Most of the WW staff expressed nothing but scorn and derision and belittlement for anyone whose campaigns didn't involve at least 80% PCs wallowing in angst and bemoaning their immortal state and struggling against inevitable ennui and blah blah blah blah blah.Originally Posted by 2D8HP
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2017-12-18, 09:46 PM (ISO 8601)Titan in the Playground
- Join Date
- May 2016
- Location
- The Lakes
Re: Changing the "Caster beats Mundane" paradigm
It is one thing to suspend your disbelief. It is another thing entirely to hang it by the neck until dead.
Verisimilitude -- n, the appearance or semblance of truth, likelihood, or probability.
The concern is not realism in speculative fiction, but rather the sense that a setting or story could be real, fostered by internal consistency and coherence.
The Worldbuilding Forum -- where realities are born.
