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<blockquote data-quote="Ultimatecalibur" data-source="post: 5501563" data-attributes="member: 59539">So you are saying that a world's Physics determine what a power source like 4e's Martial can do, and a world's Chemistry determines what something like Alchemy can do. Well in many stories &quot;magic&quot; has its own sets of rules.Funny thing is that the rules of the real world do allow me to cut mountains in half. Circumstances are what prevent me from doing so. All I need is a blade (or a way to create a blade for a limited time) long enough and sharp enough to cut through all that rock and dirt and a way to accelerate the blade so that it traverses through the mountain. Heck get a big enough blade and you can cut planets, stars and even galaxies. Verisimilitude is dependent on a lot of things, genre is a big one. Magic does not break verisimilitude in fantasy but it does in other genres. If I had a gritty real world nior detective mystery and the solution at the end of the book was a demon did it, it would break my sense of verisimilitude.The only thing that makes most Fighters unable to perform fantastic feats when Wizards can do things like kill everyone in 100 feet by saying a single word is a bunch of tropes that have been in the game for 30+ years.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ultimatecalibur, post: 5501563, member: 59539"] So you are saying that a world's Physics determine what a power source like 4e's Martial can do, and a world's Chemistry determines what something like Alchemy can do. Well in many stories "magic" has its own sets of rules. Funny thing is that the rules of the [i]real[/i] world [i]do[/i] allow me to cut mountains in half. Circumstances are what prevent me from doing so. All I need is a blade (or a way to create a blade for a limited time) long enough and sharp enough to cut through all that rock and dirt and a way to accelerate the blade so that it traverses through the mountain. Heck get a big enough blade and you can cut planets, stars and even galaxies. Verisimilitude is dependent on a lot of things, genre is a big one. Magic does not break verisimilitude in fantasy but it does in other genres. If I had a gritty real world nior detective mystery and the solution at the end of the book was a demon did it, it would break my sense of verisimilitude. The only thing that makes most Fighters unable to perform fantastic feats when Wizards can do things like kill everyone in 100 feet by saying a single word is a bunch of tropes that have been in the game for 30+ years. [/QUOTE]

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