Paul Farquhar
Legend
I think the reason rapiers were never ubiquitous in real life is they were useless for anything apart from duelling.Rapiers were invented in 1600s so should not be ubiquitous
5e makes them far too good.
I think the reason rapiers were never ubiquitous in real life is they were useless for anything apart from duelling.Rapiers were invented in 1600s so should not be ubiquitous
I think their point is, Predetetor is science fiction, but infravision is a very real ability possessed by many real world animals. Ultravision too. Bees use it, and many "white" flowers have colours invisible the to humans.Infravision
I'm pretty sure he read Lord of the Rings, even if he didn't like it very much.Gygax seems to have consumed a massive amount of pulp fiction and 19th century medieval romances as a youth. I think it's equally likely that he accumulated his vocabulary and neologisms from Appendix N and such.
And it still is a lot less fantasy and more scientific than "sees in dark".I think their point is, Predetetor is science fiction, but infravision is a very real ability possessed by many real world animals. Ultravision too. Bees use it, and many "white" flowers have colours invisible the to humans.
The idea of a "visible spectrum" is human-centric. It's defined by the wavelengths humans can see. There is no reason to suppose anything that isn't human would see the same wavelengths.
And it still is a lot less fantasy and more scientific than "sees in dark".
It's more realistic than "sees in the dark". And more interesting. There are a lot of different ways to see in the dark, and different ways to counter it.And it still is a lot less fantasy and more scientific than "sees in dark".
The ability to talk to species with different sensory capabilities would mean the folk of GenericFantasyland would learn this stuff a lot sooner than real world scientists did.Would the polymorph spell give wizards the ability to find out that some animals see bluer than blue and others "see" heat as off the red end?