Yes, because casting fireballs or summoning undead isn’t
Just because some parts of your created world don’t correspond to known reality, doesn’t mean everything must now not make sense. Otherwise you’d have a game where you walk backwards, where hitting something creates pink unicorns and everything is chaos.
Not to mention that it wouldn’t make sense that they use any of our known languages, so the whole game would be a bunch of made-up symbols and you’d have no idea what anything did.
All fantasy and sci-fi stories are mostly about having “some” things that are impossible but are logical, according to our reality, for the vast majority of things.
Player : But come on, DM ! Solid materials are SO real world logic. It’s a fantasy world so we can never use real world logic ever again. I’m phasing through the wall anyway, and nuke the boss in less than a second. Here, I won the game.
Who needs hurdles ? Hurdles are so real world logic.
The biggest hurdle is the DM. Without at least two slices of premium pizza, there is no way around that.
“As Percival the Delusional runs against the wall, his nose makes contact first. Time seems to slow down, everyone can clearly observe what is happening. Does reality really shifts? For a moment, it looks like it works, like Percival’s nose phases into the stone. But soon, y’all realize that it is just compressed beyond recognition. Take 1d8 bludgeoning damage, Percival.”
All I’m thinking of is The Flash CW show when Barry was learning to phase through objects
Edit: actually, while we’re talking about sense. donstinfoilhat All the characters are clearly humans with 5 fingers per hand, why are we limited to two rings? What about earrings. I’ve also seen plenty of people wear more than one necklace. You’re all focusing on the weapons side of things, which is EHGs ploy to cover up the real issues.
Well, that’s a kind of magic, the speedforce, if my nerdy part of the brain recalls correctly. Though I’ve never seen the series, just some movie from the 90s. Or was it late 80s?
No, it isn’t. The canon of it is that it’s an energy field, one of the fundamental forces of the universe. So, within the parameters of this fantasy setting, it’s “sciency” and is what causes motion to be possible.
“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic” - Arthur C. Clarke.
Call it a fictional energy field or magic, it makes no real difference. Many fantasy settings treat magic like a science. They might not even call it magic in the fiction, but the authors will refer to it as magic systems.
Yes, but my point is that in the DC universe, the speedforce is the equivalent of gravity, electromagnetism and weak and strong interactions. It’s supposed to be part of the building blocks of the universe.
So it’s supposed to be science in their setting, as opposed, for example, to Zatanna’s powers, or the huge number of magic users. Because the DC universe does have both (Batman is all science, for example). And they also separate science from magic.
A fictional natural force or magic, they both serve the same purpose in the stories. Explain how shit is possible, even if it is a very hand-wavy 'cause magic explanation.
Bruce Wayne has no access to those powers, so he does not walk face forward through a wall to visit Barry Allen. He uses the Tumbler to break through
Just because a game or fictional universe has things in it that wouldn’t work in the real world doesn’t mean it doesn’t have it’s own rules or laws. Google hard magic vs soft magic. You assume that just because magic/whatever exists that there can be no rules when all of fantasy fiction says you’re wrong.
