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<blockquote data-quote="The Crimson Binome" data-source="post: 6290805" data-attributes="member: 6775031">The major difference being that Gatorade and coffee/tea are fairly cheap, where a healing potion costs enough to feed a small village for a week. I mean, I get that you can make full use of abstraction to hide the causality and make it less weird if you've already made the decision to go with post-hoc narrative justification, but can you see how the alternative makes sense for people who start with an objective reality as a premise? Why it's more satisfying to some people for a magical potion to have an obvious magical effect, so that using it confers the same degree of certainty to both the player and the character, and why it's important that a thing be defined as it occurs rather than in retrospect?If you don't mind another scenario, what would happen in the first situation you described if you didn't have a healing potion on hand? The player knows that the character has only a few hit points left, and the character knows that he's un-wounded but can't complete his customary ritual. Would the character then decide to not press the fight? Or would you decide, in retrospect, that this time those wounds are real injury and you can't go on because you might die?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="The Crimson Binome, post: 6290805, member: 6775031"] The major difference being that Gatorade and coffee/tea are fairly cheap, where a healing potion costs enough to feed a small village for a week. I mean, I get that you can make full use of abstraction to hide the causality and make it less weird if you've already made the decision to go with post-hoc narrative justification, but can you see how the alternative makes sense for people who start with an objective reality as a premise? Why it's more satisfying [I]to some people[/I] for a magical potion to have an obvious magical effect, so that using it confers the same degree of certainty to both the player and the character, and why it's important that a thing be defined [I]as[/I] it occurs rather than in retrospect? If you don't mind another scenario, what would happen in the first situation you described if you [I]didn't[/I] have a healing potion on hand? The player knows that the character has only a few hit points left, and the character knows that he's un-wounded but can't complete his customary ritual. Would the character then decide to not press the fight? Or would you decide, in retrospect, that [I]this time[/I] those wounds are real injury and you can't go on because you might die? [/QUOTE]

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