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Originally Posted by Evilhalfling

I felt the way the OP did when playing earlier editions, I was careful to husband the occurrence of magical beasts and aberrations, I used a lot of humanoids, specifically whatever I had decided lived in that part of the world.

With 4e I decided just to cut loose, there were drakes instead of ravens, kobolds had more than one caster per tribe, their is a unicorn in the Inn stable. The chickens ARE blessed by a god. Its not just a story from far off parts, that turns out to be exaggerated its actually happening.

Simulation bows out to the game.
Can this be sustained? Is a world that ignores certain logical details more fun? I'm not sure, thats why my group is calling it a test campaign.

Besides how often would a bear attack a well armed and armored group of men? How many wolf attacks involved a group of healthy humans?

See... sometimes our assumptions about "mundane" reality fall way short of how crazy it can actually get.

You might find this interesting

Wolf of Soissons - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The first victims of the wolf were a pregnant woman and her unborn child, attacked in the parish of Septmont on the last day of February. Diligent locals had taken the infant, a scant four or five months old, from the womb to be baptized before it died when the wolf struck again not three hundred yards from the scene of the first attack. One Madame d'Amberief and her son survived only by fighting together.
On 1 March near the hamlet of Courcelles a man was attacked by the wolf and survived with head wounds. The next victims were two young boys, named Boucher and Maréchal, who were savaged on the road to Paris, both badly wounded. A farmer on horseback lost part of his face to the wolf before escaping to a local mill, where a boy of seventeen was caught unawares and slain. After these atrocities the wolf fled to Bazoches, where it partially decapitated a woman and severely wounded a girl, who ran screaming to the village for help. Four citizens of Bazoches set an ambush at the body of the latest victim, but when the wolf returned it proved too much for them and the villagers soon found themselves fighting for their lives. The arrival of more peasants from the village finally put the wolf to flight, chasing it into a courtyard where it fought with a chained dog. When the chain broke the wolf was pursued through a pasture, where it killed a number of sheep, and into a stable, where a servant and cattle were mutilated.
The episode ended when one Antoine Saverelle, former member of the local militia, tracked the wolf to small lane armed with a pitchfork. The wolf sprang at him but he managed to pin its head to the ground with the instrument, holding it down for roughly fifteen minutes before an armed peasant came to his aid and killed the animal. Saverelle received a reward of three-hundred livres from Louis XV of France for his bravery.

and these:

• Beast of Gévaudan, a contemporary
• Wolves of Périgord, more contemporaries
• Wolf of Sarlat, another rogue
• Wolves of Paris, man-eaters from 1450 Paris
• Wolf of Ansbach

And tell me THIS story wouldn't make a great DnD (Cthulhu Dark Ages) campaign:

Peter Stumpp - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia