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Message: <blockquote data-quote="kenmarable" data-source="post: 4830292" data-attributes="member: 40359">Huh, this got me thinking. What if science just doesn't work? If electricity is created by god of lightning, why would he deign to have his power trapped inside a lightbulb? If there is no physics, just the world as the gods created it, there's no more reason to believe you can make a microchip in future Faerun than you can make a wand of magic missiles here on Earth. Sure the gods, or uber-gods or whoever created a world where objects fall if dropped, and fire burns, but that was just their will at the time and no individual god can change any of that. They can only play in their own limited domain. So why would they create a world where magic can eventually be replaced with steam locomotives, gasoline engines, and iPhones? Maybe technology beyond decent irrigation and repeating crossbows simply cannot exist because the gods didn't create the world to include electric power? Heck, even biology might be out the window if evolution doesn't exist and all species were created by the gods just as they are.So a D&D world isn't "medieval Earth + magic", it's an entirely different reality where there is no physics, only magic and the will of the gods, which sometimes, but doesn't always fit clean mathematical formulas.(Hmm... now I gotta try and think of another thing I don't understand...)</blockquote>