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<blockquote data-quote="Umbra" data-source="post: 1708347" data-attributes="member: 17086">Consider how much is known about magic in the real world, albeit with magic not being real.&nbsp; How many people don't know you pull a rabbit out of a magician's hat?&nbsp; That garlic is effacious against vampires?&nbsp; That a silver bullet is needed against werewolves. Even now, a few nooks and crannies of the world have cultures that know more about magic than engineering.&nbsp; Go back several hundred years and many cultures are steeped in 'magic'.&nbsp; From some points of view, many religions are 'magical'.And this is in a world where magic is (generally believed) not to be manifestly evident.In a DnD world where the magic does manifest, the amount of knowledge about magic would be much greater although it would be laced with a lot of errors and the understanding would not be very deep.On Earth, think how many people know of Excalibur - a magic sword that (probably <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> ) didn't exist.&nbsp; Of course, in a DnD world where communication, particularly between cultures and over great distances, is poor, it would only be the local magic that is well known, if not understood.&nbsp; Every dwarf commoner would know the King wields the mighty Mithril Axe of Gromm, the royal weapon and that it is particularly potent against giants.&nbsp; Outside the dwarven kingdom, some commoners may have heard of the mighty weapon wielded by the dwarf king, but not the type of weapon or its name.Then there is the magic of the Gods.&nbsp; Thor has his hammer as every Scandanavian knew and much of the world does now.&nbsp; In the DnD world commoners would also know the details of their Gods and their servants.&nbsp; They probably also know some details about other gods from bordering regions.&nbsp; They know the Evil Goddess Grantel whithers crops where ever she walks and her demons wield maces that can wither your arm.As I said in an earlier post, I don't believe commoners know as much as PC's do about magic, but they certainly know more (if incorrectly) than is suggested.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Umbra, post: 1708347, member: 17086"] Consider how much is known about magic in the real world, albeit with magic not being real. How many people don't know you pull a rabbit out of a magician's hat? That garlic is effacious against vampires? That a silver bullet is needed against werewolves. Even now, a few nooks and crannies of the world have cultures that know more about magic than engineering. Go back several hundred years and many cultures are steeped in 'magic'. From some points of view, many religions are 'magical'. And this is in a world where magic is (generally believed) not to be manifestly evident. In a DnD world where the magic does manifest, the amount of knowledge about magic would be much greater although it would be laced with a lot of errors and the understanding would not be very deep. On Earth, think how many people know of Excalibur - a magic sword that (probably ;) ) didn't exist. Of course, in a DnD world where communication, particularly between cultures and over great distances, is poor, it would only be the local magic that is well known, if not understood. Every dwarf commoner would know the King wields the mighty Mithril Axe of Gromm, the royal weapon and that it is particularly potent against giants. Outside the dwarven kingdom, some commoners may have heard of the mighty weapon wielded by the dwarf king, but not the type of weapon or its name. Then there is the magic of the Gods. Thor has his hammer as every Scandanavian knew and much of the world does now. In the DnD world commoners would also know the details of their Gods and their servants. They probably also know some details about other gods from bordering regions. They know the Evil Goddess Grantel whithers crops where ever she walks and her demons wield maces that can wither your arm. As I said in an earlier post, I don't believe commoners know as much as PC's do about magic, but they certainly know more (if incorrectly) than is suggested. [/QUOTE]

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