[Torg] Nile Weirdness

[Chad Dickhaut]

--- On Sun, 1/25/09, Kansas Jim <ksjim at sdc.org> wrote:

> 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....

Exactly.  That's another reason I always preferred the "Weird Science is a WL" solution: it countermanded what I considered to be a silly and ill-advised statement in the published material.  Whenever someone brought up the published rule, I'd say "Sure, your Weird Science gizmo will work outside the Nile, same as any tool works in a realm whose axioms or WLs don't support it.  It works until you flub a roll.  Then it won't work at all until someone with Nile reality reconnects it." >:o)

Chad