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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 8630434" data-attributes="member: 82106"><p>Well, I argue that 'world integrity' really doesn't exist in RPGs generally because the nature of the world is so underspecified that it is entirely impossible to determine in any way what the actual constraints are. I think its potentially possible to say that some worlds have a greater integrity or plausibility (in internal terms) than others, perhaps. However the demands of other agendas and practical play considerations put a enough of an upper limit on it that it isn't going to matter. Maybe if the subject matter of a game is VERY limited, then within that aspect the world could be consistent. That is, much like the old Avalon Hill D-Day game produces a pretty plausible set of scenarios for the course of the Invasion of France, an RPG that occupies itself with a narrow subject could be quite plausible within that range. It is just not likely to be a very general game, just like the AH game only produces division-level simulations of a small part of WWII that are kind of believable.</p></blockquote><p></p>