Just to be clear, there's other origins and story themes than magic, k?

Frankly, if I were your GM I'd tell you to stuff it. While what you're talking about can definitely be overused, and isn't a great story telling mechanism, it can have its place, and it's completely reasonable in such cases for the answer to be "no one else knows how" or even just "you can't". The GM should be able to tell you why - "because I said so" is a crap reason. But it's extraordinarily presumptuous of players to demand that anything they see an NPC do should be available to them to do also.

This is why I originally didn't want to legitimise your concerns with a response longer than a couple of sentences. You're not interested in a discussion...and your grasp of English isn't the best.

Oh well. Live and learn.

For what it's worth, I appreciated your post, and do want to reply to it. (And not to trash it.) I just have had time yet - it's been a busy last two days. My reply to PleaseRecycle above is the longest thing I've had time to post.

Not sure it matters to you if I respond or not, but since I really pushed hard to get you to post it, I at least wanted you to know I did read it.

Hm, wait, did I misattribute that quote? I thought Neuronia posted that...

Edit: I did. Sorry, dude, I think that was a multi-quote mishap. I was trying to respond to Neuronia.

That sounds like you're saying the City of Heroes world no longer supports invention: that anything anyone is doing lots of people should be doing, because everything that can be discovered already has been multiple times.

Maybe he's not the only one that traverses Dreamspace. Maybe he's just the only one we know of so far. Maybe he's just the best one. Maybe he's the *last* one, and something bad happened to the others. There's no specific reason why its even a good thing to force the devs to reveal that entire backstory instantly.

Ah, my mistake for not thinking of that. I just felt like I'd gone crazy for a moment, heh.

* Files away potential means of driving PleaseRecyle mad for future contingency...

First, let me repeat my thanks to you for posting this when you didn't want to give details. I actually do appreciate that.

I do not quote most of the post below, because I have no specific comments or rebuttals to most of it. You can assume that anything I don't reply to below I either agree with or at least accept without argument.

I would say here that I consider an awful lot of science fiction to already require this acceptance. Consider Arcanaville's comments about Superman's powers being "fueled" by our sun's radiation. That is couched in terms that suggest it relies on as-yet-undiscovered physical laws, but as presented, we know with almost complete certainty that it's actually not possible. Perhaps the difference in effect this has between you and I is that I put the possibility of such a thing being possible under the physical laws of the universe at about the same level of likelihood as of magic being real, but well-hidden from most of the people on Earth.

It seems to me that this is not a simple matter of willing suspension of disbelief. It's not just that magic stretches your credulity to the breaking point. Rather, it's that magic introduces things that you wish to actively reject. In theory you could accept the impossible things "magic" allows, but you don't want to because you disapprove of their thematic implications. They aren't any more unbelievable than the non-magic things, you just don't like them in your setting.

If I go to, say, a movie that introduces magic, gods, etc., I can choose to suspend my disbelief in those things. If the movie breaks my suspension of disbelief, it usually does so by presenting those things in internally inconsistent ways, by plain plot holes, or by bad acting. That's quite separate from me going into a movie and deciding I'm not going to invest in it because I find the notion of real magic, gods and the like distasteful.

I find this while sentence quite bizarre. I see no meaningful indication that you have done what you say, nor any way you can claim to know you have done it more deeply than I. I made no claims about the form of magic from which you could make such an inference, nor did you previously clearly claim to reject it on the basis of its form. My obvious conclusion is that this near-closing comment is an unfortunate stamp of malarkey on an otherwise thought-provoking post.

Well, to be honest, the 'Dreamspace' concept sort of popped up unexpectedly. The only foreshadowing we had on it is the Doctor's mention of it in the Midnighter Archivist clue; we still don't know what it is, what function it has among the other branches off of reality like the Spirit Plane, Psychic Plane, Ether Plane, Netherworld, Hell, etc, etc.