WHY

[james_davis_nicoll]

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?

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Is it possible the game is set on an Alderson disc?

[dragoness_e]

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.)

[(Anonymous)]

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.