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[Sindri]

Originally Posted by jason taylor

No it doesn't. The point is, it doesn't have to NOT follow it. And limiting to one implausibility renders traditional space stories illegitimate.

However the basic point is valid. It should be reasonably if not strictly plausible(even real life is not strictly plausible) and the author should understand that being allowed to use gimmicks does not mean being allowed to have anything happen.

Obviously you don't have to follow the advice of the one change rule, that's how advice works.

In your "traditional space stories" gravitics, aside from it's use as a budgetary necessity in visual science fiction or a basis for FTL, most of the time it's just tacked on in a way that doesn't improve the story and could be gotten rid of without problem.

The one change rule isn't adamant. There are examples with two necessary changes (especially if FTL is one of them.) for the desired setting that are still portrayed reasonably. The important thing is that unless the setting has wildly different physical laws adding changes at the drop of a hat is neither necessary nor desirable.

That said this is a tangent and unrelated to the subject matter of the thread.