[Torg] Possibility Spending

[Travis James Hall]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: torg-bounces at justintimeadventures.com 
> [mailto:torg-bounces at justintimeadventures.com] On Behalf Of 
> Benjamin Grant
> Sent: Monday, 10 November 2008 1:56 AM
> To: torg at justintimeadventures.com
> Subject: RE: [Torg] Possibility Spending
> 
> >>-----Original Message-----
> >>From: torg-bounces at justintimeadventures.com [mailto:torg-
> >>bounces at justintimeadventures.com] On Behalf Of Travis James Hall
> >>Sent: Sunday, November 09, 2008 9:23 AM
> >>To: torg at justintimeadventures.com
> >>Subject: RE: [Torg] Possibility Spending
> >>
> >>
> >>"When attempting an action, you may spend one Possibility 
> and roll the
> >>die
> >>again, adding the number rolled to the final die roll. No 
> more than one
> >>Possibility may be spent on any one action." This passage 
> would seem to
> >>indicate that a Possibility spent in this manner is spent on the
> >>action. If
> >>it isn't, of course, then this expenditure may be repeated 
> as much as a
> >>player desires on the one action. You obviously disagree with that.
> 
> Yep, I do disagree.  The passage seems to indicate that the 
> possibility is spent attempting the action, NOT that the
> possibility is spent ON the action.

Right... So your argument is that one sentence uses the word "attempting"
while the other uses the word "on", so clearly they can't be referring to
the same concept? This despite the fact that the context in which the word
"attempting" is used is an indication of timing? "*When* attempting an
action[...]" Despite that "spent attempting an action" is a phrasing that
only you have used, not the rules?

You're reaching. More, I say your reaching is clearly unjustified. Your
arguments, here, fail even to reach the level of the semantic, for semantics
is the study of meaning in communication, and you examine only words without
taking into account the meaning which they, as a whole, indicate.

> It does not
> appear to me that either of us has offered anything that 
> seems to be chaning the other person's mind on this.

You hold too high an opinion of yourself, that you assume I care whether
your mind is changed.

Travis Hall