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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 6299071" data-attributes="member: 42582">I don't take it for granted that universal gravitation is true, no. There is nothing in the experience of falling in D&D that excludes the truth of Democritus's "atoms and the void" (with unidirectional motion), nor that earth-y things are attracted to the abundance of elemental earth in the Earth.As for food, I take it for granted that people eat, but don't need to worry about how metabolisation works (eg clearly for Xorns it is nothing like for actual animals in the real world).On your account, dragon flight must be magical (given it is inconsistent with actual physical laws), which raises the question why it can still happen in an anti-magic field.Interesting post. The techniques you describe make sense as a way of making a game work, though personally I think I'm closer to your anathema category.</blockquote>