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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 6541878" data-attributes="member: 4937">I subvert all this by having the in game physics of the world be very much not the physics of the real world.  So, if we get into an argument about physics, I can pull things like the following:a) Well, really, mass has nothing to do with gravity.  It's just that the earth spirits hate to see things soaring unnaturally above the ground, so they pull things back down.b) No, kinetic energy is linear with velocity.  You can drop balls into clay to prove this.c) Actually, heat is a substance.  This was proved when a famous dwarf named Rumford carried out an experiment to determine the exact caloric content of iron by grinding it in a bath until it ceased to heat the water.d) Well, energy and mass are not conserved in the universe.  You see there are all these little wormholes, if you will, between the prime and the elemental planes and they are always exchanging small amounts of material.e) No really, there are only 4 elements.  Sodium and sulfur and nitrogen are compounds.  Hense, the chemistry behind making explosives is a bit more complex than just looking up the formula for gunpowder in this world.f) Flies really do spontaneously generate from rotten meat.Or really anything else.  Saves me no end of argument.  Back when I remember rules arguments they always seemed to be about how infravision worked, how much aerobic exercise you could engage in before becoming tired, whether you could reasonably tunnel through things with a magic sword and enough willpower, and so forth.</blockquote>

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