No, You Did Not Find Something That Breaks Dungeons And Dragons – Or Any TTRPG – In The Rules.

No, you did not find something in the rules that breaks D&D. That’s a categorically true statement, based on “observations” in that world, and operates under the same family of logic that demonstrates how any infinite time loop ultimately will collapse. First, language is a lossy compression algorithm. For example, there are few atheist arguments that annoy me more than “If God is all powerful, can He create a mountain so large He cannot move it?” It irritates me because its mistakes a language problem for a reality problem. Our brains only partially manage to interpret four dimensions and take shortcuts constantly when processing data about the world around us. Add to that the lossy compression algorithm we call “language,” and, well, yeah, of course it doesn’t make sense. These problems also occur in any fictional universe we create. The language we use to describe the “rules” are, at best, a lossy compression of a flawed and abstracted model. We can argue about those semantics all…