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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Alzrius" data-source="post: 6263676" data-attributes="member: 8461">I considered that, but I had a problem with trying to reconcile the narrative versus the setting. In the paragraph I quoted, this can be summarized as the difference between the first sentence and the second, respectively.The issue there is that a given tale can be epic and grand in its particular scope, but that's usually limited to a very specific set of times, places, and circumstances. That's quite often not representative of the setting as a whole.Really, it comes down to what you're trying to categorize - the story or the world.I'd say if that works well for you, run with it. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />That said, it's different from the scale I was using (in my head), because I had the "0" value equated with "none" - or rather, that if something was ranked at 0, then it had no variance from the real world that we're living in now. That is, a setting value of "0" meant that it's set on contemporary Earth with no alterations (e.g. it's set in the modern-day "real world"). A magic prevalence value of "0" meant that magic was totally unknown, and not seriously believed in by most people, etc.That helps to eliminate ambiguities over having 0 be a median value (e.g. it eliminates negative numbers), since there's no consensus on what constitutes "median" in that regard for, say, how powerful magic "should" be, etc. The other question is how high up the scale should go. In this case, I set it to top out at a value of 10 for each attribute. The reason for this is that the larger the scale, the more it measures smaller grades of difference, which can be hard to quantitatively identify between two different works. If on a scale of 0-10, for example, you rank magic power in Harry Potter as being a 3, whereas Lord of the Rings is only a 2 on the same scale, the diminutive range of the scale means that each number has a broader range in what it stands for - so you can say that the former's use of teleporting and death-curses, for example, is enough to let it edge out the latter setting.By contrast, if you have a scale that ranges from 0 to 100, then each number covers something more specific, and you'll need to have a clearer understanding of those specificities. If you rank the magic power in Harry Potter as being a 27, for example, and the magic power displayed in Lord of the Rings at 21, you better be prepared to explain why you chose those numbers specifically, and what a difference of 6 - as opposed to, say, one of 9 - means in practical terms.</blockquote>

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