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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 5031737" data-attributes="member: 4937">While those are campaign specific details, my usage of campaign specific details was merely conveinent for me to make my point - not the point itself.The point of the above was that the D&D universe is by default a place that is part of an infinite multiverse, where there are 4 basic elements, an ethereal plane, a world in a crystal sphere surrounded by aether, a world that is seldom more than a few 10's of thousands of years old and typically has a fully recorded written history, a universe the law of conservation of energy may be broken by acts of will alone, a universe where the physical laws of the universe are quite possibly the whims of spirits, and heros may survive falls of great distance better than steel.  That is the rule, and anything else is an exception.There is no gaurantee that genetics exist because there is no gaurantee that molecules of deoxyribonucleic acid can be formed of atoms of earth, water, fire and air.  There is no gaurantee that nitrogen, oxygen, carbon, or hydrogen exist, and certainly not in the form we know them.  There is no gaurantee that blackpowder is explosive, because there is no gaurantee its components even exist.  There is no 'potasium elemental plane' by default, no evidence of or need for evolution, no general or special relativity, no quantum mechanics, no semi-conductors, etc.  There is no particular reason not to call dolphins 'fish', even if they happen to be fish that have live young and give milk, because there is no familial relationship required between dolphins and mammals nor necessarily a lack of one simply because they have different cladistics than other fish.In short, by default, the entire body of knowledge of this world could be and in most cases certainly is wrong when applied to the D&D world.   We are ignorant of all deep lore, all deep science, and all deep learning regarding the D&D universe.  We know little more about its science than 4 years olds know about the science of this world.</blockquote>

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