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<blockquote data-quote="clearstream" data-source="post: 7834444" data-attributes="member: 71699"><p>A couple of observations that I find interesting relating to that. The first of course is that a model should contain less information than the thing it is simulating. The choice of what to include depends on goals: RPGs have converged around attack chances, hit points and such like. So as you point out handedness is excluded.</p><p></p><p>Intriguingly, unless someone at the table added left or right handedness to the fiction, that literally doesn't exist. It's not in the model, and it's not in the fiction. The ogre only exists to the extent to which it is articulated... because we don't need a real ogre to have a fiction about an ogre. Therefore the ogre handedness can't possibly exist unless we describe it. I don't claim we couldn't describe it, or even that it's not part of our ideas about ogres, but it does not exist in our fiction at the table until we call it out. Smell likewise, and so on.</p><p></p><p>Getting back to the main theme - there is a mapping between your model description "the ogre advances" - represented perhaps by a figurine pushed forward on a gridded, laminated map - and your fiction that is 1:1 until you add details that the model doesn't include. At which point there is still a mapping, because there is still an ogre and it is still positioned thus and so, but you have articulated details deliberately omitted from the model.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="clearstream, post: 7834444, member: 71699"] A couple of observations that I find interesting relating to that. The first of course is that a model should contain less information than the thing it is simulating. The choice of what to include depends on goals: RPGs have converged around attack chances, hit points and such like. So as you point out handedness is excluded. Intriguingly, unless someone at the table added left or right handedness to the fiction, that literally doesn't exist. It's not in the model, and it's not in the fiction. The ogre only exists to the extent to which it is articulated... because we don't need a real ogre to have a fiction about an ogre. Therefore the ogre handedness can't possibly exist unless we describe it. I don't claim we couldn't describe it, or even that it's not part of our ideas about ogres, but it does not exist in our fiction at the table until we call it out. Smell likewise, and so on. Getting back to the main theme - there is a mapping between your model description "the ogre advances" - represented perhaps by a figurine pushed forward on a gridded, laminated map - and your fiction that is 1:1 until you add details that the model doesn't include. At which point there is still a mapping, because there is still an ogre and it is still positioned thus and so, but you have articulated details deliberately omitted from the model. [/QUOTE]
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