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<blockquote data-quote="Manbearcat" data-source="post: 6234505" data-attributes="member: 6696971">This.&nbsp; The above reasoning captured by Mr Strickland is a smidge untenable.&nbsp; Espousing the virtues of extreme outliers' ability to lie within the fundamentals of phenomena is just a tad off-kilter.&nbsp; You're going to have a wee bit of trouble depicting this event as representative of normative physical process when it is multiple orders of magnitude removed from the standard deviation of the mean response.A character jumping off a cliff would never be in the same mental framework as a player imposing the fictional positioning of the character jumping off the cliff.&nbsp; Whats more, a character grounded in understanding of real-world phenomena would certainly never think; &quot;Well, once upon a time I heard legend of a guy who fell off a floating earthmote and hurtled to the ground unimpeded.&nbsp; This guy bounced and survived without a scratch.&nbsp; I guess that means there is a good percentage chance I will survive the same.&nbsp; Sounds like a plan, lets do it.&quot;&nbsp; The extreme majority of other people who have fallen to their death, or grave injury, from much more minor falls would disagree with him...and probably label him insane.HP couldn't possibly satisfy Mearls's &quot;feel&quot; test and that should be without controversy.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Manbearcat, post: 6234505, member: 6696971"] This. The above reasoning captured by Mr Strickland is a smidge untenable. Espousing the virtues of extreme outliers' ability to lie within the fundamentals of phenomena is just a tad off-kilter. You're going to have a wee bit of trouble depicting this event as representative of normative physical process when it is multiple orders of magnitude removed from the standard deviation of the mean response. A character jumping off a cliff would never be in the same mental framework as a player imposing the fictional positioning of the character jumping off the cliff. Whats more, a character grounded in understanding of real-world phenomena would certainly never think; "Well, once upon a time I heard legend of a guy who fell off a floating earthmote and hurtled to the ground unimpeded. This guy bounced and survived without a scratch. I guess that means there is a good percentage chance I will survive the same. Sounds like a plan, lets do it." The extreme majority of other people who have fallen to their death, or grave injury, from much more minor falls would disagree with him...and probably label him insane. HP couldn't possibly satisfy Mearls's "feel" test and that should be without controversy. [/QUOTE]

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