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<blockquote data-quote="Helspar" data-source="post: 1652824" data-attributes="member: 4849">Making a realistic world to role play in I find makes the story more believable. Suspending the players disbelief is key to immersion within the game and, I find, a better roleplaying experience. I mean my world don't typically have purple trees, random gravity, or a green sky, but if they did then there has to be a reason for it.In the case of having say three moons, how do they affect the world? One could work in various socio-religious-political factors, not to mention enviornmental factors - in this case how does the tide work? Or does it ever get really dark at night? While such things might seem extraneous to gameplay for the most part if you're the DM and it does become an issue you better have something for it, otherwise the players once again find it hard to &quot;suspend their disbelief&quot;. Just like any good fantasy novel, the world has to be realistic in its own context. (Hauls out the Tolkien card) The realm of Middle Earth is a good example - while it is high fantasy, its easy to believe that the wold could work that way - in fact Tolkien creates a world with its own creation theory - a little much work for most aspiring DMs, but you get the point.Lastly having a world that sticks to reality closely makes your job as a DM that much easier because certain assumptions can be made on both sides as to how things work so you can concentrate on painting the fantasy picture where its required.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Helspar, post: 1652824, member: 4849"] Making a realistic world to role play in I find makes the story more believable. Suspending the players disbelief is key to immersion within the game and, I find, a better roleplaying experience. I mean my world don't typically have purple trees, random gravity, or a green sky, but if they did then there has to be a reason for it. In the case of having say three moons, how do they affect the world? One could work in various socio-religious-political factors, not to mention enviornmental factors - in this case how does the tide work? Or does it ever get really dark at night? While such things might seem extraneous to gameplay for the most part if you're the DM and it does become an issue you better have something for it, otherwise the players once again find it hard to "suspend their disbelief". Just like any good fantasy novel, the world has to be realistic in its own context. (Hauls out the Tolkien card) The realm of Middle Earth is a good example - while it is high fantasy, its easy to believe that the wold could work that way - in fact Tolkien creates a world with its own creation theory - a little much work for most aspiring DMs, but you get the point. Lastly having a world that sticks to reality closely makes your job as a DM that much easier because certain assumptions can be made on both sides as to how things work so you can concentrate on painting the fantasy picture where its required. [/QUOTE]

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