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Old 12-28-2014, 01:32 AM   #55
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Default Re: Literal vs. Abstract interpretation of GURPS combat and other things

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Originally Posted by Tomsdad View Post
There is also making something more realistic for reasons of realism.

You assuming an inherent driving relationship between two separate qualities, that may not actually exist.

"correlation is not causation"
Assuming making it more realistic neither make it easier nor harder, it falls under '#7. Making something different. A change has to make something more powerful, less powerful, or neither. A change caused by wishing to make something more realistic is the cause; an increase, decrease, or neither, in power, is the outcome.

You yourself say it's done for reasons of realism, and then proceed to hint that the relationship lacks causation. Maybe I'm misunderstanding something?
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