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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tony Vargas" data-source="post: 7371762" data-attributes="member: 996">Both should get a free pass, is the point, because it's a fantasy world. Just because a hero's antics in a fantasy world aren't supernatural, doesn't mean he's facing the same natural limits as an ordinary person (or even an extraordinary one) IRL. A cornerstone of science is that the same physical laws apply to everyone and to everything, everywhere in the universe.  It's positively axiomatic, today, but it's relatively new.In a fantasy world, it'd sound stupid:  no, the same laws don't apply to a wizard or a king or a hero or an angel as apply to me, how could you think such a thing?Rather, the line is just common experience.  An ordinary person can't fly.  A flying person is supernatural.   An ordinary person can jump, a jumping person is natural.  From the point of view of an inhabitant of the fantasy world, an aircraft, even a hot-air balloon, is supernatural - maybe if the airplane would just flap its wings, it'd be natural, though (?).  And a roc, a bird as big as an airplane?  Perfectly natural it should fly, /it's a bird/.  A person flying around would be supernatural - wizards do it all the time.  A hero jumping over a castle wall, though is still a person, jumping, and people can jump, it's not unnatural, though it is extraordinary, maybe even superhuman. The line isn't between magic and mundane or between heroic-fantasy supernatural and RL-physics 'natural.'  It's between the mundane (RL reality) and the fantastic (FRPG reality).  That's a clear line and there's no crossing it. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />  Everything in the game belongs on it's side of the line, that's the standard it needs to be held to.</blockquote>

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