D&D 5E Thoughts on 5E Portal Fantasy

[jmartkdr2]

I think people vastly underestimate the amount of knowledge and supporting technology you need to make use of modern knowledge in primitive conditions. It's not Gilligan's Island.

My concern would be fighting back too hard on this - if you don't let the players use modern knowledge, why have them come form a modern world at all? What does it add to the game?

 

[Reynard]

My concern would be fighting back too hard on this - if you don't let the players use modern knowledge, why have them come form a modern world at all? What does it add to the game?

Context. It's not about "I know how to make a catapult" it is about "I am a person from the mundane real world suddenly faced with the wondrous and terrible, and maybe I can finally be that here or villain I always felt I was inside" and the like. The Portal fantasy part is about looking at the fantasy world from a different perspective.