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<blockquote data-quote="Mustrum_Ridcully" data-source="post: 3830294" data-attributes="member: 710">Well, I think you're going a bit to far here. The only thing I can determine is that I think and therefore exist. I have no way to prove that you think and are just not a robot reacting to some external input, or that you're a figment of my imagination. Science only works on observations, which always include a margin of error. But by repeating observations, we get a certain degree of certainety that the conclusions we made based on our observations are true. Now, that might be totally wrong and in fact the universe is entirely chaotic and it just happens we are in a phase where it _seems_ as if our conclusions and predictions based on some observations are true. But assuming that doesn't help us any further.So, if a scientist has measured neuronal activity on a few hundreds to thousands or millions of test subjects and linked their emotional descriptions with his measurements, we can pretty much rely on these data.Er... So what what were we discussing?That's not entirely true, not if you're comparing combat power. A D&amp;D character and a Exalted character can't play in the same game, because they use different rules. What would 12 points of D&amp;D fire damage mean to a Exalted character? What does his +4 attack bonus mean? These have only meanings within the game.It's a bit different with other skills: How high is the success chance for a 1st level D&amp;D character to climb a knotted rope? How high is it for a Warhammer character? How high for an Exalted character?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mustrum_Ridcully, post: 3830294, member: 710"] Well, I think you're going a bit to far here. The only thing I can determine is that I think and therefore exist. I have no way to prove that you think and are just not a robot reacting to some external input, or that you're a figment of my imagination. Science only works on observations, which always include a margin of error. But by repeating observations, we get a certain degree of certainety that the conclusions we made based on our observations are true. Now, that might be totally wrong and in fact the universe is entirely chaotic and it just happens we are in a phase where it _seems_ as if our conclusions and predictions based on some observations are true. But assuming that doesn't help us any further. So, if a scientist has measured neuronal activity on a few hundreds to thousands or millions of test subjects and linked their emotional descriptions with his measurements, we can pretty much rely on these data. Er... So what what were we discussing? That's not entirely true, not if you're comparing combat power. A D&D character and a Exalted character can't play in the same game, because they use different rules. What would 12 points of D&D fire damage mean to a Exalted character? What does his +4 attack bonus mean? These have only meanings within the game. It's a bit different with other skills: How high is the success chance for a 1st level D&D character to climb a knotted rope? How high is it for a Warhammer character? How high for an Exalted character? [/QUOTE]

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