CRAZYUNCLEBLAIR'S PROFILE

author=LockeZ
Liberty how are you even still a mod

Ouch.

OK, you fuckwits have lost your minds. On one side we have a crown wearing mongoloid that wants to literally get word fucked, and another cum stain that should have ended up as a batch of knuckle babies that can't even take the two seconds it would take to find out if someone is insulting him. And this other pleb, don't get me started. House, as his avatar, you're cool we get it. You don't care what others think- awesome! Go back to licking that seeping wound that tries to pass itself off as a 5 cent vagina and just quit while you're ahead.

(I needed that, sorry I'm stuck at work tonight.)

author=Jeroen_Sol
It's an interesting plot device, make it happen!

We can't really interact with any dimensions except our three, so asking whether a fourth dimension exists is kinda like asking if a god exists, but if you work out these manifestations as seems in 3D from 4D objects overlapping in our space well, I'm sure you can make it work! They'd be breaking causality and probably entropy laws, but who cares?

The way time would work in your scenario is much like you said. All the 3D universes would share their ct-axis in their respective Minkowskian spaces, so moving forward in time in one universe would make the other universes move forward in time as well. But be careful with causality. Because of the displacement in w-direction, as you've called it, it will be nigh impossible for different universes to interact with one another in any way, because mater or forces don't move in the w-direction. The only exception to this would be your seems where the universes meet. You could have the main character travel from universe to universe. taking items along with them for quests in other universes, but you can't have them change anything in one universe while being in another.

A wise man once said (and i mean this for total comedic effect, no offence bud) , " Fuck you, what?"

Just let me leave this here. I made the mistake of watching this with my father while jacked up on some heavy pain killers post surgery... ENJOY!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hf2CxZPl7KI

author=Zephyr
Instead of the characters dying when dropping to 0, they could enter a mortally wounded state where unable to fight or at a limited capacity. When mortally wounded, a second life bar quickly depletes(like a time limit). Once that reaches 0, the character is truly dead and you may proceed to a Game Over.

Now, this may sound similar to the normal K.O.-state in RPGs, but it can still lead to a Game Over if one character dies. The life bar(LP instead of HP) makes it more forgiving. The wounded state should at least catch your immediate attention and not make a character getting wiped too suddenly.

This system kind of sounds like what Square used in Final Fantasy Tactics when a character was KO'd but had a few turns to be resurrected before they disappeared. But this sounds more like the Stress System that is the major feature of Darkest Dungeon. Both of which are wonderful mechanics.