What sort of circumstances would need to arise in a fantasy world for ALL combat to be handled through nonlethal, ritualized, magical combat like Touhou's spell card battles?
Ideally, it should NOT involve divine intervention. These battles should be considered "civilized" enough that they are a socially acceptable means of resolving desputes.
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Pretty much everyone has enough power to destroy the world if they really try. In fact, this is about the hundredth time they've had to recreate the world and everyone's gotten a little tired of it by now.
come to think of it, Tet is actually the god of traditional games. huh.
Tet is best god. i love him/her/it/them. post more Tet.
Didn't that anime die after the first season due to people not even watching it?
Technically, this isn't even divine intervention. Tet altered the fundamental rules of his universe, then just kicked back and let good sportsmanship sort everything out.
Mutually assured destruction.
Anyway, to seriously answer OP: in Touhou, both humans and youkai have a vested interest in upholding the spellcard system, the humans because they'll go extinct in Gensokyo without it, the youkai because they're dependant on humans for their own continued existence (even the youkai who don't literally eat humans require humans to believe they exist, in order to exist).
So there you go: make the repurcussions of flouting the rules an existential threat.
yes. this is a true sadness.
True that.
Tet won the fucking war of the gods for some reason.
He won by hanging in the background and being the last androgyne standing
What do you mean ALL combat? As in nations do this instead of going to war? People do this instead of taking each other to court? Street gangs do this instead of having back alley brawls?
In any situation
is easily the neatest way of resoling the problem.
It was expected, as shows like NGNL are created only to boost sales of the novels.
It's a damn shame about No Game No Life. That show was fantastic.
>All the gods go to war
>The god of gaming wins because of an understanding of game theory
>Turns the world into a giant board game
>War in the traditional sense is magically impossible, all conflicts solved by betting on games
Tet really is best god.
Something happened that brought the world so close to annihilation that even the super evil as fuck doomsday cultist guys got cold feet and decided that maybe there were better alternatives to this.
The fuck? The anime was fine. The studio just never ever does second seasons.
It's a long standing cultural tradition, nobody remembers why it started.
The specific style of combat is itself a form of magical rite that is either needed for something or is binding in some way to people doing it.
The spellcards or whatever aren't the only way of doing combat, but anyone who breaks the rules and uses proper combat is immediately at the top of everyone elses shitlist, and they are allowed to use proper combat as well to hunt them down- breaking the rules is seen as the worst crime there is
>What sort of circumstances would need to arise in a modern world for ALL combat to be handled through less lethal, regulated combat like Geneve convention, which bans cruel weapons and WMDs, and enforces taking people who surrendered as PoWs?
Um, civilized world that doesn't want everything to be shit forever just because some people can't show restraint, OP?
It's the same fucking shit. Some people can't restrain themselves, so they need to be restrained by the system.
A combination of infertility and extreme longevity. Since no new Life is created they agreed to battle by nonlethal means
>not solving all conflicts via PUZZLE TIME, which is puzzles, but on drugs
user, please. It's like you don't even Phi Brain.
The video game Pyre is this.
It isn't out yet though.
Some powerful entity or group of entities forced these rules into place by convincing everyone that following them would be in their best interests, and obliterating any dissidents along with everyone they ever loved.
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>Ideally, it should NOT involve divine intervention.
Wizards != divine intervention.
It's not even wizards, it's just plain rule of steel. Might makes right and all that.
There is literally not one good thing about it.
So were you born with no taste or did you lose it in an accident?
Tet was born just as the literal and conceptual trophy of winning the war itself appeared because of the concentration of godly power fired by Riku made every single one of the big players in the final battle ground too weak to get it.
Everyone at birth is fitted with a mcguffin that kills them if they start proper fighting. Somehow every birth is caught, none ever go undetected. Don't ask me how.