Recent content by Umbran

Not that I'm aware of, no. Remember - sales data is proprietary business information. Other people having that data can impact the business. For drivethru to release it would be a breach of trust that would likely make sellers abandon the platform in droves. I think that there's one...

So, that's not necessarily a GM's job - it is a style choice. Many GMs like to take that on, but it is not a requirement to run a game. The FR GM in question did not claim they'd work backstories into play. They were not violating an agreement by not doing so.

I guess I wasn't clear. I, personally, here and now, cannot pass through one without the other. I, personally, here and now, am restricted to motion governed by Einsteinian Relativity. But I, personally, here and now, don't have a time machine. Time machines, in general concept, can violate...

One of these was in the FR, and yeah, I kind of recognized that as a likelihood for that reason. I positioned it as, "This is why I am in the area the adventure would take place in, and it is available for the GM to use, if they want." The other cases weren't in FR, but followed the general...

Mostly not. Companies are by no means required to release sales data, and there are some good reasons for them to not make such information public.

Mod note: I see a number of folks here getting a little testy, rude, insulting, and so on. Being a jerk isn't going to have much payoff here, folks. Dial it back, please and thanks.

The last several times I have tried to use the setting, as presented, as a solid basis for my characters, I found that the bits I'd chosen to connect to were bits that the GM decided they weren't going to refer to, pretty much at all. My connections to the setting were relevant only to my...

So, as a player, putting me on the spot and saying, "You must come as a blank slate, and do all your character creation right now," is a great way for me to end up with a character I'm not really interested in playing, and that probably won't be all that interesting for others to play alongside...

Well... Since we are talking about weird things like time travel.... If we are, in fact, a hologram or a simulation (two kinda weird, but technically possible cosmologies), then "height" may, in fact, be an illusion.

Not quite. Einstein's Special Relativity tells us, in effect, that there is no inertial frame of reference in which physical laws of the universe differ. If you are looking at two different frames of reference, and you account for the (constant) velocity difference between them, the laws of...

In reality? Quite possibly. But also, proving a negative like, "there is no way to travel backwards in time" is incredibly difficult.

Kickpuncher!

Well, what do you mean by "without any time passing"? Because, if we are thinking of this as spacetime, then time never passes - we pass through time, just like we pass through space. Right now, I have some control over how I move through space. A car is a machine that does not...

We can add to that an element of how some GMs do not want players inventing anything in the scene. Players asking questions are then looking for what they can, and cannot, use in declaring their actions.

Um, no, that's not anything like what Einstein said. In physics terms you are close to "not even wrong". Einstein recognized all motion in as a vector in a 4-d spacetime, that could have components both across your field and towards/away from you.