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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Moff_Tarkin" data-source="post: 2896180" data-attributes="member: 14175">I read this post and I am truly sorry but I must rant about something here. It doesn’t really help the post in any way (almost a hijack) so you don’t have to read it. The following quote bothers me.“Well, no, I guess not. It just doesn't seem very "realistic" to me. It seems to me that, by allowing this use of the Heal skill, we are imposing our 20th century scientific worldview on a medieval-based fictional fantasy society. Because of our modern viewpoint, *we* (as players) know that there is evidence there to be found for those who are willing to do a detailed autopsy. I'm not sure that such an idea should/would occur to someone (like our characters) who live before the advent of modern medical science.”Sadly this is a mistake that most people make and I have seen many movies and D&D games ruined by uninformed directors and GMs respectively. There is a common belief among our “modern” society that Ancient and Medieval people were primitive screw heads who spent all their time searching for sea serpents and talking about how the world was flat. Almost no one realizes how smart and resourceful these people were. Our technology far outdoes theirs, but they were just as intelligent as we are, maybe even more so since they were able to figure out things (such as the circumference of the earth) without all our high technology.Speaking of technology. I don’t like all these movies/books were people go back in time and use technology to impress everyone and make them think they are powerful wizards. If you flew a plane over a medieval city, or even some of the enlightened ancient people like the Greeks, nobody would be dumb enough to say “Look, a giant silver bird.” They would look up and say “Wow, its some sort of flying machine. There must be a man in there piloting the thing.” Then they would probably take extensive notes and do research on the thing that may lead to the plane being invented decades if not centuries ahead of time. After all, they did have a working blueprint for the steam engine 500 years before it was even invited.</blockquote>

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