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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tony Vargas" data-source="post: 7823994" data-attributes="member: 996">OK, I did not use 'practical sense' the way I meant to, my bad.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />  Like, there's science (math/physics) involved in building a bridge, so a practical application, but people built bridges without the math/science for a long time, using experience & rules of thumb, instead.    The interesting point about a fantasy world based on medieval belief, would be that there aren't the same impediments to some fantastical elements - the one that always bugged me was scale.  IRL, humanoid giants, flying birds with feathers as big around as a ship's mast, and fire-breathing dragons and the like don't just not exist, they're physically impossible.  A rational person in the middle ages might not believe in such things, but he can't point to mathematical proof & scientific theory borne out by experimentation, to show they're impossible.  So, if a giant steps over his town's wall, his reactions will not include "/that's physically impossible/."  The same goes for feats and magic.  A strong man can lift a big rock, a stronger man a bigger one, so Herakles lifting a mountain, just the extension of that.  Tea brewed from an aromatic herb makes you feel better when you sick, and you recover, so a 'magic herb' curing plague or making people young again, might be outside your experience, but you've no solid proof it's impossible.</blockquote>

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