#Time-Dilation Prove
19-Oct-87 19:02:15
Sb: #90088-#Time-Dilation Prove
Fm: Richard Rae/SYSOP 76703,4253
To: Nick Sullivan/Transactor 76703,4353
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"… Ring of Invisibility… makes no explanation at all…"
Not in every case. I have read fantasy which does attempt to explain how magic
works. A group of local GMs have a compelete FRP fantasy world, compelete with
a treatise on magic, which is nothing more than a method of weaving a
trans-dimensional matrix which resonates with, and focuses, magical power in a
certain fashion to do whatever is done. In the case of a ring of invisibility,
the matrix causes a selective bending of light which causes the wearer to
appear to not be there… but only under specific circumstances. Which is not
really different from an SF description of how a force field generator might
work. 8)
Point only being that I still maintain the distinction between SF and Fantasy
can at times be blurry.
Rick