Recent content by murphzero

“You see, real FTL starship fuel tanks are like this…” is just as ridiculous as “You see, real elves are like this…” I mean, SF literally has 'fiction' in the name...

I think the larger point is that the pursuit of realism, in the context of a game that utterly depends on being unrealistic, is wasted effort. There are rules, there are interpretations, and there are the game effects that result from them. Game effects offer & deny choices to players, with...

I think, when we are all discussing an imagined universe where faster-than-light travel is commonplace and psionics exist, any insistence on hyper-realism is going to necessarily be selective. Rather than insisting on your imagined theory of far future realism, it would be more useful to...