Creatures and Tools

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Definitions of Creatures not found.

Tools and creatures are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Tools" instead a noun "Creatures".

Definitions of Creatures not found.

Creatures and tools are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Creatures" instead a noun "Tools".

This trope is all about creatures (humanoid or otherwise) who are denoted as "people" by their use of accessories such as tools, regardless of the characters being otherwise nude.

Source: Tools of Sapience
They can still replicate life-shaped tools and creatures, but only in a ritualized manner, much like using a cookbook for doing advanced chemistry when you don't know anything about chemistry, but still having it work.

Source: Low Culture, High Tech
Creatures without arms handle tools just fine, though the game suggests you get arms anyway (and, indeed, the Creature phase actually gets kind of hard without em).

Source: Invisible Anatomy

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