[Torg] Jumping in Torg

[Peter Darley]

Folks,

	I haven’t been following this super well, so maybe I’m being dense, but here's my thought on the following:

"Even if the Flash doesn’t build ramps, and even if his vertical jumping remains unchanged, his jump distance increases even without a ramp.  Consider – I, in real life, can jump and spend one second in the air.  Assuming that when the Flash’s feet leave the group he doesn’t slow way down due to authenticity, then 1 second – average human jumping hang time – is enough for him to travel truly legendary distance horizontally, even if he never gets more than 2 or 3 feet off of the ground.  The point being that even a weak human jump such as even I can do, as out of shape as I am, is more than even hang time to go very far when moving at the speeds that the Flash does.  And of course, the Flash is free to build ramps."

	It seems to me that the flash, which someone mentioned had a hard time getting over the speed of sound (767 MPH), would be taking flight from every slight bump in the road, as a car that is trying to move that fast would.  Clearly there is some force holding him to the ground or else every little hill would be like a ramp to the general lee, which he is at least an order of magnitude faster than, so I would argue that he wouldn't be able to jump _at all_ while running at super speed.  Can he turn off this force and jump?  Maybe so, but it certainly doesn't logically follow from the descriptions to his powers.  

	My point is this:  I agree with those arguing that effects based and 'power stunts' character creation are the best thing to go with.  Just saying that he has the speed power and should be able to do the logical things based on that power doesn't work, because in a very real sense there is no logic to it.  The flash can clearly jump far because he's so damned fast.  The flash clearly can't jump at all because he's stuck to the ground through some force.  Obviously Superman's clothes will shred when he flies through the air at supersonic speeds.  Obviously Superman's clothes are protected by his hero aura so won't shred.  There's no way to derive this stuff, it just depends on what the author wants to do.

Thanks,
Peter Darley