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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Aexalon" data-source="post: 4741050" data-attributes="member: 16283">We can safely agree that that is impossible. The pro-metric camp maintains that SI is more consistent. The pro-imperial camp maintains that imperial is more convenient in day-to-day use. But even in the unlikely case that both sides agree on eachother's assessments of their own systems (which they don't), they'll likely still wouldn't agree on a superior system, since the pro-metric camp largely favours consistency, while the pro-imperial camp largely favours convenience in day-to-day use.In the last 200 years 90-95% of the world community switched to metric from local measurement systems that had held (in Europe, the Middle East, and China at least) for several thousand years. This is not coincidence. Why not accept that the imperial system has served its purpose in guiding western civilisation through the middle ages, but has met its match in SI? The days of Empire have come and gone. The global economy dictates shared standards. Hanging on to local measurement systems is little more than veiled protectionism at worst, or an incompentent waste of planetary resources at best.Besides this still being based on the —imho false— perception that carpenters are less capable of performing their work using the metric system, using the two systems side by side is a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metric_system#Conversion_and_calculation_errors" target="_blank">recipe for disaster</a>. As for scientists being more important than carpenters, "all are needed by each one", but I don't see carpenters fixing world hunger, solving the impending energy crisis, or mitigating climate change any time soon. And the few that do, prefer to be called engineers.Should I read this as "metricising 4E would have caused it to proceed to a massive boondongle", or as "the proud nails 4E did hammer in caused it to proceed to be a massive boondongle, regardless of metrication"?It's called collaborative world building. We leave the villains in the capable hands of the DM. Each contributes to the campaign what he or she is best at.You prefer <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Drake" target="_blank">David Drake</a>. I prefer <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Drake" target="_blank">Frank Drake</a>.</blockquote>

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