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<blockquote data-quote="FireLance" data-source="post: 3520948" data-attributes="member: 3424">I don't think it's a conflict between Fun and Reality. Rather, it's a conflict between two different types of creativity. David Eddings touched on it early in his book Belgarath the Sorcerer, when Belmakor (a Melcene) and Belsambar (an Angarak) were arguing about the construction of Beldin's tower.Belmakor's approach was to start with the construction materials available, and to work out what he could do with them. I would peg this as the engineer's approach.On the other hand, Belsambar started with the idea of what he wanted, and then tried to find ways to make it work. I would peg this as the artist's approach.Of course, as a sorcerer, Belmakor had the advantage of being able to bend reality to get it to do what he wanted. And, while we can't get away with it in the real world, we can bend reality in our games if we want to (and really, it's fine if you don't). Just call it special training, superhuman skill, the Force, ki, latent magic or psionic ability, etc.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="FireLance, post: 3520948, member: 3424"] I don't think it's a conflict between Fun and Reality. Rather, it's a conflict between two different types of creativity. David Eddings touched on it early in his book Belgarath the Sorcerer, when Belmakor (a Melcene) and Belsambar (an Angarak) were arguing about the construction of Beldin's tower. Belmakor's approach was to start with the construction materials available, and to work out what he could do with them. I would peg this as the engineer's approach. On the other hand, Belsambar started with the idea of what he wanted, and then tried to find ways to make it work. I would peg this as the artist's approach. Of course, as a sorcerer, Belmakor had the advantage of being able to bend reality to get it to do what he wanted. And, while we can't get away with it in the real world, we can bend reality in our games if we want to (and really, it's fine if you don't). Just call it special training, superhuman skill, the Force, ki, latent magic or psionic ability, etc. [/QUOTE]

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