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<blockquote data-quote="IconoclastX" data-source="post: 3992361" data-attributes="member: 56728">&quot;Easily explainable phenomenon&quot; with the precondition of internal consistency, yes.&nbsp; Obviously none of this is real, but this entire hobby is about the suspension of disbelief.&nbsp; If one of the designers at the table asked &quot;So what should goblins look like?&quot; and another constantly yelled &quot;Goblins aren't real!&nbsp; This is dumb!&quot; how long do you think he'd last?&nbsp; The point is that there is a basic level of suspension of disbelief going in, and from that everything else should make sense.&nbsp; This is the world-design stage.&nbsp; People involved in that are &quot;gods&quot; in that they SHOULD know exactly why and how everything works.&nbsp; They shouldn't be the ones out in the cold crying to the heavens &quot;Why?!?!&quot;.&nbsp; Sure the average person on Faerun will have no clue what goes on with the deities in the setting, but when you're desiging at this level it should be with story-reasoned purpose, not having something like the Spellplague exist, and now we have to figure how how to ram that into the Realms.Oh, and the rabid FR fans are the ones who have kept the setting alive and popular for 20 years.&nbsp; We're being traded in for fly-by-nighters who have nothing invested and will likely move on to the next shiny thing after a couple of months.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="IconoclastX, post: 3992361, member: 56728"] "Easily explainable phenomenon" with the precondition of internal consistency, yes. Obviously none of this is real, but this entire hobby is about the suspension of disbelief. If one of the designers at the table asked "So what should goblins look like?" and another constantly yelled "Goblins aren't real! This is dumb!" how long do you think he'd last? The point is that there is a basic level of suspension of disbelief going in, and from that everything else should make sense. This is the world-design stage. People involved in that are "gods" in that they SHOULD know exactly why and how everything works. They shouldn't be the ones out in the cold crying to the heavens "Why?!?!". Sure the average person on Faerun will have no clue what goes on with the deities in the setting, but when you're desiging at this level it should be with story-reasoned purpose, not having something like the Spellplague exist, and now we have to figure how how to ram that into the Realms. Oh, and the rabid FR fans are the ones who have kept the setting alive and popular for 20 years. We're being traded in for fly-by-nighters who have nothing invested and will likely move on to the next shiny thing after a couple of months. [/QUOTE]

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