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james_davis_nicoll ([personal profile] james_davis_nicoll) wrote2020-08-21 10:56 am

WHY

DO PEOPLE INSIST ON ADDING DETAILS TO ROLEPLAYING SETTINGS THAT UNDERMINE THE ESSENTIAL REALISM OF PEOPLE FIGHTING DRAGONS BY THINKING HARSH THOUGHTS SO ENERGETICALLY LITERAL FIRE SHOOTS OUT OF THE CHARACTERS' FINGERTIPS?
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[personal profile] catbear 2020-08-21 03:58 pm (UTC)(link)
Reckon there's some kind of delight to be had in tormenting those fragile little minds unaccustomed to venturing outside the safe confines of the patriarchal white supremacist society they were raised in. Maybe?
Edited 2020-08-21 15:58 (UTC)

[personal profile] theresawright 2020-08-21 07:13 pm (UTC)(link)
Everyone knows SJWs didn't invent non-cis non-straight non-white non-male people until the 1980s.
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[personal profile] dragoness_e 2020-08-21 07:30 pm (UTC)(link)
So this is either about non-white characters in fantasy pseudo-medieval pseudo-Europe, or a certain hugely popular fantasy MMORPG that appears to have the sun both rise and set in the north. I admit to being the person who bitched about the latter.
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[personal profile] rydra_wong 2020-08-21 07:34 pm (UTC)(link)
Is this about the combat wheelchair, or has there been a new kerfuffle since?

If it's about the combat wheelchair, I'm going to leave the link here for anyone who wishes to admire or add it to their own games:

https://twitter.com/mustangsart/status/1291836011438366723

(Anonymous) 2020-08-21 10:13 pm (UTC)(link)
Is it possible the game is set on an Alderson disc?

(Anonymous) 2020-08-21 10:43 pm (UTC)(link)
FOOLS! THE ESSENTIAL REALISM OF ROLEPLAYING WAS ALREADY FOREVER COMPROMISED WHEN THEY INSISTED ON ABANDONING THE PERFECT AND FLAWLESS MECHANIC OF PERCENTILE STRENGTH!

Riderius
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[personal profile] kgbooklog 2020-08-22 12:05 am (UTC)(link)
I've seen more than one fantasy novel where the provided map had E and W swapped on the compass rose. None of them ever mentioned this detail in the text.
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[personal profile] dragoness_e 2020-08-22 02:02 am (UTC)(link)
Only if it somehow manages to look exactly like a round planet when viewed from orbit. (Yes, there is a point in the game where you are standing on the deck of a spaceship in orbit looking down at the planet). And all if all the globes found in various Neglectful Precursor dungeons are lying. (Which is possible, the NPs somehow missed a few continents when mapping... not to mention mapping the globe in a time when it was a pangaea but showing the current map. Self-updating globes, I presume.)

[personal profile] keith_morrison 2020-08-22 04:22 am (UTC)(link)
It comes from the probably geographically-clueless belief some people have that they're going to show an otherwise Earthlike planet but the sun rises in the west! See, dramatically different worldbuilding!

They usually assume that "north" is the prime cardinal direction and the others are defined off it, when in truth "north" is simply the direction of the pole to your left when looking toward the rising sun (over most of the planet's surface area, anyway).

(Anonymous) 2020-08-22 05:03 am (UTC)(link)
There's precedent. The planet in Final Fantasy 8 looks round when you see it from space, but the surface clearly has toroidal topology when you're moving around on it.
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[personal profile] thatdawnperson 2020-08-22 02:20 pm (UTC)(link)
I too lose immersion in settings that take seriously armours that focus blows into the sternum or leave huge swaths of flesh utterly without protection.

(Anonymous) 2020-08-22 07:26 pm (UTC)(link)
Did you play a game with contact between Europe and Latin America in the 19th century?
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[personal profile] jamoche 2020-08-23 07:15 am (UTC)(link)
Flames... flames!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9LI9PaL_qQ

Sorry, but every time I see this post I'm earwormed with that scene.

(Anonymous) 2020-08-25 03:06 pm (UTC)(link)
The further north you go in summer, the further north the Sun rises and sets. Of course, at some point it just skims the due north horizon. North of that, no rising or setting.
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[personal profile] scott_sanford 2020-08-27 01:38 am (UTC)(link)
Doesn't this come up in an Oz book? Granted that this is not in the top hundred bizarre things in the land of Oz, so it could easily be forgotten.