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<blockquote data-quote="Zander" data-source="post: 3008881" data-attributes="member: 1364">The technology level of most D&amp;D campaigns - at least originally - is circa late 15th - early 16th century Europe. While the developments in metallurgy etc from that period were quite advanced (more than many people nowadays realise), there is plenty of evidence that the armourers etc of the period didn't know why what they were doing worked, they just knew that it did. I have, though not to hand, one of the earliest European treatise on the making of gunpowder. By modern standards, it is full of errors in its explanation of what works and why. The scientific method was in its infancy, if that, at the time in European history that most closely resembles the classic worlds of D&amp;D.&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Science is the method of investigation and the results deriving from that investigation. The term isn't cognate with the physical world.I think that Twain had his tongue firmly planted in his cheek. Also, IIRC, it was as a result of the protagonist having travelled back in time from the US Civil War period when bicycles had long existed and introducing them to Dark Age Britain. &quot;Genuine&quot; should be taken to quality &quot;fantasy&quot;, not &quot;fan&quot;. I don't deny your fervour.No, WotC does.If that were true, they would not have bungled gnomes, knights etc.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Zander, post: 3008881, member: 1364"] The technology level of most D&D campaigns - at least originally - is circa late 15th - early 16th century Europe. While the developments in metallurgy etc from that period were quite advanced (more than many people nowadays realise), there is plenty of evidence that the armourers etc of the period didn't know [I]why[/I] what they were doing worked, they just knew that it did. I have, though not to hand, one of the earliest European treatise on the making of gunpowder. By modern standards, it is full of errors in its explanation of what works and why. The scientific method was in its infancy, if that, at the time in European history that most closely resembles the classic worlds of D&D. Science is the method of investigation and the results deriving from that investigation. The term isn't cognate with the physical world. I think that Twain had his tongue firmly planted in his cheek. Also, IIRC, it was as a result of the protagonist having travelled back in time from the US Civil War period when bicycles had long existed and introducing them to Dark Age Britain. "Genuine" should be taken to quality "fantasy", not "fan". I don't deny your fervour. No, WotC does.If that were true, they would not have bungled gnomes, knights etc. [/QUOTE]

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