>Surely on the contrary, the point is, what happens in the following
>two (not very!) contrasting situations: a) one person is
>Tree-jumping, using her magic for same, by herself/for a larf; vs. b)
>one person is _competing_ with another in jumping over trees with
>respectively Tree-jumping magic, and some 'mundane' leaping ability.
>
>If you model the first case in the Greggly way (vs. default
>resistance), there's a large disjunct in the second case according to
>whether you treat it as a jumping contest per se, or as two separate
>tests (one vs. default, one height-based resistanvce). And since
>no-one seems that clear _why_ the first case is as it is (or at least,
>there's far from general clarity about it), it's not immediately
>evident which of them is necessarily 'correct', from any of a
>game-word, storytelling, or MGF pov. Or how to rationalise the
>distinction.
I missed this before posting my reply. Well said, and thanks for the analysis. I think you may have said more suscinctly what the problem is (and with much less vitriol than I put into it).
Mike
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