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[athelind]

Indirectly. Kinda.

Today's Order of the Stick makes a specific and deliberate reference to Conservation of Ninjitsu, a law first identified and formulated by Your Obedient Serpent.

Liiiimelight, shining on me, telling the world who I am...

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[the-gneech.livejournal.com]

15 minutes of indirect fame, coming up!

-The Gneech

[scarfman]

I like how the examples cover two out of three of my top triumvirate of fandoms, Doctor Who and Buffy the Vampire Slayer. But I can't think of a Star Trek example myself. The Enterprise Incident? Naw, there wasn't a battle, Kirk bluffed out of it (actually his preferred strategy). I'm stumped.

[cpxbrex.livejournal.com]

The structure of D&D is designed, really, with the Conservation of Ninjitsu in mind. You KNOW that a lot of similar foes are, almost by the internal definition of the system, going to be low CR -- it's the way the game is designed, so that each encounter uses 1/4th of the party resources, on average. So, lots of foes? You know they're going to be individually weak. One foe? A bad ass mo' fo'. ;)

[cpxbrex.livejournal.com]

And I shall validate that Athelind has been preackin' the Conservation of Ninjitsu for at least as long as I've known him. So . . . something like 18 years? ;)

[tprjones.livejournal.com]

The new page on Dr. McNinja (http://drmcninja.com/page.php?pageNum=18&issue=8) goes even further with it and offers explanation.

[athelind.livejournal.com]

Holy Moley! Twice in one day!

[bear-helms.livejournal.com]

Isn't this rather like the computation of the IQ of a mob?

Take the highest IQ of the brightest individual in the mob, divide by the number of people in the mob = the IQ of the mob as a whole.

Wasn't called the conservation of intelligence when I read it, just the rule of mob IQ (or something like that).