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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Greenfield" data-source="post: 6167726" data-attributes="member: 6669384">Not to be argumentative, but how do you handle falling damage?  Do you calculate real world falling speed?  Do you take air density into account?  (Meaning, atmospheric pressure at the current altitude, modified by humidity)  Do you have some formula for converting mass times velocity-squared into hit points?  Do you account for the hardness of the surface they're hitting?To resurrect the Hamster cannon, do you worry about Conservation of Momentum when a moving projectile changes size and mass?  (Someone under Enlarge Person fires an arrow, the arrow returns to normal size when it leaves the bow, and thus decreases in mass by a factor of 8.)  Do you take planetary spin into account (approx 1000 mph surface rotational velocity).  That would have to multiply as well.  So would the 62,500 mph of the planet's orbit around the sun.Do Lightning Bolt spells burn the hand of the caster?  Real world lightning strikes are hotter than the surface of the sun, you know.  Does the spell start fires?Where does the energy for a Lightning Bolt come from?  Where do the material components go?  If you want to say that the spell power comes from the destruction of the components, you still have an immense amount of energy left unaccounted for.  Simply freeing the Electrons from the matter would leave a horrendous positive charge on the caster, from the remaining Protons, and the Neutron burst released would give everyone in the area a fatal dose of radiation poisoning. How do you account for the sudden appearance of matter when spells like Create Food and Drink are cast?  Violates the laws of Conservation of Matter and Energy, you know.Where does the energy for spells like Continual Flame come from? (It's effectively an unlimited amount of energy,since the effect lasts forever.)  Where does the energy go when sunlight hits a Darkness spell?  How does Teleport work?  Is velocity maintained?  Do you take planetary spin into account?  Where does the energy come from/go to when the starting point and destination are at different altitudes?  Different latitudes?  (The caster's velocity is higher near the equator than it is as they move away.  See Coriolis Force as applied to course plotting in air travel, if you need a reference.)I suspect that what you strive for is "Realism", not "Reality".  That is, something that suits your gut level feeling of how physics ought to work, without any real consideration for how it does work.So, to be clear, I'm not saying that your game doesn't work.  I'm just suggesting that you're picking and choosing what part of "physics" you want to allow/require/apply, and then using it to justify the results you feel you should have.  In short, you're using "Credibility", rather than reality.  It's just a question of what's credible to you.</blockquote>

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