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<blockquote data-quote="Campbell" data-source="post: 8674074" data-attributes="member: 16586">I think if we are aiming to portray a setting that feels like a real place it's important that we are consistent - that the overall fiction coheres with itself. Otherwise, we are just speaking to idiosyncratic aesthetic preferences. To me picking and choosing when and where to apply different standards is not treating the setting like a real place that can be meaningfully explored. Like of course people still eat, get diseases, break their bones, etc. It all just still has to pass a credibility test for me. Like if I can reasonably fight an ancient dragon with my 3 best buddies it should take a fair number of goblins to be a meaningful threat and my athleticism outside of combat should match what I am capable of inside of it.I am fine with a more down to earth approach that still includes fantastic elements as long as it's consistent. A warrior in RuneQuest is basically still a guy in a world where fantastic creatures and magic exists, but they aren't going off into the outer planes to wage war against Hell itself. They won't go around fighting giants and will likely be concerned about getting into fights with other warriors.From my perspective it's all about coherence.The reason I drive this point so hard as the passe way people seem to be using simulation as code for my idiosyncratic aesthetic preferences are better. I mean when you see all these callouts about anime it obviously does not seem like this is in any way related to a coherent approach to the game's setting.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Campbell, post: 8674074, member: 16586"] I think if we are aiming to portray a setting that feels like a real place it's important that we are consistent - that the overall fiction coheres with itself. Otherwise, we are just speaking to idiosyncratic aesthetic preferences. To me picking and choosing when and where to apply different standards is not treating the setting like a real place that can be meaningfully explored. Like of course people still eat, get diseases, break their bones, etc. It all just still has to pass a credibility test for me. Like if I can reasonably fight an ancient dragon with my 3 best buddies it should take a fair number of goblins to be a meaningful threat and my athleticism outside of combat should match what I am capable of inside of it. I am fine with a more down to earth approach that still includes fantastic elements as long as it's consistent. A warrior in RuneQuest is basically still a guy in a world where fantastic creatures and magic exists, but they aren't going off into the outer planes to wage war against Hell itself. They won't go around fighting giants and will likely be concerned about getting into fights with other warriors. From my perspective it's all about coherence. The reason I drive this point so hard as the passe way people seem to be using [I]simulation [/I]as code for [I]my idiosyncratic aesthetic preferences are better[/I]. I mean when you see all these callouts about [I]anime[/I] it obviously does not seem like this is in any way related to a coherent approach to the game's setting. [/QUOTE]

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