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I've already highlighted twice that how DND defines magic is stupid and constantly complained about. You're not making some revelatory point here. Did I say that? Was I being vague in what I thought was a straightforward and unambiguous statement? Rhetorical questions, obviously, don't start...

The joke was in reference to Hobbits, given I was previously talking about them being entirely ignorant to what was or wasn't magic. And what I and the other person were discussing is what happened in Lord of the Rings. Yes, he wrote Aragorn saying he was doing those things. He also wrote...

Asimov's Fantasy stories weren't sci-fi pretending to be fantasy, however, so one has to take that quote with a grain of salt. He was talking about the dynamics of pushing sci-fi beyond the near future or super realistic.

The point, as its not being made clear enough, is that you fundamentally limit where you can go when you insist on basing whats mundane or not on the real world. One of my personal ideas for a Ranger capability is sending messages on the wind. Sure, that's an impossible magic thing in the real...

Im pretty sure you've expressed that you get the idea of immersing yourself, though now I suppose I'll have to second guess that.

No, it doesn't. If you can't conceive of accepting that a different reality has nothing to do with how our real world works then thats a shame, given thats the entire point of fantasy worldbuilding. You're approaching it as though its science fiction and expecting things to be based in how our...

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Naturally I disagree. As I said originally, theres a different aesthetic at play when we call something uncanny vs magical, and the same extends to supernatural. One can choose to not put any value in the differences, but that doesn't mean they're not there or that everything has to be...

*if you're an ignorant hole person. It isn't supernatural, however. Not in Middle-Earth.

No, he didn't. And Tolkien acknowledged in one of his letters that Men are never supposed to be able to use Magic. It was actually a mistake he made in describing Numenor; so if the Numenorians weren't supposed to be spellcasters, Aragorn sure as hell isn't. DND idiosyncrasies are irrelevant...

One not appreciating the aesthetic differences between the uncanny and the magical doesn't make it magic.

No, he did not. Aragorn has an uncanny skill as a healer because he was destined to, and thats derived from his backstory being effectively raised by Elves. People don't often understand or even realize that much of what we see as "magical" in LOTR is just uncanny skill. Things like Lembas...

Skip to the attached rules if you don't want to read my musings. The martial/magic doc cuts out what I'm talking about, but I also threw in the full CombatDoc for those that want to chew on it or just see how different things work. Keep in mind this is a development doc. Its only meant to be...

I didn't get the phrase from a thread, but I use the title "Enigma Horizon" as a title for my doc where I'm compiling all my ideas for a Scifi take on the system I'm building for Labyrinthian. Pretty apropos, given my take would be NASAPunk meets John Wick meets Vaporwave, but I'm not married...

Something else to consider here is that formatting makes a difference even with big systems. As an example, I recently, in a bout of depression impostor syndrome spurned on by breaking my diet, ended up examining the PF2E PHB, comparing its equivalent section on Combat to my own Combat...

Sure, which is why its still a good tool to keep a generic way to resolve things. But a games scope matters. Climbing, swimming, and sneaking around matter much more in a game that expects a lot of physical movement and action as part of its genre or theme. A medical drama just doesn't...

The thing I think about that example is that there isn't a situation in such a game's scope where any of those activities are something that'd be particularly challenging in any context you could end up in. It doesn't need mechanization because it just isn't important to any sort of story that'd...

Exactly what I was speaking to about not being bespoke. A proper stat block is about making a Dragon feel like an actual big damn Dragon. The Enemy Block is about not losing mechanical depth just because some enemy got unexpectedly conjured into the gameworld by the game's sandbox and improv...

If a procedure is complex, it probably isn't what I'd call solid. While I'm naturally on the other side of this discussion, I don't think whats being argued for here is tabletop calculus. Having adequate procedures to cover the trappings of the gameworld isn't the same thing as having complex...