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Trish
Thu 14:24
I don't get what Mon wants: I just want to flip the order of battles and the winner has to rush and meet Hardrada... I mean, the idea is to figure out if flipping the order of battles could lead to a Hardrada-run North Sea Empire. William losing most certainly could (because Godwinson also was a Knuth descendant) worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/268399/…
Trish
Thu 14:09
it's not intricately weaving sentences or such.
Trish
Thu 14:09
@Toph true, and they are trained to do so. But then again, the rules are rather simple: get the ball over so the others can't catch it.
Trish
Thu 14:07
@VLAZ it might work with one slight change: All characters are casters and channelers, but everybody can only channel one type of mana. Then it becomes a tactic discussion who channels what energy for whom.
Trish
Thu 14:06
That's what I mean with implying ritual spells. Much less time pressure. Ever seen a mortar team? It's hectic: two people prepare charges in advance, one hands them to the loader, the loader drops them in steady rythm, and one tracks aim and keeps the mortar where it shall aim. It takes like 10-20 minutes prep to fire one volley. That duos? They are essentially mortar teams.
Trish
Thu 14:04
@Toph think of it in D&D Terms a moment. A duo only can cast a spell if the caster and the caller both spend their action on a spell, in the right order, and I don't see callers doing the calling in about 3 seconds, and casters not doing the shaping in the other 3 of a round. It's at least something that lends itself to a multi-round thing.
Trish
Thu 14:01
I don't think the duo-magic would be working well for dungeoneering or such. but, it lends itself well to great works or more than two collaborating. Like, a half dozen shapers and some dozen callers to weave an intricate master spell to enslave dragonkind or annihilate a city.
Trish
Thu 13:59
I mewan, if such a duo casts "fireball", then its not like a quick cast, it is more an artillery-strike spell. In fact, you might add a 'director' or 'musician' to the team that allows the duo to keep pace to one another better and have pretty much a classic cannon crew size. Aimer, Loader, conductor.
Trish
Thu 13:56
the caller/shaper setup will most definitly lead to more ritualized magic and less quick-magic, as you need to coordinate, unless there is a method to store magical energy in some fashion (e.g. in a crystal or something) so the shaper can release it separate.
Trish
Jul 18 15:36
@VLAZ at lesat that might be one religion, while another might believe they were handed tenets by their gods early on, and it is their job to prepare the world for their coming back by doing the stuff the tenets say, possibly including gruesome stuff.
Trish
Jul 17 17:04
they don't worship the gods they worship the creation and balance. Though the other gods do directly influence the world there.
Trish
Jul 17 16:43
@VLAZ The Dark Eye has one religion that is very hands of: The Rur and Gor believe in twin gods that made the world, and the world is in flight between one and the other, so neither can influence the world at the moment. But to arrive there, the humans have to make sure everything stays in balance.
Trish
Jul 17 14:33
@VLAZ Sounds like Elder Gods. As in, the humans that figure it out go mad, and try to either make the gods crush the world, or they go stern and go all out STOP THAT!
Trish
Jul 16 10:33
@JourneymanGeek Zamak is not a proper gunmetal alloy, Raven Arms! Ring of fire vibes...
Trish
Jul 16 07:34
Or placed as a self-destructing chunk next to more valuable steel bits, like boat hulls.
Trish
Jul 16 07:34
Zink is a beautiful metal... alloyed with copper to get Brass!
Trish
Jun 30 04:41
BUT, JBH is not harrassing anyone, he is leaving comments on every user if the question is in any way tangential.
Trish
Jun 30 04:41
@user119041 If you are harrassed, use the "harrasssment" flag, or custom to explain they are following you in a pattern.
Trish
Jun 24 23:52
as in, we have ideas how space could be mapped around them and distances and how long you might be in them, but not if they can exist at all
Trish
Jun 24 23:51
@Hokon wormholes are better mathed out how they could work than figured out if they could exis
Trish
Jun 24 23:39
Though... we should name more science after cats. I mean, wouldn't you want to use the "Princess Murdermitts III quantum field collapser"?
Trish
Jun 24 23:30
and the other way is: just give it a name to tell about the origin. As in, inventor, or maker of the machine.^^ Or both.
Trish
Jun 24 23:29
Nice example of a throwaway technobabel invention - the name is purely descriptive of what it does.
Trish
Jun 24 23:28
> When she stepped into the neural disruptor's field, her ears rang, a tiny rising tone that made Case think of the sound of her fletcher.
Trish
Jun 24 23:27
@AlexP yes. And that's all it needs for good technobabel! Give it a name, describe what it does, and keep it simple
Trish
Jun 24 23:24
There. What do you learn about the octagon from those two sentences? "It's some kind of drug, pink, and in a shape of an 8-cornered thingy. Then, williams describes what it does to the protagonist.
Trish
Jun 24 23:23
> Two blocks west of the Chat, in a teashop called the Jarre de The, Case washed down the night's first pill with a double espresso. It was a flat pink octagon, a potent species of Brazilian dex he bought from one of Zone's girls.
Trish
Jun 24 23:22
@AlexP lemme grab Neuromancer... should be not far.... I think Williams did a genius thing in it at some point... when he was describing the octagons....
Trish
Jun 24 23:13
Technobabel 101: name your invention after someone, never explain how it works XD
Trish
Jun 24 23:09
it's how biologists name stuff.^^
Trish
Jun 24 23:09
ok, at times you get a "I am fanboy of this other researcher, so name my shit after them and they have nothing to do with it", but that's rare.
Trish
Jun 24 23:07
As in "Who made the math" and "What is it" are the most common, and the former more often than the latter.
Trish
Jun 24 23:06
Physicist just suck at naming XD I mean, check any physics book, and you get things like "Lorentz force" or "Stefan-Boltzmann-Constant", "Newton's Law" or "Bernoulli Effect" on one end and "Photoeffect" "Gravitation" and "Law of conservation of Energy" on the other.
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Trish
Jun 24 23:04
Like, they might use the "Kobayashi Wormhole Field Equation" to map the "Takamura Scalar Field", get in position, and then use the "Arasaka 14-D Wormhole Driver" to open it.
Trish
Jun 24 23:00
Generally, if you want to describe a gravitation scalar field that for some reason allows doing wormhole math, physicists will probably name it after the first researcher that postulated it, or someone that managed to math it out or laid the foundation for it. Or they name it after the phenomenom.
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Trish
Jun 24 22:59
I'd shy away from using real theoretical particles for things they are not clearly related to.
Trish
Jun 24 22:57
the question is, what you want to express? You might us "Ricci Tensor Field" to describe the scalar field of ricci tensors.
Trish
Jun 24 22:54
Scalar field just means, that each coordinate only has one solution for the math. As in, in position XYZ at time T, you will always get result A, never B.
Ricci Curvature is something that only happens in einstein fieldcalculations, e.g. lensing light with gravity.

Graviscalar though... no, that's a theoretical particle, and not at all the Ricci curvature **tensor**
Trish
Jun 24 22:49
lesseee...
Trish
May 7 19:15
so at times, having notes on stuff nobody will care for for years might help, because you don't goof up and place... 2 different kingdoms to be on the other side of the same border district and not explainign how one became the other.
Trish
May 7 19:13
sure, not all readers will want to know "what else is in your world!" what isn't shown, but some might. Like, there's fans mapping out the locations of the districts of the hunger games based on tiny clues, pretty much trying to reconstruct the writer's notes.
 

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Trish
Jun 30 12:55
Vtm5 is not a vtr derivative.
 

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Trish
Jun 28 07:19
@Pelinore A single man can transport about 30 captured humanoids, if he has a rifle. Now, do the math how much food is in them.
Trish
Jun 28 03:19
This is entirely dependant on the surroundings: in a sandy desert, the amount of calories is running against 0, with modern rifles you could hunt about 150k calories per killed humanoid, if you harvest them to the bone.
 

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Trish
Jun 27 13:50
What makes obvious things like .50 BMG tracers not a solution to slowly deflating the thing while burning its hydrogen through the holes you shot into it with a machine gun?
 

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Trish
Jun 26 04:52
@user721108 that would do nothing, unless it fell onto the red button...
 

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Trish
Jun 24 17:41
@nick012000 but the phone runs a different source code, which was modified by Vertu
 

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Trish
May 12 12:52
@controlgroup "in development" is overstated. "under baseline investigation to figure out if it is possible in the first place as math does not fully seem to ban it (yet)"
 

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Trish
May 10 20:10
@NationWidePants Was the ruling added to tha Sage Advice Compendium? if not: it's not an official ruling, but a private person one, which is not binding on anyone. That's why we have a SAC.
Trish
May 10 20:09
@NationWidePants YES?! that's the whole point of there being an open license for D&D Products. the OGL.