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>Kevin Blackburn wrote:
>>Or some hero with significant movement magic, running after a horse.
>>Clearly at some point it becomes satisfying for a hero to be able to
>>outrun a horse, but how many heroes can do it? And responses of "when
>>the story calls for it" will be considered (at least by me) to be
>>missing the point.
>
>Well, will you accept the "close, but not the same" answer of "when that
>makes sense for that hero's schtick"?
>
In Glorantha, I'd expect the world description or rules to tell me when
- as a GM I need guidelines as to what is sensible, and I in turn need
to be able to convey those guidelines to my players.
>If you have movement magic, than putting it against a horse in a race
>seems to make perfect sense.
>If you're playing a special forces game and you have Fast 17, I doubt
>anyone would think it makes sense that this means you can outrun a car.
>(Although you could end up in a challenge with a car that would make
>sense.)
I suspect he HQ2 apparently purist storytelling approach works much better in the real world, or something near it , as there's an existing shared agreement on "sense". And perhaps in groups where the GM's initial word is absolute and unarguable law. For Glorantha and my game this is not the case.
>>In a world with strong magic, perhaps a credibility test fails its own
>>credibility test: pretty much anything is possible with enough magic and
>>there's Gloranthan examples to prove it (raise a moon, stop time, swap
>>goddess).
>
>I don't agree with that.
>It depends on your credible magic. If you don't have magic to raise a
>moon, then trying to do it fails a credibility test.
>
Let's say the character has throwing magic (say "Aid throw with wind" -
or, in the context, perhaps not!) - at this point it becomes only a
matter of scale. There's obviously not too many with this ability to
throw moons into the sky (else there'd be loads of rocks in the sky) -
but players are usually special. And gods probably can (if not bound by
the great compromise, . etc.). So "credibility" is too grey to be much
use in determining possibility.
This is obviously an exaggerated example, but there will be far more practical instances all over the place in a game with strong magic.
>LC
-- Kevin Blackburn Kevin_at_...
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