What is "special" about our reality?

[I'mBob]

So that's a question I had in mind for a while, thought of sharing it with you.


Every other reality we see have something special about it, but what in our reality?
To make the question a little clearer, I will explain it in another way:

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http://duke.a-comics.ru/fmk/%20-%20the% ... lanations.

In most realities, Minmax is dumb and kin is smart, but in reality 51, Kin is dumb and Minmax is smart.

In most realities, goblins are weak first-levels monsters, but in reality 88, they are a much stronger race.

And I can go on like that for a lot of time. It seems there is some kind of a pattern:

In most reality X, but in reality 000, Y.

So what are the X and Y in our reality? Or maybe our reality is the main one, and the others are just spin-offs of it?

I thought that possibly Kin and Minmax love are our special, but it seems too minor for me...

Share your thoughts!

[Borys]

In most realities MM doesn't care about/wants to kill/is only sexually interested in Kin, but in our reality he loves her.

[LAYF]

Hmm... arrow flies.. I believe the arrow flies..
Hmmm.. no not really... hmm...
maybe our reality is the only one where some individuals are controlled by entities from another existence all together (AKA has players) that, would be a big difference...

[thinkslogically]

You're only considering it 'not special' from the perspective of someone whose reality is very similar (i.e. their D&D rules follow the standard form). The other realities' forum readers would probably think 'our' reality is just as weird because everyone's tanned, small, massive, good etc.

[LAYF]

Hmm.. I do think of it more in the line of X has Paladin cross class, so there are many paladins, Y have Rouge cross class and Z have extremely many rings. besides that, all follow the same rules.. so what are our cross class/rings/thing.. and my guess is "Players".

[thinkslogically]

Maybe rules was the wrong word... 'Campaign setting' might be more appropriate.

[Dagazzard]

I agree with what been said. The spin off thing... And the part about in this reality there is love.

Remember Psimax: http://www.goblinscomic.org/12302011/
"No real point of diversion from the most common multiversal attributes."

He also goes on to say two pages later that love was so mathematical improbable that he suspected they to be the only reality to "suffer from that state".

[Godbot]

I would call Minmax throwing a friggin' birthday party for Kin because he wants to be able to like her after one conversation pretty drastic. When you compare that to, say, Ruby's universe, where the difference is basically just "Kin is a badass," it's not that far-fetched that that's the only difference.

If you look at the altsplanation page, a lot of the alternate FMKs aren't that weird. Plenty of 'em are just recolors. The full-page altsplanations we're getting are the most interesting ones, but a lot of the others seem pretty mundane.

[Sutremaine]

The face-junk reality don't look that much different, but they have an interesting backstory / campaign setting. We'll probably see something interesting from one of the realities that's currently 'just a recolour'.

[Godbot]

I think you're missing the point of what I'm saying. A lot of the alternate FMKs have really spectacular and visible differences from the others, like Minmax being some sort of awful clawmonster or everyone having tentacles, but realities that are kind of mundane by comparison are not unheard-of. Reality #156 is one of them, and Reality #80 is another.

That doesn't mean realities where FMK looks relatively normal are automatically boring; it just means that Reality #156 isn't that out-of-place among the others.

[AntMac]

Re: thread title. Too easy.

What is "special" about our reality? "I am in it".

[Loyal Backstabber]

My main theories are that 156 is good when most realities are evil, the goblins are different from the standard goblins, or even that Kore exists. After all, which goblins survived beyond Complains,what classes they became, or even if they became adventurers wouldn't have affected FMK up until then, although some of the realities almost assuredly had them be strong enough to do things in Brassmoon. Then there are things like the Kliks (although that would mean that the short drow might have survived a bit longer) which had little impact on FMK, and then things like Kore, Hawl, Saves a Fox, that one Owlbear, and Mister Fingers that have had no affect on them whatsoever.

All things considered, reality 156 may very well be extremely different from the others, but in ways that wouldn't make FMK stand out just yet.

[OnceUponATime]

Or it could be something completely unrelated to the Goblins storyline.

[WhispersToSquirrels]

This thread reminds me of the Anthropic Principle.

[DrinksTooMuchCoffee]

This thread reminds me of the Anthropic Principle.

Isn't it just a little too coincidental that there's both a universe and thinking observers to apply that principle to?