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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Manbearcat" data-source="post: 6068573" data-attributes="member: 6696971">I beg your pardon.  I guess I wasn't as thorough as I thought.  I was trying to pin down Obryn's use of the term with respect to the thread that he had created (and my understanding of it).  As such, given that the thread is about "Fixing the Fighter", that definition was devised in that context;  Mundane classes (specifically the Fighter) do not have extra-physical phenomenon at their beck and call.  Therefore, fiat (shared imaginary space alternation) must be granted to them external to their locus of control (in the metagame) as the supernatural (where fiat exists organically) is not within their internal locus of control.  They do not possess:Omniscience - Divinations or the ability to converse/barter with extra-planar creatures.Transmutations - The ability to be anywhere they wish or turn the world on its head (literally).Conjurations - They cannot bring forth something from nothing (or to obey the 1st Law, something brought forth from somewhere else).Enchantments - The ability to make malleable other creatures' will or outright steal it.Etc, etc.These things all work just fine from 1st person perspective and allow casters the benefit of shared imaginary space affecting fiat as standard issue.  The metagame and 1st person perspective is married in the caster classes as it is inherent to spellcasting.  We've conjured the concept of magic from whole cloth (it doesn't exist in the real world) and attributed to it supernatural effect (and fiat empowerment).  Therefore, tautologically speaking, mastering the supernatural and being able to deploy it on demand, which provides fiat by proxy, is doable from 1st person perspective (in character)...but that perspective is entrenched in the metagame.  Its the same as if a God that is all omniscient and all powerful claims to just have 1st person perspective.  Of course it doesn't.  Its perspective is inevitably influenced by and a product of metaphysics in the same way that a spellcasters is influenced by and a product of the metagame.  Its a different starting point than for a mundane creature who possesses no omniscience, no ability to reshape existence or reprogram free will.Given these things, the only way for us to provide the same level of fiat (shared imaginary space authorship) to Fighters as we do for Wizards is to leverage the metagame (Author and Director stance exploits that can be leveraged on demand so that players of those characters can say THIS AMAZING THING HAPPENS NOW).Saying a Fighter shouldn't have the same shared imaginary space authorship that a wizard does because a wizard (which we, us, as genre aficionados, have contrived) has a supernatural perspective that is influenced by and a product of the metagame/metaphysics is a sort of strange twist on "blaming the victim."  And then expecting him to just deal or accept his lot/station.</blockquote>

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