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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Crimson Longinus" data-source="post: 9542376" data-attributes="member: 7025508">I think these are the sort of things most people gloss over in D&D, thought they're interesting to me. I certainly have thought about metaphysics of Artra, even though it obviously is not super detailed. But I have at least a rough framework I can extrapolate from.And whilst, normal laws of physics + rare magical exceptions framework might work if the exceptions truly were rare, I don't think it is a good fit for a blatantly magical world where those exceptions are everywhere. This is not to say that nothing needs to work according to our real world physics, but at least I would expect "magic" to be intertined into the working of the world on rather fundamental level.Settings where I feel things like these thing actually tend to come up in play, are urban fantasy, where supernatural elements are placed in th real world. That I find, tends to often sort of invite trying to explain the supernatural scientifically, and usually sort of has to assume that most of our real world science actually works like we thingk it does. So then we have discussions about what aspect of sunlight actuallly hurts vampires and can we replicate it with an UV lamp etc.</blockquote>