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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Majoru Oakheart" data-source="post: 6284971" data-attributes="member: 5143">Here's the problem.  As I said previously, plausibility is determined by players...mostly by their experiences in real life.If someone jumps 200 feet off a cliff and lands on their feet without taking damage, most people are going to say "Yeah, that doesn't seem very plausible".  What are they basing that on?  Well, they know that people's legs can't withstand the kind of force that they would take when falling at the speed gravity causes someone to fall at over 200 ft.That requires a lot of assumptions.  It assumes gravity works at the same speed that air resistance applies the same way, that legs are made of the same stuff as they are in real life and have the same properties of how easily they are damaged.Even rules don't necessarily help clarify this.  Someone can have 200 hitpoints and take 20 damage from that fall.  Which can seem implausible to people even though the rules tell you that should be possible.  Mostly because people tend to fall back to their knowledge of the real world rather than their knowledge of the rules to see if something is plausible except for the most dedicated player who has ingrained the rules as a form of physics in their mind.</blockquote>