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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Li Shenron" data-source="post: 6198220" data-attributes="member: 1465">I think one problem stems from part of the gaming population wanting to have a "vision from the outside" of the fantasy world, which is basically what science does in the real world. They want to treat the fantasy world as if it was a possible alternate real world, and they want to have scientific-like knowledge of that (even if only at gross level of details). There is nothing wrong with that, but it obviously puts a huge pressure on the designers. Anyway, it's not the only way.There is another part of the gaming population that doesn't care, because they are only interesting in getting immersed in the game, the story, and the fantasy setting too, but at the same time they assume the perspective of the characters living in that fantasy world. They don't need a "vision from the outside" because the "vision from the inside" is all they feel they need. Imagine an inhabitant of the real world during the middle ages, they thought they knew that the sun orbited around the earth, therefore as far as they were concerned the sun indeed orbited around the earth.Me, I am happy enough to have played mostly with gamers of the second kind. The only times I remember we had a player bring up complaints about monsters ecology not being realistic enough, the game grinded to a halt and spoiled our fun.</blockquote>