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So... Imagine two action declarations: 1) I want to quietly pick the lock, by using my lockpicks. 2) I want to enter the kitchen unnoticed, by quietly picking the lock. Absent a specific rules system, both of these are cogent enough action declarations. Both have goal and approach...

I can haz Holy Avenger?

It is as if you made statements about my approach to play without knowing my approach to play. Your entertainment isn't my priority. If you stop defending it, I will have no need to speak to it.

From what I have read, there isn't a single answer to that. Publishers will have to shop around among smaller distributors, and maybe one of them will end up getting most of the business.

This all started with you asking if it would be weird to have folks talking about the effects of Special Relativity while on a FTL craft. Thus: the hole that Special Relativity saying you cannot go faster than light doesn't speak to what happens when you warp space around you.

Well, what are we aiming for - plausible for a fiction, or good science? They are in no way the same. Good science does not follow the rule of cool, and so is most often pretty boring, compared to what might be plausible in a fiction.

"This is a thing that people get paid a lot of money to do professionally, and I have not been involved with that profession," would be a clue. "This is a thing covered in graduate level classes in university, and I didn't even take bachelor's level courses in the subject," would be another...

You are a tiny, tiny bit of mass added to the whole back at the event horizon. At that point you are inside what the universe sees as the black hole. And nobody knows what happens at the singularity - I mean that pretty literally, that's a "dividing by cosmic zero" level of undefined. We...

With respect, I'm not so sure it is that clear at all. I think authoring can be presented such that it is an activity one can become accustomed to without breaking immersion. The primary element in not breaking immersion to author would likely be that the authoring should in response to...

Your belief, though, doesn't impact whether that bit is good science. Gargantua, the black hole in the film, per Kip Thorne is about a hundred-million solar masses - of a size we'd call a "supermassive black hole". The tides at the event horizon are not large, and one could totally step across...

I was missing the point. I still don't really agree with what I now understand to be your point. It isn't all that hard to figure out if you're gonna gaff it.

Internet discussion, however, is under no onus to keep to commonly observed phenomena, and tends to drive to polar extremes.

The separation becomes obvious when you think about how the game exists within a real world - and the contract of the table does not apply to those not at the table. There's about 8 billion people to whom it does not apply. It only becomes valid to those who have agreed to play. Like, if I'm...

Well, "need" is doing some heavy lifting there. In fiction, no outside force MAKES the author(s) have to jump into anything. The authors are the only ones who make choices or impose restrictions. The authors choose to make the plot dependent on details. It follows then, that there is no...

Myth! https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/coriolis-effect/ https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/can-somebody-finally-sett/

I don't read it that way. I feel he said that, no, the GM doesn't have to accept every player suggestion, but it is good for the GM to have space from which they can consider player suggestions seriously, before ruling yes or no. There is "The GM predetermines it all, no questions will be...

I'd say that either 1 or 2, taken as stated and absolute, would be a non-starter for me. I would not accept that position from my employer, much less be something I want in a leisure entertainment activity. The third seems to me more like wishful thinking on the GM's part - the amount of...

I think that's an overstatement. In the simplest form - I don't generally run games online. The digital world is not a source of infinite players for me.

I am not sure about this. When we speak of "THE social contract" on this site, we are usually talking specifically about the social contract around the game you're in. That contract does not kick in until you accept the offer. It cannot exact a toll if you reject the offer, any more than a...

You stipulated, "You like long tedious rules debates. My group does not. " You only know my behavior on internet message boards, and chose to extrapolate that to game and table management. I'm making clear that this is inappropriate. Mature adults, whenever possible, pick appropriate times...