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<blockquote data-quote="EzekielRaiden" data-source="post: 8576826" data-attributes="member: 6790260">Strength is mostly raw power. But some of it is relative power. It's not able to be perfectly 100% either thing, because the stats in D&amp;D are not clean representations of physical phenomena. They have value because they are loose descriptors of traits generally bundled together by human intuition. These intuitions help to create a believable and grounded world, but are extremely unreliable outside their niches, and the&nbsp; more a backstory gets examined and explored, the more those niches will be revealed to be imperfect intuitions rather than reliable bedrocks of reality.Ultimately, the intuitions are useful but limited. They help us engage with otherwise meaningless numbers. But those intuitions, despite many claims to the contrary, are not and cannot be actual &quot;physics engines.&quot; Pulling at their corners will always eventually reveal the machine underneath.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="EzekielRaiden, post: 8576826, member: 6790260"] Strength is mostly raw power. But some of it is relative power. It's not able to be perfectly 100% either thing, because the stats in D&D are not clean representations of physical phenomena. They have value because they are loose descriptors of traits generally bundled together by human intuition. These intuitions help to create a believable and grounded world, but are extremely unreliable outside their niches, and the more a backstory gets examined and explored, the more those niches will be revealed to be imperfect intuitions rather than reliable bedrocks of reality. Ultimately, the intuitions are useful but limited. They help us engage with otherwise meaningless numbers. But those intuitions, despite many claims to the contrary, are not and cannot be actual "physics engines." Pulling at their corners will always [I]eventually[/I] reveal the machine underneath. [/QUOTE]

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