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<blockquote data-quote="Ancalagon" data-source="post: 8433314" data-attributes="member: 23">Ok, let me address this, broadly.EVERYTHING that is not magical or described by the lore as different should be assumed to work like the real world.&nbsp; Why?&nbsp; Because the players don't live in the D&amp;D world.&nbsp; They haven't grown up in it and learned all its quirks. If nothing can be assumed to work the way it does in the real world, the players can become lost in a morass of uncertainty.&nbsp;&nbsp; Does wood float?&nbsp; Do pigs lay eggs?&nbsp; Are metal tipped arrows better than rubber ones?&nbsp; Do more coins weight more than less coins?&nbsp; Is ale toxic?&nbsp; Does the sun or the moon shed heat?&nbsp; Do people need food?&nbsp; Is time 2 dimensional? (yes, btw)etc etc etc etc etc.There are so many things that the players have to keep track of already (longswords do more damage than short swords.&nbsp; Fireball has a 20 foot radius.&nbsp; Acid and fire work well vs trolls.&nbsp; Dwarven exiles are not to be trusted.&nbsp; Hundreds of other things).&nbsp; We need a stable footing from which we can explore the wonders of the imaginary world, and to help us understand it.If everything is bizarro world, then the wonders of the world aren't special anymore, and the PCs can't navigate the challenges of the world because they can't make any assumption.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ancalagon, post: 8433314, member: 23"] Ok, let me address this, broadly. EVERYTHING that is not magical or described by the lore as different should be assumed to work like the real world. Why? Because the players [I]don't live in the D&D world[/I]. They haven't grown up in it and learned all its quirks. If nothing can be assumed to work the way it does in the real world, the players can become lost in a morass of uncertainty. Does wood float? Do pigs lay eggs? Are metal tipped arrows better than rubber ones? Do more coins weight more than less coins? Is ale toxic? Does the sun or the moon shed heat? Do people need food? Is time 2 dimensional? (yes, btw) etc etc etc etc etc. There are so many things that the players have to keep track of already (longswords do more damage than short swords. Fireball has a 20 foot radius. Acid and fire work well vs trolls. Dwarven exiles are not to be trusted. Hundreds of other things). We need a stable footing from which we can explore the wonders of the imaginary world, and to help us understand it. If everything is bizarro world, then the wonders of the world aren't special anymore, and the PCs can't navigate the challenges of the world because they can't make any assumption. [/QUOTE]

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