How to Stop the Deus Ex Machina: Difference between revisions

=== Setting / World ===

Beyond making the immediate area force or stop an action, the setting itself can be engineered to keep the characters in line. This can be done by altering the "default" settings from [[Real Life]] to make the plot work, characters can be made to act differently than they would in the real world. For example, if the fictional city the characters inhabit doesn't accept recordings from wiretaps as valid evidence, then it justifies their trouble with bringing down a crime boss. This manipulation can be used not just on legal or social laws, but also ''physical'' ones. In a setting with [[Magic and Powers]], making it so the [[Phlebotinum]] that gives the heroine and [[Big Bad]] powers [[Anti-Magic|only works]] in the [[Dark World]], so neither can attack each other in the [[Muggles]] world with a decisive edge. With this kind of limitation, remember to be [[Magic A Is Magic A|consistent]] and to state the limitation early enough that it doesn't become an [[Ass Pull]].

 

== Examples ==