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<blockquote data-quote="Jay Verkuilen" data-source="post: 7785061" data-attributes="member: 6873517">I think that's true to some degree, but a lot depends on the nature of the fantastical. For example, one could posit that it's essentially &quot;forces of chaos&quot; that hold those up, and that when brought into the &quot;domain of law/civilization&quot; much of that stops working. The fire beetle abdomen ceases to glow after it's been dead for a week or to and nobody's been able to successfully breed them. So the wilderness might be much grander and more fantastical than in Baron Yucktefratz's manor right in the middle of the Kingdom ruled by Good King Wenceslaus. This is not at all inconsistent with a lot of the kinds of tales from the Medieval era, where everyone knew their own home was mundane but deep in the woods, across the sea, in some foreign land, etc., things were much, much weirder and more mystical. Also, I think that folks should probably recognize that not everybody is the kind of obsessive world building freak that a lot of us on this thread are. Many players simply don't care. IMO one of the real verisimilitude breakers is the presence of cantrips like Light, Mending, Create Bonfire, or Firebolt. If you want to have a much more Medieval-feeling world, those really have to go. (They can be replaced in many cases by things like a cantrip that lets a caster use a crossbow or staff more effectively without the special effect.)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Jay Verkuilen, post: 7785061, member: 6873517"] I think that's true to some degree, but a lot depends on the nature of the fantastical. For example, one could posit that it's essentially "forces of chaos" that hold those up, and that when brought into the "domain of law/civilization" much of that stops working. The fire beetle abdomen ceases to glow after it's been dead for a week or to and nobody's been able to successfully breed them. So the wilderness might be much grander and more fantastical than in Baron Yucktefratz's manor right in the middle of the Kingdom ruled by Good King Wenceslaus. This is not at all inconsistent with a lot of the kinds of tales from the Medieval era, where everyone knew their own home was mundane but deep in the woods, across the sea, in some foreign land, etc., things were much, much weirder and more mystical. Also, I think that folks should probably recognize that not everybody is the kind of obsessive world building freak that a lot of us on this thread are. Many players simply don't care. IMO one of the real verisimilitude breakers is the presence of cantrips like Light, Mending, Create Bonfire, or Firebolt. If you want to have a much more Medieval-feeling world, those really have to go. (They can be replaced in many cases by things like a cantrip that lets a caster use a crossbow or staff more effectively without the special effect.) [/QUOTE]

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