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<blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 4043142" data-attributes="member: 29398">And if I'm reading those explanations right (and I may not be), they add up to saying, in effect, that X does not equal X even though they are the same.If the game world is to have any internal consistency, then a battle between an adventuring party and a dragon in the Crystal Mountains has to use the same in-game physics (defined as a sum of game rules and universal physical rules e.g. gravity) as a fight between another adventuring party and a band of trolls in the Mytherendel Forest, or a fight between yet another adventuring party and some pirates in the Kailos Islands.&nbsp; Whether or not one or more player characters is involved in any of these situations is utterly irrelevant.As soon as you define things such that the PCs function differently from the rest of the game world (without an excellent in-game reason e.g. the PCs are all from another world) then internal consistency and believability race each other to be first out the window.Lanefan</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Lanefan, post: 4043142, member: 29398"] And if I'm reading those explanations right (and I may not be), they add up to saying, in effect, that X does not equal X even though they are the same. If the game world is to have any internal consistency, then a battle between an adventuring party and a dragon in the Crystal Mountains has to use the same in-game physics (defined as a sum of game rules and universal physical rules e.g. gravity) as a fight between another adventuring party and a band of trolls in the Mytherendel Forest, or a fight between yet another adventuring party and some pirates in the Kailos Islands. Whether or not one or more player characters is involved in any of these situations is [B]utterly irrelevant[/B]. As soon as you define things such that the PCs function differently from the rest of the game world (without an excellent in-game reason e.g. the PCs are all from another world) then internal consistency and believability race each other to be first out the window. Lanefan [/QUOTE]

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