User blog comment:Essie Essex/Organizing Categories/@comment-5607198-20130731044715

also, the further weapon subsets: stop

the arc pylon is not supposed to be in the weapon category. It is a defensive piece of technology, and their already exists a tag for technology. It is what we tag the in-universe technology that corvo interacts with, but does not carry in his pants.

all the grenades and mines are under "gadgets" because that is what the game puts them under. the swords, bows, and guns are under "weapons" for much the same reason. I can see seperating the gadgets into subsets, since there are now multiples of each, but wouldn't "thrown" be better than "ranged"? I'd also use "mines" as the replacement for the cumbersome "proximity weapons"

In fact, you could just make "grenades" and "mines" the sections, and then we wouldn't have anymore confuison, like adding the Arc Pylon or Music Box.