Magic: important to your enjoyment of rpgs ?

Orion · Post by **Orion** » Sat Jul 18, 2015 12:13 am

How much money does your RPG group budget for R & D?

deaddmwalking · Post by **deaddmwalking** » Sat Jul 18, 2015 12:33 am

In most countries that isn't an option. Even in countries that it is technically possible, it is prohibitive unless you're talking about a very small number of weapons (and not military weapons). And then after you complete your testing, someone will argue that a Hummer has a better defensive value than a Mini Cooper. And then after you do some more tests someone decides they'd rather use Hollywood physics and you're right back to arguments. Rules help.

Orion · Post by **Orion** » Sun Jul 19, 2015 5:18 pm

And, just to finish the argument: Once you're writing rules, it's tidier to make up fantasy things that conform to the rules than to pretend that real things are defined by them.