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Message: <blockquote data-quote="EzekielRaiden" data-source="post: 9108589" data-attributes="member: 6790260">Plenty of GMs on this very forum have directly advocated such things though. The "haunted house that shows up regardless of which path you take" example, for instance, because the GM prepared a thing and doesn't want that prep to go to waste.As a student of the STEM fields, it is continuously infuriating the degree to which fellow STEM people dismiss, discount, or deride non-mathematical analysis. Like...these are, to a person, intelligent, engaged people who genuinely wish to have serious conversations about worthwhile subjects. Yet they are, half the time, completely incapable of believing that it is possible to have a discussion about a topic in any evaluative sense without specifically using measuring and counting to do it. (Ironically, for some reason, amongst the "hard" sciences it is always either the biologists or my own tribe, the physicists; the chemists somehow avoid this quite well.)See above. The fact that evaluation without mathematical structure occurs all the time is apparently quite lost on some folks. I to this day do not know why or how. The aforementioned STEM-field acquaintances would often even get testy (sometimes even unpleasant!) if you ever tried to assert that there were other ways of obtaining truths besides measuring and counting.The Empirical Project definitely has enormous advantages, but this particular disadvantage is quite vexing.</blockquote>

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