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<blockquote data-quote="billd91" data-source="post: 5968018" data-attributes="member: 3400">Who says that everything has to? But you need a starting point and using the real world is the best and easiest model we have that we also have a reasonably common understanding of. Things fall when dropped. Heat rises. Granite is harder than talc and makes for better castle walls. That's what says a D&amp;D character can't jump 30 feet in the air without some form of exception. If you're too ready to ditch our real-world physics model, you have to spend a lot of time redefining it in order for a player's expectations in a game to make sense. Computer games do that, but then they have to in order for the players' avatars to be able to do anything at all. That's not the case in pen and paper RPGs where the assumption is that the the way the real world works forms a baseline reality for the game.Sure, there are more exceptions that just magic. But in your typical fantasy setting, it's among the most powerful ones as far as creating variation (bound by virtually nothing) and the one that's most supportive of the fantasy genre.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="billd91, post: 5968018, member: 3400"] Who says that [b]everything[/b] has to? But you [b]need a starting point[/b] and using the real world is the best and easiest model we have that we also have a reasonably common understanding of. Things fall when dropped. Heat rises. Granite is harder than talc and makes for better castle walls. That's what says a D&D character can't jump 30 feet in the air without some form of exception. If you're too ready to ditch our real-world physics model, you have to spend a lot of time redefining it in order for a player's expectations in a game to make sense. Computer games do that, but then they [b]have[/b] to in order for the players' avatars to be able to do anything at all. That's not the case in pen and paper RPGs where the assumption is that the the way the real world works forms a baseline reality for the game. Sure, there are more exceptions that just magic. But in your typical fantasy setting, it's among the most powerful ones as far as creating variation (bound by virtually nothing) and the one that's most supportive of the fantasy genre. [/QUOTE]

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