[RPM] "Path of Energy ends where others begin". Huh?

[Dwarf99]

Originally Posted by vicky_molokh

And chemical energy is required for fire to function, i.e. Path of Matter.

Chemical energy within the body so still Path of Body.

[vicky_molokh]

Originally Posted by Dwarf99

Chemical energy within the body so still Path of Body.

I don't think a dead firewood counts as Body anymore.

[Dwarf99]

Originally Posted by vicky_molokh

I don't think a dead firewood counts as Body anymore.

I would have counted it as matter when it was both alive and dead personally.

In any case, what I should have said was 'that the body requires to function'.

[Dwarf99]

Originally Posted by vicky_molokh

And chemical energy is required for fire to function, i.e. Path of Matter.

I just realized that I confused your misdirection of my statement. You attribute the change to Path of Matter that involves energy affecting matter, but why do you not attribute the same change to Path of Body for energy that is required for the body to operate?

[Dalillama]

The thing is that the Paths owe as much to a kind of averaged metaphysics as they do to actual modern physics, and the merging can produce some funny results. Path of Energy is used for fire because you're basically putting heat in directly, or removing it as the case may be, so you'd use Path of Energy to light wood on fire or make someone spontaneously combust. If you wanted to give someone a fatal fever, though, that would be a Path of Body effect. To create a block of ice around someone, use Path of Matter; to freeze flesh, use Path of Energy; to cause hypothermia or frostbite, you could probably use Body or Energy; Energy would cause the air around the target to get bitterly cold, and thus cause effects of said cold in the usual way, while Body could cause the effects of hypothermia or frostbite by acting directly on the body.

[Flyndaran]

Vaguely renaissance physics, not modern, is how I keep it straight.
Or magico-babble, not technobabble.

[Dalillama]

Originally Posted by Flyndaran

Vaguely renaissance physics, not modern, is how I keep it straight.
Or magico-babble, not technobabble.

That too; there's a lot of semi-Aristotelian physics built into a lot of flavors of metaphysics, so RPM has a weird hybrid of the two not dissimilar to that era.