeks to regain his money. Dimitri and Marcus are drawn into this fight because of their proximity to the original accident.
Once again, the mood of the book is set by the use of street talk by the characters, the description of the music they listen to, and the ongoing NCAA basketball tournament of the day. As with all Pelecanos books, the drug culture is strongly featured and appears to have gripped Dimitri pretty tightly now. This is the third of a series of four books, with the fourth title being Shame the Devil.
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This is my first time reading a pelecanos book, not even sure why I chose to read it. I have to admit, that I read the first 100 pages, sporadically over a week. Read morePublished on April 24 2004 by Sean
The Sweet Forever is a well done and engrossing crime novel. Pelecanos' story shifts from the Washington DC gang members to the corrupt cops to honest people just trying to get by... Read morePublished on Jan. 14 2003 by Elizabeth Hendry
This is a flat out terrific book. Pelecanos weaves an intriguing story about a search for some stolen drug money, a battle for control of a neighborhood and a number of characters... Read morePublished on July 13 2002 by brazos49
Just finshed Sweet Forever and it blew me away. This is not only the best crime fiction book I have ever read, but it is one of the best books period. Read morePublished on July 19 2001 by Mark Davis
"The Sweet Forever" is the first George P. Pelecanos book that I've read, but it won't be the last. Read morePublished on April 24 2001
Quite simply put this is the best novel I have read. I liked King Suckerman, but this book just blows it away. Read morePublished on Nov. 2 2000 by Tyler Durdan
I think Pelecanos is much, much more interested in his characters than the average suspense writer, and he knows that adulthood changes in point-of-view and lifestyle are much more... Read morePublished on Oct. 16 2000 by M.H.
Set in Washington DC in the last 1980s, this is a very well done cops and robbers genre detective novel - but then it is much more. Read morePublished on Aug. 5 2000 by R. Peterson


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How about this. If they meant blind, why didn't they use that term?
It is a game mechanic. It is in the glossary (and has been through 3.x).
They didn't use it though now did they?
They used sightless, which has connotation beyond "effectively blind" and has definitions (which I pulled from a Google search) that show context and meaning beyond the "simple" blind you keep pointing to. It want just one, but two and three of those "definitions" which emphasize a meaning beyond simply "effectively blind" to actually being unable or totally lacking the ability to see. Physical inability (lacking eyes or pathologically inability from disease) is what the several definitions I provided stated.
They didn't use blind or blinded, it being a mechanic that was easily available to reference in the same book, they used sightless. That should tell you something.
The vast majority of rules tell you what is allowed/what you can do. When the rules are silent on things, it is because they aren't allowed unless an exception is stated (as in using a standard action to make a move action). This is what an exception based rule set is. If they were to do it the other way (telling you what you cannot do) the game rules would literally be a collection like an encyclopedia set. Obviously that isn't a good idea for a game, for numerous reasons.
In order for an "action" or "event" to be allowed, you need to provide a rule to show you can do it. There is no such rule for using move to free or swift as a blanket statement (there might be a class ability or such that does in very narrow circumstances, I haven't looked as it isn't pertinent to the OPs question).
Basically if you want to do something you need to find the rule that allows you to do it. That is just the way the rules set is made/set up. And it is why the argument of " the rules don't tell me I can't " is so obnoxious, because once someone gets to that point you have to realize that the person saying that doesn't really understand the core fundamentals of the game mechanics/rules.
It absolutely isn't that the rules are "unclear" it is that people want something from the rules for whatever reason, and the rules don't allow it. And because there are no rules regarding it, they try to work in the action they want either with "it doesn't say I can't" or "they obviously meant to allow it and didn't say anything", when it is plain as day that the rules don't have any way to allow the action/event.
graystone wrote:
You obviously aren't playing the same game I am, because my PFRPG core rule book is definitely an exception based rule set, where general rules are stated and just about every spell, the majority of feats and class abilities, and pretty much every magic item is an exception to the general rules outlined in the game.
Is that the same game you are playing? Because my game runs pretty damn smooth with what we have in the book. It would take effort to not from what I've seen.
Hugo Rune wrote:
No the argument is it states it protects against combat effects. As it certainly reads as that is the implication.
Saying it protects against things beyond that is just taking the " well it makes sense to me" or thankfully not in this case, " it doesn't say it can't work that way".
There are NUMEROUS things that could make sense one way or another, but aren't intended to happen in the game.
You obviously don't like it, but that is the way it is, like so many other things people don't like about the rules. Someone not liking something isn't really a reason for the rules to all the sudden start working differently than written.
Duiker wrote:
Being less valuable is subjective. They can sunder your broom, they have to kill you to get rid of the ring, etc.
Also the broom is a bad comparison.
A better comparison is Wings of Flying. Slotted, command word activated,60' average maneuverability. 54k gold.
So the ring should at least be around there. Flying is powerful and can trivialize a good portion of encounters. It tends to be very expensive if not counting against the character's daily resources pool.
Melkiador wrote:
At this point the question is contentious enough to need a FAQ. I believe the wording of the mythic version is enough to convey the intent of one designer, but it's not explicit enough for some, and may not be the ruling of the entire design team.
I'd rather the PDT didn't waste their time with something as silly as this. There are definitely things more important to sus through.
SmiloDan wrote:
Which is great if you were actually using a scimitar, instead of something that allows you to add bonuses and abilities that work with scimitars.
Again, something wielded is not the same as being that something in all ways.
It is a spell, those normally have a 20/x2 unless specifically detailed otherwise. All the spell description does is state [b]wielded[/i] as. It doesn't say "treat this spell effect as a scimitar for all purposes" there is a distinct difference between those two. And there are spells and effects that do that unlike this one.
When I "wield" a defending weapon, it means I attack with it to gain the bonus. That is the games "definition" of wielding. It has nothing at all to do with the statistics of the weapon.
By stating it is "wielded" as a scimitar that means the spell effect has possible drawback of non proficiency penalties, as well as being able to benefit from spells/feats/abilities that would provide bonuses to said weapon.The game rules haven't told us to use the weapon specifications of a scimitar, and as it is an exception based rule set, we just do the bare minimum of what they tell us to. And as we have Dev explanation of what "wielded" means in context of the game, suggesting that the spell has stats of the weapon is actually going far beyond what the spell states it does.
alexd1976 wrote:
We've long since gotten past that, we are now on the "my shield should help vs touch attacks, it makes no sense it doesn't help" argument.
Avoron wrote:
You are ignoring that things can be subsets or "act" like something without being completely and totally the same. It happens constantly in the books, reference to something that is preexisting to save word count. That doesn't mean they are interchangeable.
Lord_Hyperion wrote:
As I recall it took quite some time before anything was said about Razor Coast. And it basically changed ownership to come out. I wasn't part of it, but I had kept an eye on it because our GM's wife loved pirate campaigns and we considering getting it as a gift.
Not getting the updates you want isn't treating you with "scorn and contempt" and disrespectful might even be a stretch. It is a kickstarter after all and the vast majority of them fail. Welcome to investing in a failed business opportunity that you thought was a great idea. It happens. It doesn't mean the person was out to get your money or being malicious, like you seem to be portraying them.
If it is a lot of money, you probably shouldn't have put it into a risky endeavour. Most anyone in business would tell you the same.
Not every warrior knows every move in the history of fighting.
Choosing maneuvers lets you customize how you fight, what your "style" is.
You are pretty much stating, the system is "rigid" because it makes you choose. News Flash: The game is all about making choices, quite literally everything you do every time you advance is a systematic choice, which in turn leads to more choices (feat chains, class abilities, you name it).
I can only imagine what your concept of "balanced" is if NOT having every option available and usable whenever you want it is, is unacceptable...
I can just state that it seems you are unwilling to see the benefits of the system, how it is balanced within itself (if not the core martial classes) and how your reasoning is rather flawed. Because making it the way you seem to want it would leave any semblance of "balance" weeping in the corner.
I'm by no means a fanboi of the system, I've been vocal about how it pushes too far past what the core rules have and so becomes a "bandaid" for a perceiced problem the writers see instead of a nice system that plays well in the game it was made for. But what you want is just... You are better off in another system honestly.
Jaunt wrote:
But not all initiators are doing "magic." For each discipline that is "magical" there is another that is basically "hit stuff do damage," so it doesn't have to be all crouching tiger hiddden matrix. You CAN make a character that is basically just "good with sword" like Conan out of PoW. And that is where the system is I guess "better", not just pure mechanically, but thematically.
Now, that isn't to say it isn't heads and shoulders better than core martials, as the second book started to introduce stuff that just plain makes core martials into NPC classes (the fighter basically becomes a dip class if you allow PoW). But by no means does it force martials into "poor man's casters" as you can still keep the flavor of "plain" swordsman by choosing the appropriate disciplines or even just particular maneuvers even in some of the more showy disciplines.
Saying PoW = wuxia campaign is taking and presenting the worst case scenario as the only option. And it isn't the only option. Conan is possible, knights of the round table are possible, and "basic" hero is possible. The options are there, but anyone complaining about the showy stuff isn't going to talk about that, because it doesn't help make their point. My only real complaints of the books have been 1) marked amount of power increase from the first book to the second and 2) it wasn't balanced against what exists in core rules, but what the writers believe martials should be like (AKA house rules so "martials don't suck like they do in core" to paraphrase the discussion). I believe that was something that should have been on the "label" so to speak.
Scythia wrote:
It's a method to provide easy moral justification to kill without any other reason than their existence. If you're running a simplistic game where the good guys wear white and the bad guys are ostentatious and puppy kicking evil, then undead are always evil works great. If you want to tell a more complex story, ignore any "always evil" undead or otherwise, in favour of characters that have depth and personality instead of just a (stereo)type.
Complex stories can be told with those "restrictions" easily enough. Case in point, the entirety of Golorian with removal of any and all plots with exceptions in them. There is a HUGE amount of material out there, hardly any of it is "simplistic" due to not having the special snowflakes.
Darth Grall wrote:
1) A GM should have a handle on the party, if the amount of gold gathered is going to be a "problem," adjust it. This is nothing new, and why it only happens at lower levels in our group (and less of an issue as we tend to use the gold gathered for the party, not an individual).
2) If wealth is going to break the game, the GM is probably not the person who should be running the game. A certain amount of system mastery is necessary and expected if you are to perform that role. Wealth is something that the GM pretty much has complete and total control of, there is no excuse to let it ruin the game.
3) Repeat offenders are a completely different and probably unrelated issue. That is an issue of abusing the standing rules vs wealth issue typically.
The Goat Lord wrote:
I actually have a graveyard as well. Occasionally people who are GM'ing will grab it to use them as NPC/BBEG's as they tend to be well optimized (and the group generally is as well), so published AP/adventures are pretty "bleh" most of the time and need some "spicing up".
As for out groups "death" ritual, pretty much at lower level if someone dies and we aren't going to be bringing them back, we split their gear up amongst the party. The character comes in at expected WBL, but is behind the group now.
cablop wrote:
Did you look at the Path of War as suggested above?
Isonaroc wrote:
A large red dragon's will save is +10. If you can't beat that your caster was built poorly and chose all the wrong spells. They don't even have SR at that point. Not saying it should be that easy, but if you are a caster who regularly deals with spells that allow saves, +10 isn't a particularly high bar. Especially if you are preparing for the encounter.
Crimeo wrote:
No you quoted things that say you get to to turn into the shape of a creature of that type. That is ALL it said. You are inferring the type despite the fact it is never mentioned to explicitly happen.
Usually niche stuff that isn't covered by the core rules.
So mostly classes & rule sets, only occasionally adventures (though I did buy Way of the Wicked and contributed to the Snow White KS that should be finishing up soon). We run in a homebrew world/campaign so usually it is just mining other material for things to be brought in or maybe as a basis for something we are working on, to be ripped apart and take the bits and pieces we find useful or like.
As for balance, it is in the eye of the beholder. A good GM can make anything work really. Some 3PP items are better balanced than Paizo products at times. But the reality is, even for Paizo. The more material you make, the more power creep will occur. It is the nature of the game. And the whole reason these people are in business is to sell more material.
Jeff Jutzi wrote:
Can anyone explain the rash of 4+ year old necro's lately?
Berti Blackfoot wrote:
Depends on the type of Dispel used. It could be used to target one specific use of Memory Modification or just target the subject and attempt to dispel one of the effects on them. Something like a Detect magic would let the dispel'er know how many effects were on the target and what school they are.
The blanket Dispel would possibly cause the other modifications to "fail" if they were chained together as they don't make sense anymore.
alexd1976 wrote:
Not particularly, there are numerous storylines where memories are altered just to have the person find out later on after the effect was dispelled/removed they were deceived to whatever ends.
Making it instant would mean there was no recourse to "fix" important memories and someone ends up completely screwed.
DM_Blake wrote:
Comatose characters FTW.
Spermy The Cat wrote:
Similar effects would be things like Boots of Haste, weapons with the Speed property, etc. Basically things that refer to haste in some capacity. Not anything that gives an additional attack "period". I'm sure you've looked it up, it works and has worked like this forever (even in 3.x IIRC). If that isn't enough for the GM, just point out you'd like a list of House Rules made and printed out to refer back to. That way you (and everyone else) can build your characters appropriately and not worry about working towards something to be rudely awakened to the fact they won't be following the actual rules of the game again.
Be nice about it, but make sure they know they are absolutely not playing by the same rules the game is. There should be some accountability for the GM, make them own up to it and make sure everyone at the table is aware of it as well. If they don't want to allow it, you can fight it or play along, but everyone involved should know what to expect. House rules should absolutely be told in advance, before a game is started. It avoids confusion and prevents table issues, as a GM your friend slipped up, make sure they know it and will keep it from happening again.
Asking for Errata for something that works and is in no way confusing... The rules say it won't stack with similar effects (meaning Haste effects) which is a suite of abilities. Other effects can grant those abilities piecemeal and not be Haste effects, and in so doing stacking with Haste (which is the case with your question). The burden of proof should not be on you to prove it works (as it does) but on them to provide something showing it doesn't, or else own up to it "just don't like it".
InVinoVeritas wrote:
Well then, I dislike Rule 0.
It gives crappy GMs justification for ignoring rules that are part of the basic assumptions that the game is written and balanced on, then forcing it down other people's throats in guise of a more "enjoyable" game or some such.
Do people actually not read store bought APs in advance so they know is what it is going on before running them?
Most of the "complaints" seem to be of the "oh crap, I read that out loud" type. Which would be a non issue if you took any sort of preparation prior to running, and read ahead a few pages. Given the depth of character and plot involved with APs, there is so much more information you need to have a handle on versus "normal" module.
Daniel Myhre wrote:
If I know the answer, I'm not of the opinion I should do the leg work for someone who hasn't got the time or can't be bothered to actually research themselves unless they continue to be adamant about it for several days. At which point it becomes apparent they truly don't get it and won't do it themselves and it becomes more time efficient to just prove them wrong than argue.
thorin001 wrote:
I am 100% "okay" with them spending time making material that keeps them in business opposed to fixing old stats blocks because people don't like an FAQ and want to call them "inconsistent"(to put it politely) for not doing so. It isn't like it would help, the people would just find something else to complain about once they did, all the way up until it was reversed. That is what people are like.
I'd actually suggest Oracle as well. There was a build using the Diefic Obediances, Mystery Cultist and Nature mystery IIRC. Push CHA for defenses and spell casting. Use spells for combat/utility as needed (spell pages).
The original build was maybe from Walter's Guide to Deific Obediances?
My build (a reconstruction of a 2E character for 3.x) was an Angelkin Aasimir 7 Nature Oracle/10 Mystery cultist/3 Oracle. (1) Noble Scion [War, CHA to Int], (3) Celestial Obedience [Arshea], (5) Power Attack, (7) Furious Focus, (9) Blessed (11+) open feats.
Mystery Cultist:
Medium BAB from both classes (14/9/4), 9/10 casting from Mystery Cultist (19th caster at 20), 6/6/12 saves. CHA to casting, initiative, CMD, as DEX and Armor to AC.
Divine Favor(1)/Might(4), Blessing of Fervor(4), Bestow Grace of the Champion(7) for more difficult opponents. Otherwise spells for utility as wanted/needed.
Lune wrote:
Ioun Stones weren't something I was unsure of, more we had people stating they would merge when polymorphed and continue to provide effects. I'm of the opinion they would still provide effects but would not merge into your form, just stay floating over your head. You aren't touching them, they aren't taking up a slot on your body, but flying willy nilly around your head.
The gloves I believe are use activated so wouldn't continue to function after polymorphed.
M1k31 wrote:
1) It removes part of the "fun" of the game (rolling dice).
2) it involves more calculations (which Paizo said they wanted to remove to streamline the game).
MeanMutton wrote:
Who would probably be justified in doing it, to the type of players who try to weasel absolutely every advantage out of the rules and get anything they can for "nothing."
It is a two way street, sorry.
There is a reason the vast majority of people don't GM, if players had to deal with themselves in a game they were running... they'd probably be tempted to do such things too.
Jiggy wrote:
It's also as good an argument as bringing up minutia to prove a point, in a game that typically has to ignore such details in order to function even remotely well.
"I have all these real world possibilities to show how could maybe do it in game!!!"
"Damn shame the game doesn't work like the real world isn't it?"
Jiggy wrote:
Let us take the discussion where it really is headed.
Is paying an additional 3000gp for your weapon, justification for bypassing and trivializing numerous encounters, plot points and various other situations in the game?
My gut is saying no.
Shiroi wrote:
People hate misfires on the guns, most will not be interested in a class based around not working as a "feature" unfortunately. And if the abilities scale better than "normal" you can bet someone will figure out how to break it to take advantage of it.
Wilder has a mechanic that may fit your needs.
It doesn't matter, as the game deals with mechanics.
The fact that it is possibly a mental action, isn't enough to pass the Paralyze's exclusion requirement of purely mental. For it to work, it NEEDS to be a purely mental action. As it is not defined as a purely mental action, it cannot be used.
The fact you are making assumptions about a RAW mechanic... You know the old saying right? And that points to the main problem you have in this discussion. Don't make assumptions. Don't dismiss the fact that the spell actually references a physical based skill as "convoluted" to make your point some how more important. No mention of mental is mentioned, but you say it is. If it were, we wouldn't be having this discussion.
It could be all mental, it could be mostly mental, it could be just a tiny bit mental, it could be all physical, mostly physical, or a tiny bit physical. But it is not, by game rules or mechanics, a purely mental action. Other abilities are specifically called out as purely mental, those get to be used. An action that isn't defined, doesn't get past the requirement check, and so doesn't get to be used.
It is a stringent check, in an exception based game. If it isn't quantified, you cannot say it is or isn't. As such, it fails to meet the exception test. As a mechanic, we can ignore or include as needed, as was done in the writing of this spell and the status effect.
By being undefined, it is not a purely mental action and so the Paralyze write up keeps it from functioning. This is a pure logic problem, explicitly categorized "purely mental" actions work. Uncategorized actions don't make the cut unless you assume things, which is what you are doing, by your own admission.
That is what they call "reading into the rules"...
If there is a dress code that requires you to wear a tuxedo, you don't get to go in if you are wearing a T-shirt with the image of a tux on it. They are not the same thing. And that is the argument you are making.
Kchaka wrote:
In what ways does it make the game more "interesting"?
At best it seems to be "creative thinking" on how to avoid legitimate penalties enforced by status effects entirely intended to not allow what people are trying to say they are being allowed to do with no rules backing their opinion.
Also, it isn't supernatural. If we are going to discuss rules, words and terms are important. How they are used in the write ups and wording of effect, doubly so. Broken is doing something that isn't "intended" and or, doing something beyond what it states.
Allowing something to work as a purely mental, when it is not stated to be so explicitly, is at best bending the rules, and quite often "breaking" the rules. It may not be "overpowered", but that doesn't mean it isn't using it in a broken way.
Callum wrote:
Adding extra words or reading into it is also as much of an issue, and part of why people would not agree with your interpretation.
The real crux of the issue is the purely mental aspect. The game doesn't make any mention of the spell being so, and refers to physical checks when using it. To me, this shows it to at least not be purely mental. And yes, while it doesn't say it is physical, it most assuredly doesn't say it is purely mental. And that is what we need (logically and rules wise) to get it to work while under the paralyzed status.
alexd1976 wrote:
Number of instances you've provided actual rules quotes to back up that Fly is purely mental: ZERO
Number of instances you've provided rules that imply that Fly is purely mental: ZERO
Number of examples from published material that might help to backup your creative interpretation of the rules (admittantly a stretch, but better than nothing): ZERO
Yet here we are going back and forth on the subject for some reason.
Shadowlords wrote:
Actually, I think the point is, your example is horrible and doesn't work. The demilich is immune.
Hold undead specifically states the undead is immobile. And so, magical flight or not, held in place similar to the effect of Hold Person on a living creature, which should be some more food for thought... But you will probably dismiss that as well.
Rogar Stonebow wrote:
The fly spell doesn't give you magical wings that you use physically.
Nor does it explicitly state it is a purely mental action, but it does refer to (and therefore connect itself with physical action) the Fly skill. The game rules implicate that clearly. More so than the creative thinking of it somehow being a strictly mental action.
It is an exception based rule set. If something is a thing, it is stated to be such OR stated to be an exception of something explicitly. There is no rules support of the Fly spell being a purely mental action at all.
Shadowlords wrote:
Insanity does that to you, or so I hear.
alexd1976 wrote:
But the fact that the rules indicate you need to make checks involving physical attributes at all, it strongly implies that it isn't purely mental. If it were, would it not be based of mental attributes, like every other action that is mental?
To make a solid and reasonable argument, the onus is on you to show that it is without a doubt a purely mental action. Not by showing there isn't anything saying it isn't, but by showing there are rules indicating it is (the whole system is exception based after all). Even if tangentially. Saying it is purely mental "because" doesn't hold water. The rules point to it being at least somewhat physical due to referring to the fly checks. It may not be flapping your arms, it may just be small body movements and effort exerted. But it still refers back to checks influenced by physical attributes.
That doesn't sound "purely mental" to me... Sorry.


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|Jul 17, 1928
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|Publication number
|Parsons Stuart W
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July 17. 1928. 1,677,684
5. w. PARSONS TOOL FOR CUTTING BOX STRAPPING AND THE LIKE Filed Nov. 17,1927
Patented July 17, 1928.
STUART w. rAnsoNs. OF NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR To THE STANLEY worms, OF NEW BRITAIN, CoNNECTICUT,TA-CORPORATION OF CONNECTICUT.
TooL FOR CUTTING BOX STEAPPING ND THE LIKE.
Application filed Novemberl'i', 1927, v Serial No. 233,862.
The practice of applying metal straps or hands about bales, boxes or other forms of packages has grown to very large proportions, and it is of importance to protect those who have to handle the straps or the packages to which they are applied from being cut or scratched by sharp corners which would be present if the ends ofthe straps were square or cut on an angle. end, the present invention contemplates an improved tool for cutting or trimming the strap ends to a shape which will avoid personal injury.
The aim of the present invention is to provide an improved, simple and effective tool by means of. which metal straps or metal strips, such as are applied to shipping boxes and the like, may be readily cut to length and at the same time have their ends trimmed, the tools being arranged to give each end of thestrap a curved contour which is free of projections, burrs o-r cor- 11ers so thatanyone handling the strap or applying the same to a box will not be injured thereby.
A further aim of the invention is to pro{ vide a'tool by means of Wl1lC l1' l'/WO strap ends may be cut and trimmed at one operation. I
A further aim of theinvention is to provide an improved tool of this sort which may be very readily manipulated, aud the cutting members of which maybe easily and economically maintained in a sharp condition so that they will make cleancuts.
Other objects will be in part obvious and in part pointed out, more in detail herein!- after. f
The invention accordingly consists in the features of construction, combination of elements and arrangement of parts. which will be exemplified in the construction here inafter set forth and the scope of the application of which will be indicated in the ap.
pended claims. 7
In the accompanying drawings, wherein is shown, for illustrative purposes, one of the embodiments which the present invention may take: Figure 1 is a side elevational view of the Fig. 4 is a horizontal sectional view To this improved tool with portions thereof in seotion;
Fig. 2 is a sectional view taken substantially on line 2-2 of F ig.- 1;
Fig. 3 is a top plan view;
i I v taken substantially on hne 44 of Fig. 1, the dies being omitted;
the bottom of the punch; and
Pg. 6 isa View showing the manner in which, the straps are cut to length and the ends rounded by my improved tool. 1 Referring to the drawings in detail, my
' improved toolhas a head 10 from which extends a handle 11. Pivoted to-the head is a, cooperating handle 12 by means of which the punch 13 is moved up and down in the head! This punch cooperates with a pair of dies 14. The handles arenormally urged apart so as to raise the punch by means ofa spring9. I
The head 10 has a throughvertical opening 10 which is .generally oblong in ross section. Extendinginwardly from the'forward wall of the head is a horizontal slot 15'adapted to receive the strap to be cut. Thelower wall or edge of this slot extends forwardly so as to form a shelf or lip 16 whereby entry of the'strap into the slot is facilitated. The punch 13 is located for sliding movement in grooves or guideways 19 provided in the front and rear walls of the vertical; opening 10'. The lower end of this punch is provided with a semi-Circular recess 17 "at each side so as to form generally semi-circular cutting edges 18. It will Fig. 5 is aperspective view looking at be observed. particularly from Fig. 1,; that the bottom face of the punch is-inclined at an angle to the plane of movement of the punch and to the plane of the dies 14 in order to provide the necessary. rake. This face is flat and is relatively small and, there'- fore, the punch may be readily resharpened' when necessary by merely holding this face of the punch against a grinding wheel.
' Below the slot 15 and extending into the opening 10 are two bosses 25 having at their upper ends generally circular seats in which are mountedjthe respective dies 14. These dies are in the form of flat round disks having radii equal to the radii of the cutting edges 18 of the punch. The dies are located so tnat the space between the same accurately conforms to'the shape of the active face of the punch whereby substantially one-half of the peripheral edge of each die will cooperate with a respective cutting edge 18 of the punch when the latter is lowered. These use, the screw 26 holding that die in place may be loosened somewhat and the die turned 180 thereby bringing the other half of the cutting edge into operative relation to the punch. When the entire upper edge of the die has been worn, the die can be inverted so as to use the edge of the opposite face. When both cutting edges of the die become worn, the die can be very easily removed and sharpened by merely holding the same against a grinding wheel. Thus, these dies have very long lives and the necessity of frequently resharpening the same is avoided.
The operation of the tool will be readily understood from the foregoing description taken in connection with the accompanying drawings. The device may be either employed for trimming the ends of the strap which has already been cut off or for cutting off a strap of the desired length from a roll or strip of metal. It will be observed, particularly from Fig. 6, that when a length of strap is cut off from a coil, the rear end of the cut-off strap, as well as what will now be the forward end of the coiled strip from which the strap has been cut oil", will both be given a round or semi-circular contour. "he punch cuts out a blank 30 of the shape shown in this figure.
It is, of course, understood that while I have described my improved tool in connection with its use for cutting box and similar strapping, the tool has a more general application; as it may be employed for cutting metal strips or metal straps of different kinds for various uses.
As many changes could be made in the ew/zest ahove construction and many apparently.
widely different embodiments of this invention could be made without departing from the scope thereof, it is intended that all matter contained in the above description or shown in the accompanying drawing shall be interpreted as illustrative and not in a limiting sense. I
lt is also to be understood that thejlanguage used in the'following claims is intended to cover all of the generic and speiiic features of the invention herein described and all statements of the scope of the invention which, as a matter of language, might be said to fall therebetween.
I claim as my invention:
1. A tool for cutting box strapping and the like comprising a head having a strap receiving slot, a handle on which said head is carried, a punch mounted for reciproca- 1 place whereby said disk may be angularly adpistable or reversible end for end to bring new cutting edges thereon into play.
2. A tool for cutting box strapping and the like comprising a head having a trans verse strap receiving slot, a handle carrying said head, a pair of dies carried by said head below said slot, a punch provided with a cutting portion corresponding to the space between said dies, said dies and punch being arranged to cut from a strapa piece with semi-circularly concave side edges, and a handle for reciprocating said punch.
3. A tool for cutting box strapping and the like comprising a head having a transverse strap receiving slot, a handle carrying said. head, a pair of dies carried by said head below said slot and eachcomprising a cylindrical disk, screws for adjustably and removably securing said disks in place, a punch having its lower face inclined to the plane of said dies and provided with a cutting portion corresponding to the space between said dies, and a handle pivoted to said head for reciprocating said punch.
STUART w. PARSONS.
|Citing Patent
|Filing date
|Publication date
|Jun 20, 1947
|Jan 8, 1952
|R H Bishop Company
|Hand metal stamping tool
|Sep 27, 1948
|May 6, 1952
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|U.S. Classification
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|International Classification
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[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GERONIMO-3764?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=12564935#action_12564935 ] Vamsavardhana Reddy commented on GERONIMO-3764: ----------------------------------------------- Completed: At revision: 617648 in branches\2.0 and trunk (2.1) o EARConfigBuilder should close modules when deployment fails due to already existing configuration. Otherwise deployer leaves temp files behind. > DeployerReaper fails to cleanup the temp directories left behind by deployer > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: GERONIMO-3764 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GERONIMO-3764 > Project: Geronimo > Issue Type: Bug > Security Level: public(Regular issues) > Components: deployment > Affects Versions: 2.0.1, 2.0.2, 2.0.x, 2.1 > Reporter: Vamsavardhana Reddy > Assignee: Vamsavardhana Reddy > Fix For: 2.0.x, 2.1 > > Attachments: GERONIMO-3764-2.0.patch, GERONIMO-3764-deploymentutil.patch > > > Deployer creates a temporary directory and cleans up the directory once deployment operation is completed. When deletion of a temp dir fails, the deployer leaves it upto DeployerReaper to cleanup the directory later on. DeployerReaper is failing to cleanup these directories as only the dir name (not the complete path) is available to it. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.
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