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<blockquote data-quote="ruleslawyer" data-source="post: 4018598" data-attributes="member: 1757">Not really. I think he was exaggerating the strength of that assumption. &quot;The man on the street&quot; probably doesn't think a lot about how magic rings work to begin with; if you told him that all those other rings that were mentioned in the beginning of the movies (and he might not even remember that scene) only worked for really powerful people, he would probably have no problem with that. I'd say that the assumption that, oh, all dragons breathe fire (hm, that one doesn't work in D&amp;D either, eh?) is a stronger and more universal one among people unfamiliar with D&amp;D-specific tropes.The point is that many, many D&amp;D-specific tropes &quot;contradict&quot; general fantasy/mythic representations of same. (The subsidiary point is that this whole ring thing is too fiddly to be something the man on the street would &quot;take for granted,&quot; but that's neither here nor there.) What's a gorgon? Why are there multiples of everything from the Pegasus to the Hydra to the Chimera? Why don't all hydras regenerate? Why are elves shorter than humans? The list goes on and on.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="ruleslawyer, post: 4018598, member: 1757"] Not really. I think he was exaggerating the strength of that assumption. "The man on the street" probably doesn't think a lot about how magic rings work to begin with; if you told him that all those other rings that were mentioned in the beginning of the movies (and he might not even remember that scene) only worked for really powerful people, he would probably have no problem with that. I'd say that the assumption that, oh, all dragons breathe fire (hm, that one doesn't work in D&D either, eh?) is a stronger and more universal one among people unfamiliar with D&D-specific tropes. The point is that many, many D&D-specific tropes "contradict" general fantasy/mythic representations of same. (The subsidiary point is that this whole ring thing is too fiddly to be something the man on the street would "take for granted," but that's neither here nor there.) What's a gorgon? Why are there multiples of everything from the Pegasus to the Hydra to the Chimera? Why don't all hydras regenerate? Why are elves shorter than humans? The list goes on and on. [/QUOTE]

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