Reply to thread

Message

<blockquote data-quote="Rechan" data-source="post: 4739647" data-attributes="member: 54846">Or you could assume that I don't know Lava doesn't kill you unless you touch it, because quite simply some do not. DMs/game designers aren't all-knowing, in terms of the realistic applications of things. Forget &quot;Cartoon I saw at age 14&quot;; one of the damn BOND movies has a villain with a base in a volcano. I didn't know &quot;Lava kills you if you're in the room with it&quot; until I read it on TvTropes.com, and I took Geology in college!If you're standing on a flying city about three miles above the ground, you might assume &quot;hey, there's magic afoot keeping me from getting hypothermia up here&quot; whereas the next guy doesn't realize it's really windy/cold/hard to breathe that high up, and therefore doesn't take that into consideration. &nbsp; Once I was running a game where the PCs were in the desert, and looking through an abandoned town. They come to a door, and open it, and there are stairs leading down. Suddenly one of the players announces, &quot;Something bad must be going down here; people in the desert don't dig underground, the earth is too hard! Something sinister is afoot.&quot;I just looked at him and said, &quot;Huh? Basements/cellars aren't universal?&quot; The player assumed something was intentionally done, in the game, when really it was that way because of ignorance.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Rechan, post: 4739647, member: 54846"] Or you could assume that I don't know Lava doesn't kill you unless you touch it, because quite simply [I]some do not[/I]. DMs/game designers aren't all-knowing, in terms of the realistic applications of things. Forget "Cartoon I saw at age 14"; one of the damn BOND movies has a villain with a base in a volcano. I didn't know "Lava kills you if you're in the room with it" until I read it on TvTropes.com, and I took Geology in college! If you're standing on a flying city about three miles above the ground, [I]you[/I] might assume "hey, there's magic afoot keeping me from getting hypothermia up here" whereas the next guy [I]doesn't realize it's really windy/cold/hard to breathe that high up[/I], and therefore doesn't take that into consideration. Once I was running a game where the PCs were in the desert, and looking through an abandoned town. They come to a door, and open it, and there are stairs leading down. Suddenly one of the players announces, "Something bad must be going down here; people in the desert don't dig underground, the earth is too hard! Something sinister is afoot." I just looked at him and said, "Huh? Basements/cellars aren't universal?" The player assumed something was intentionally done, in the game, when really it was that way because of ignorance. [/QUOTE]

Verification