[Torg] Nile Weirdness

[Kansas Jim]

Ah, the joy of recovering from a computer crash, finally being able
to reply to email again....

Chad Dickhaut wrote:

> --- On Wed, 1/14/09, ksjim at sdc.org <ksjim at sdc.org> wrote:
> 
>> If Eternium can be used to power technology that operates
>> outside the boundaries of the Tech axiom, could it also be
>> used in ways which operate outside the boundaries of the
>> other axioms? Could it give the Nile spells and miracles
>> above and beyond what its axioms normally allow? The Nile
>> kind of does this already with its Nile Mathematics and
>> Engineering spells and Egyptian Religion miracles, maybe the
>> missing element (har) in those rulesets is that they require
>> Eternium too?

> That's certainly a valid way to approach things, and barring adding a new World Law to NE it's the most straightforward, internally-consistent solution.  I always went the WL route.  

I usually did too, though it does create a conflict with published
material which says that Weird Science will work outside the Nile if
the local reality supports its Tech Rating. But if WS is backed by a
WL then its use will always be a contradiction outside of the Nile
reality. That never bothered me though as I simply cannot wrap my
mind around the idea that a gadget which lets you Jump fifty feet
in a single bound will work without contradiction in Core Earth....

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