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<blockquote data-quote="gizmo33" data-source="post: 2913805" data-attributes="member: 30001">QFT !In fact, I think this is a BIG part of the old school module that people don't get.&nbsp; People look at an old school module and say &quot;that doesn't make any sense&quot;, and think that's the module's problem.&nbsp; Given the uncountably infinite possibilities that can produce the results they see, and the fact that it's a fantasy world, I don't really see what the problem is.The &quot;Ecology of...&quot; type articles IMO do a disservice to fantasy, in some ways, in that it makes it seem like everything that happens in a fantasy universe has to be based on scientific principles.People think they need to have an explanation for what a dragon must be eating in order to maintain itself in an environment.&nbsp; A dragon is an imaginary creature, there's no reason that it has to sustain itself following the same rules as a cow.&nbsp; If you can conceive of a fantasy universal law that says &quot;the gods gain power from their worshippers belief in them&quot; then you can extrapolate that to say &quot;dragons exist as a manifestation of humanities collective fear of them, and are sustained by that fear&quot;.&nbsp; (To think that if an adventurer is not afraid of a dragon that somehow that dragon will be weakened misunderstands what I mean by &quot;collective&quot;).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="gizmo33, post: 2913805, member: 30001"] QFT ! In fact, I think this is a BIG part of the old school module that people don't get. People look at an old school module and say "that doesn't make any sense", and think that's the module's problem. Given the uncountably infinite possibilities that can produce the results they see, and the fact that it's a fantasy world, I don't really see what the problem is. The "Ecology of..." type articles IMO do a disservice to fantasy, in some ways, in that it makes it seem like everything that happens in a fantasy universe has to be based on scientific principles. People think they need to have an explanation for what a dragon must be eating in order to maintain itself in an environment. A dragon is an imaginary creature, there's no reason that it has to sustain itself following the same rules as a cow. If you can conceive of a fantasy universal law that says "the gods gain power from their worshippers belief in them" then you can extrapolate that to say "dragons exist as a manifestation of humanities collective fear of them, and are sustained by that fear". (To think that if an adventurer is not afraid of a dragon that somehow that dragon will be weakened misunderstands what I mean by "collective"). [/QUOTE]

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