bonus_realms Bonus Any of an infinite set of spaces wherein an individual might amass an infinite quantity of infinitely wonderful bonuses. 070411 ... u24 usually consisting in gold coins hordes of gold coins. did you ever think that, like, by level 7, sonic would so too busy dragging a massive great sack of gold coins behind him that he wouldn't be able to spin and trip out like he did? no? hmm. just me, then. 070411 ... misstree i've often wondered at just how many sets of armor a single character could carry around, in many a game. seriously, those things are heavy. 070411 ... fussy sufi listen to you both. whining about practicalities. see, if something is encumbered by some practical restriction, then it isn't a true bonus, as defined by some random person at " bonus ". so imagine some place where the wonderful things are not so encumbered. if you cannot do this, you may find comfort in the lyrical poem titled When_It_Seems_There_Are_No_More_Bonus_Realms. 070411 ... u24 but, look. My character has 15 weapons, right? and ammo for them all. and, as misstree so lucidly points out, armor. I mean, the designers can code nice little plink-plink sound effects whenever a shell drops on the floor, and even bullet holes in the wall where I miss. bloodstains? fine. but no matter how "realistic", I'm never going to believe that my guy can lug all that hardware around so quickly. it's just not going to happen. I mean, maybe if he had a little robot following him around, and maybe if the robot gets shot at too much you start losing weapons? that'd work. fine. like quake, you get killed, a tiny little backpack appears that other characters can pick up. you pick up the backpack. "you gain: 1 shotgun, 150 ammo, +200 armour, 1 nailgun, 200 ammo, 1 rocket launcher, 200 grenades" I mean guys?!? 200 grenades? how? this is just silly! 070412 ... misstree there's apparently some pocket dimension technology going on that they don't deign to mention. at least d&d gave us bags of holding. cheezy, but they did the trick. 070412 ... portable holes? 070413 ... Question the realm of a dream... Reality imposes its law on man, laws that he can only escape in dreams or in states of trance - or insanity. but a dream is real isn't it ? or is it not ? just like history is real ... but it is history. it was real ... is it still real ? so why do people say dreams arn't real ? 070413 ... you wanna bonus_realm? define "real" 070413 ... x who is anyone to deifine anything ? so therefore why should i define real because to me it could be something completely different to the next person... How do i know if the taste you taste from an apple is the same as what i taste from an apple ? To define something is to "mark the boundry or limits of something." Are you are asking me what are the limits of reality... ? or are you asking what are the limits of illusion ? Awareness and concentration bring you grounding ... a feeling of control... what is real and what is not... CLARITY... this is what people call reality... this is another Realm, but at the same time... everything in this world illudes me whether i am confussed or not. i prefer to say everything is Maya. 070414 ... u24 but by suggesting that it resists definition, aren't you implicitly marking the outer limits of it? just that in your theory, the outer limits are infinitely far off. to say that something could be completely different from one person to the next is to give just as solid a definition of reality as the person who maintains that it's all the same from one person to the next. who is anyone to assert the undefinability of anything? 070414 ... Strideo If you find that you have a hard time carrying a lot of stuff then maybe you should get a better inventory system. I find that when I go shopping and my inventory is getting full that it's best to go to my car and transfer some items from my inventory to my trunk. Also, I've found that it isn't such a good idea to just enter other peoples' homes and just take items from their treasure chests. You should really just stick to the treasure chests you randomly find lying around outside. ... 070414 ... fix dear u24, why do you need to define anything? why do you need words? why do you need answers? why are you worried what is real and what is not...? you need proof of everytrhing because are afraid to be alone in your beliefs thoughts and existence. 070414 ... starboy it's called a "Pouch of Holding" or something like that. My lvl 17 drunkard picked one up somewhere. Kinda nifty. 070414 ... u24 ehwhat? I wasn't trying to define anything! I was just saying that if someone says that something is undefinable, that is itself a definition. 070414 what's it to you? who go blather from