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<blockquote data-quote="Shadowdweller00" data-source="post: 7072724" data-attributes="member: 6778479">A player in a modern society with expansive, detailed, in-depth education and easy access to resources like mass-produced books and cheap paper?&nbsp; Probably not so much.&nbsp; A character in a pseudo-medieval fantasy society where the overwhelming majority of the population are too scared to wander anywhere near danger, where there are no mass produced goods, where education is likely much more limited and expensive relative to average incomes, where books are likely to be literally written on the backs of several dead sheep, where most encounters with monsters result in hideous death, and where there is likely no established authority on such creatures (such as a monster manual) to differentiate between fact and wild rumor...that case is another story entirely.[QUOTE=&quot;Robert Howard - Tower of the Elephant (Conan)]He had never seen an elephant, but he vaguely understood&nbsp; that it was a monstrous animal, with a tail in front as well as behind. This&nbsp; a wandering Shemite had told him, swearing that he had seen such beasts by&nbsp; the thousands in the country of the Hyrkanians; but all men knew what liars&nbsp; were the men of Shem. At any rate, there were no elephants in Zamora.</blockquote>[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE="Shadowdweller00, post: 7072724, member: 6778479"] A player in a modern society with expansive, detailed, in-depth education and easy access to resources like mass-produced books and cheap paper? Probably not so much. A character in a pseudo-medieval fantasy society where the overwhelming majority of the population are too scared to wander anywhere near danger, where there are no mass produced goods, where education is likely much more limited and expensive relative to average incomes, where books are likely to be literally written on the backs of several dead sheep, where most encounters with monsters result in hideous death, and where there is likely no established authority on such creatures (such as a monster manual) to differentiate between fact and wild rumor...that case is another story entirely. [QUOTE="Robert Howard - Tower of the Elephant (Conan)]He had never seen an elephant, but he vaguely understood that it was a monstrous animal, with a tail in front as well as behind. This a wandering Shemite had told him, swearing that he had seen such beasts by the thousands in the country of the Hyrkanians; but all men knew what liars were the men of Shem. At any rate, there were no elephants in Zamora.[/QUOTE] [/QUOTE]

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