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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MGibster" data-source="post: 7815682" data-attributes="member: 4534">When I debate with some of my friends about the existence of Big Foot I bring up things like ecological niches and energy expenditure.  Just how much would a 400 pound 7 foot tall simian need to eat in order to survive?  How many of them need to exist in order to maintain a stable population?  How come we haven't found any of their bodies, scat, nests, evidence of predation, or some other physical evidence?  But why should you worry about such things when you're in Faerûn?  In what manner does this touch your game?  How many fantasy games are improved by applying a modern understanding of evolutionary theory to a cockatrice or a dragon?  From my limited understanding of physics, a dragon shouldn't be able to fly but that doesn't bother me in places like Krynn where they soar through the air.  I just need enough verisimilitude to get me through the day.  I don't need to see a huge dragon at the bottom of a dungeon in a 50x50 room with no exits for it to squeeze in and out of without a damned good explanation.  That said, I did rather enjoy those "Ecology of..." articles from Dragon back in the day because the information gave me ideas for how to use the creatures in the game.But some people love world building and coming up with something, well, I don't like to use the word realistic but I'm not sure what else to use in it's stead.  And that's a totally legitimate way to look at things.</blockquote>

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