BTW, moving back to the rap thing for a moment, I found the Rap Critic to be a good jumping-on point for hooking rap and hip-hop into my existing musical schema.
Taking a ruleset that was designed to at least partially simulate reality, and treating it as ironclad physics for a world where you ignore any difference between the simulation and IRL reality?
@BESW Not really. That's the old "but magic" canard, which taken to its own logical extreme means that a GM can say "oh, your backpack is empty when you look for your potion. It fell 'up' earlier. Because magic!" We can still expect a certain amount of internal consistency even after adding magic.
@BESW Yes. It just doesn't void all expectations. It voids the ones that it must and, Occam's Razor, leaves the rest intact. Else we get potions falling up and 2+2=17 for no reason.
@BESW Yes. :) What a strange metaphysics does do is grant permission to expand on the existing changes. It just doesn't make those further changes all itself.
I think the impulse to ground them out as the physics is an inverted simulationist urge. Valid, but conflicts with those who just want to accept the rules as a non-simulationist thing that's somewhat detached from the fiction's physics.
Like, imagine if someone tried to argue that the rules necessitated a reification of Fate points. It would be quite the acrimonious debate.
@BESW It sounds like you have a group that's long since reached the Performing stage, so maybe not so surprising. You likely have a very good collective grasp of each other and how to just get on with things effectively.
The surprising bit, I suppose, is that I'm talking about my old D&D 3.5 and 4e groups, which somehow arrived at that stage more organically and less consciously than my current group.
Does someone know how to run a successful peaceful revolution? In particular, as L5R Asahina Shugenja against the Maho-tainted Emperor of Rokugan? And how do I find japanese fiction (theatre, pillow books, whatever) about lords being overthrown or falling due to their own greed or similar?
The mathematician in me wants to counter with “Define pi, and define whole number”. But I know it will lead nowhere.
The Planck Constant on the other hand…
I don't think you'd survive this, but I would guess that depending on the order of magnitude, something would still exist afterwards, and might even for interesting structures.
