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Just caught this thread....

Science is a methodology, not a set of knowledge. If you were transported to an alternate dimension where the laws of physics were different, you could use science to determine those laws.

There's been a fair amount of sense here, and this is one of the best summaries of the true role of science. ::claps:: The methodology is iteratively used to propose->test->prove/disprove a theory, typically one which is derived on the end results of previous iterations of the methodology. At each iteration a new stability is achieved, a new understanding of the universe.

It's a straightforward, and elegant, process which has produced shed loads of benefit.

Any more than that, though (and I might have missed a previous thread), and an advocate risks promoting it to the religion "Science". Once it's gone that far, it risks facing off against another religion.

One can have "faith" in both science and God. The two are not diametrically opposed.

It could, though, be nice to explore some new pastures. So if you would, please tell me what other fantasy RPGs you recomend.

It may seem off the wall, but you could try vanilla RuneQuest (rather than Elric or Lankhmar or similar) from Mongoose. It's gritty, and has a very different feel to D&D/d20, but is also a very different style, too.

The industry (and gaming in general) is emerging onto a plane we've never quite seen before. And I don't doubt that it's only going to get more awesome from here.

I think that's a needed, cool-headed perspective (thanks to TigerDave, too). It is a great time to game.

By any external measurement, 4e is selling well, even though I've have spoken to some vendors who only keep small quantities on hand. But it's just got a lot more to fight against, now (ironically) the d20 variants are so well established.