Baldur's Gate : The Sword Coast Chronicles : NWN2 Persistent World

DM Ghost wrote: ↑Thu Aug 11, 2022 4:30 pm I just teleport to whatever part of the map I need to be at. Up your game, Z.

On a more serious note, whenever faced with a fork in the road or a dungeon, I've learned to always go left in D&D. This is something my friends and I figured out years ago, playing PnP.

I always go left when I don't know the layout. But that kind of plays into what I was saying about counterclockwise. You start out turning left, because turning left comes more natural to us.

And there is actually science behind it, believe it or not. If a person were to be in a desert where they could see absolutely no landmarks, they would walk in giant circles trying to get out. This is because they have a dominant leg. I'm working off of memory here, and not googling it right now, but the dominant leg usually corresponds to the dominant hand (kind of like a dominant eye does). And since most people are right handed, meaning they'd be right leg dominant, they would have a tendency to walk in a large counterclockwise circle.

That's why we have a tendency to run coutnerclockwise, and it feels weird to run clockwise. Because we turn easier on our dominant leg, and are literally going against our natural tendencies of turning left. For left handed people, they have been in a right handed dominated society for so long, that they usually adapt to the right handed ways of turning left.

I think I read something about if you put spiders in a maze, they will always keep going left to fnd the way out. Or was it rats?

Clockwise obviously, because the left path seems like it's continuing on from the entrance while the right path is joining in.

Zanniej wrote: ↑Fri Aug 12, 2022 7:21 am

JustAnotherGuy wrote: ↑Thu Aug 11, 2022 3:56 pm

Zanniej wrote: ↑Thu Aug 11, 2022 2:54 pm

This explains why the one time I went clockwise, it felt so weird!

Nascar goes counter clockwise. And runners on a track run counterclockwise. Basketball players tend to naturally run laps counterclockwise. If you ever try and run a track/etc clockwise, it just feels so weird.

Huh, who knew science was involved!
This is nice to know!

whatsittoya wrote: ↑Thu Aug 11, 2022 4:04 pm I take the left fork first, clear it out, then take the longer and more winding path to the right.

So clockwise, left to right, like a normal person.

So you're saying I'm not a normal person!?

DM Ghost wrote: ↑Thu Aug 11, 2022 4:30 pm I just teleport to whatever part of the map I need to be at. Up your game, Z.

I also teleport around the map counter clockwise ... I thought you could only teleport to what you could see?

DM Ghost wrote: ↑Thu Aug 11, 2022 4:30 pm On a more serious note, whenever faced with a fork in the road or a dungeon, I've learned to always go left in D&D. This is something my friends and I figured out years ago, playing PnP.

But why?
Sounds like you have good reasoning behind this. Let me in on it!

Nice try but you're a cow.

whatsittoya wrote: ↑Sat Aug 13, 2022 5:49 pm

Zanniej wrote: ↑Fri Aug 12, 2022 7:21 am

JustAnotherGuy wrote: ↑Thu Aug 11, 2022 3:56 pm

Nascar goes counter clockwise. And runners on a track run counterclockwise. Basketball players tend to naturally run laps counterclockwise. If you ever try and run a track/etc clockwise, it just feels so weird.

Huh, who knew science was involved!
This is nice to know!

whatsittoya wrote: ↑Thu Aug 11, 2022 4:04 pm I take the left fork first, clear it out, then take the longer and more winding path to the right.

So clockwise, left to right, like a normal person.

So you're saying I'm not a normal person!?

DM Ghost wrote: ↑Thu Aug 11, 2022 4:30 pm I just teleport to whatever part of the map I need to be at. Up your game, Z.

I also teleport around the map counter clockwise ... I thought you could only teleport to what you could see?

DM Ghost wrote: ↑Thu Aug 11, 2022 4:30 pm On a more serious note, whenever faced with a fork in the road or a dungeon, I've learned to always go left in D&D. This is something my friends and I figured out years ago, playing PnP.

But why?
Sounds like you have good reasoning behind this. Let me in on it!

Nice try but you're a cow.

WHO TOLD YOU THAT!?
Foiled again...