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<blockquote data-quote="steeldragons" data-source="post: 5986957" data-attributes="member: 92511">Oh for goodness sake, avin.I think for anyone who knows me 'round ENworld, it can safely be said I am, by no stretch a &quot;gamist&quot; or concerned with &quot;gamism&quot;. However, this is, after all, a GAME and I do not require stringent &quot;real world reality&quot; in my 'fantasy world game.&quot;THAT said, someone already used the example of an Olympic swimmer most handily. If they win a race and/or break a world record, it is HIGHLy unlikely they can climb out of the pool, jump right back in and automatically win a race or break a world record a second time in five minutes or less. But I bet you anything they could still swim faster than you or I, and/or keep doing laps at a &quot;normal pace&quot; for some time.Or, for a purely physical strength example, someone who does that...what's it called?...when you just stand and lift ungodly amounts of weight on a barbell...Doing that and then doing it again right after? Probably not or not too many times...but could they go over to a weight machine or bench press and keep lifting/pressing lesser amounts of weight (which would undoubtedly still put me to shame) like it was nothing? I bet they could.So there's two &quot;real world&quot; examples for you.The explanation that a trained fighter could swing his sword whenever he had to throughout a &quot;day&quot; (i.e. the waking active period between when he sleeps/rests and gets to sleep/rest again) and a few times a day push himself beyond what he can normally do and/or finds (or causes) an opening/edge in a particular battle to cause more damage (or knock them down or whatever) is really pretty basic, believable and makes sense in the context of a heroic fantasy tale. My &quot;verisimilitude&quot;/immersion/whatever you want to call it is not going to be broken by this. And in closing...HALFLINGS! ;P lol.--SD</blockquote>

[QUOTE="steeldragons, post: 5986957, member: 92511"] Oh for goodness sake, avin. I think for anyone who knows me 'round ENworld, it can safely be said I am, by no stretch a "gamist" or concerned with "gamism". However, this is, after all, a GAME and I do not require stringent "real world reality" in my 'fantasy world game." THAT said, someone already used the example of an Olympic swimmer most handily. If they win a race and/or break a world record, it is HIGHLy unlikely they can climb out of the pool, jump right back in and automatically win a race or break a world record a second time in five minutes or less. But I bet you anything they could still swim faster than you or I, and/or keep doing laps at a "normal pace" for some time. Or, for a purely physical strength example, someone who does that...what's it called?...when you just stand and lift ungodly amounts of weight on a barbell...Doing that and then doing it again right after? Probably not or not too many times...but could they go over to a weight machine or bench press and keep lifting/pressing lesser amounts of weight (which would undoubtedly still put me to shame) like it was nothing? I bet they could. So there's two "real world" examples for you. The explanation that a trained fighter could swing his sword whenever he had to throughout a "day" (i.e. the waking active period between when he sleeps/rests and gets to sleep/rest again) and a few times a day push himself beyond what he can normally do and/or finds (or causes) an opening/edge in a particular battle to cause more damage (or knock them down or whatever) is really pretty basic, believable and makes sense in the context of a heroic fantasy tale. My "verisimilitude"/immersion/whatever you want to call it is not going to be broken by this. And in closing...HALFLINGS! ;P lol. --SD [/QUOTE]

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