[UA] Risking it

[Royal Minister of Stuff]

Everything I know about Statistics says there's a
risk.  It's a PERSONAL risk, but a risk just the same.
 Also, you CAN get hurt with blanks, as someone
mentioned, but that's not the point.
If someone hands you a gun with a Shit-eating grin and
says, "hey, let's play Russian Roulette. You go
first." and you have every reason to suspect there's
real bullets in the gun, you are taking a risk.
You have to calculate the odds from a personal
viewpoint.  Probability is a very relative
mathematical field.  It attempts to take data gained
from a subjective viewpoint and make an objective
statement with it.  The same thing either has to be
true with magic, making it a risk to shot yourself
with a gun loaded with blanks a real risk because you
beleive it is or it is universally untrue with magic
-meaning that the example given to start this whole
thread was untrue as well.  That was a personal
instance where magic punished the entropomancer, there
was no "significant" objective element to it.
You just can't have it both ways and call it fair. 
You can call it magic, of course, but that's RL magic,
not game magic.  RL magic lets its practicioners be
hanged, humiliated, bedazzled, maimed and confused
when it SHOULD have worked.  In a game, we expect a
bit more of our mystic forces.

--- Bailey Watts <didi_mau at hotmail.com> wrote:
> >"Fuck you!" Jake replies.
> >
> >Testing if a gun has blanks or real bullets when
> you don't know and haven't
> >checked, is an honest to god risk.  Now, if you
> pulled that gun from a box
> >at Weapons of Choice labeled (plugged
> gun--guaranteed safe) it's no charge.
> >If you just found that gun and didn't know and
> thought, hmm I'll test, yep
> >you took a risk.
> 
> If the gun is just filled with blanks there's no
> risk.  The folks here shot 
> me down for doing the blindfolded entropomancer with
> headphones cranked up 
> crossing the road.  If there's just blanks, or if
> there are no cars coming 
> there isn't a risk.
>
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