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2016-09-26, 06:48 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Silly Childhood Misconceptions on Fantasy Elements?
I suppose the "syringe" version I always conceived was kind of a hybrid. Essentially, the "suction" is done by blood grooves in the fangs that pull it into and direct it towards the back of the mouth, letting them taste it and drink "normally" without the mess of having to try to treat the neck like a straw. This would also let them sip from wine glasses normally.
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2016-09-27, 10:35 AM (ISO 8601)
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Fair.
Bacon is credited with the creation of the Scientific Method, and I thought it made more sense to reference someone who everyone would instantly recognize as "that Scientific Method guy" than to search for a history of the Method and mention someone almost no one would recognize.
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2016-09-28, 11:17 PM (ISO 8601)
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2016-09-29, 04:51 AM (ISO 8601)
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My version of the snake-like syringe teeth went quite far, to where they actually folded back like some venomous snake fangs.
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2016-09-29, 04:59 AM (ISO 8601)
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When I was pretty little, I used to think that witches were non-human magical creatures like fairies, ghosts, and vampires. Probably because they kind of got portrayed that way in some kid-friendly media and that's the general impression I got from stereotypical Halloween decorations and the like.
I even wrote a crayon-based picture story about a lonely Witch, Vampire, and a Ghost coming together as friends because each had the requisite skill/items to solve the other's dilemma - the Vampire gave the Ghost her enchanted mantle and gloves so she could touch things as a gesture of kindness. the Ghost could then find and bring the Witch's wand after it had been taken by an unruly crow to make its nest, and finally the Witch magically grew a field of giant tomatoes for the Vampire to sate her hunger, and everyone lived happily ever after in a big scarecrow of their design amid the tomato fields.
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2016-09-29, 05:01 AM (ISO 8601)
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2016-09-29, 09:42 AM (ISO 8601)
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As a kid, I did not realize that "Cleric" and "Clerk" were different terms. As such, I'd assumed that D&D had a bunch of merchants running around healing people as a profession. I'd just assumed that they were using their money to purchase healing potions or the components and making them themselves, like herbalists! I didn't exactly get the connection there.
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2016-09-29, 10:23 AM (ISO 8601)
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Actually, a race that was a dual-form fey with "(D&D) elf-like" and "tinkerbell-like" forms would be interesting. Kind-of makes me think of the three good fairies from Sleeping Beauty (how they would go from human-sized/wingless to winged mouse-size...and sometimes smaller still).
I think the two words actually do share a root. "Clerical work" is still the term for the kind of paperwork clerks perform.
But that could be an interesting setting conceit, as well. Or maybe just Wuakeen's MO. "FEEL THE HEALING POWER OF WEALTH!"
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2016-09-29, 10:50 AM (ISO 8601)
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2016-09-29, 10:57 AM (ISO 8601)
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There is, IRL an alloy called "invar" which has a very low coefficient of thermal expansion - that is to say, it doesn't expand when heated. The first I ever heard of it was in Terry Pratchett's story Thief of Time, and when I read this I assumed invar was like mithril, or dilithium - a completely made-up material. In fact, it's entirely real.
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2016-09-30, 08:20 PM (ISO 8601)
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Not a misconception of the fiction, but of the rules. The first time I read an RPG rule book and it was describing passage of time for various events, healing from bullet wounds, travel etc. And it gave them in days and months just like they should be. Young me thought this literally meant that you couldn't play you character for that much IRL time as well. So if your character got shot, you couldn't play the game again for another few weeks or months while they recovered. Made me wonder why the heck anyone would actually want to play these games. Ooops.
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2016-09-30, 08:24 PM (ISO 8601)
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2016-09-30, 11:43 PM (ISO 8601)
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Ice has a positive coefficient of thermal expansion over every bit of temperature range I've seen data on. Liquid water goes negative between 0 and 4 C at 1 bar, and ice is less dense than water over a fairly high temperature-pressure range (which is anomolous), but ice itself has a positive coefficient of thermal expansion. There are things that go negative though: zirconium tungstate at STP and surrounding temperature-pressures is.
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2016-10-01, 01:14 AM (ISO 8601)
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2016-10-01, 12:55 PM (ISO 8601)
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I'm pretty sure there's a Witch class somewhere in the books, too. Let it never be said that D&D shies away from doing multiple different passes over the same concept!
So, D&D deity Ayn Rand is basically the opposite of D&D deity St. Cuthbert?
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2016-10-01, 03:12 PM (ISO 8601)
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I never thought that vampires had hollow teeth, though when I was older, I did logically reason out that it would be somehow more efficient at siphoning it from the victim's body with less blood loss if they did.
This makes your world generally take the shape of a torus.
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This was similar to my early view of witches as well. Evil witches also only happened because they never got married and couldn't have kids. Therefore, any unmarried woman over the age of 30 had the potential to secretly be an evil witch looking to snatch away children, particularly if they also owned cats.
I, on the other hand, believed that dwarves had beards because they worked on forges and that their beards acted like aprons that protected them from the heat and sparks when working with hot metal.
This led to me wondering what dwarf beards were made of, because I knew human hair burned. I soon learned about asbestos, which is hair-like and nonflammable. My young mind thus concluded that dwarf hair must therefore be made of asbestos. Therefore, companies that used asbestos to make things were plundering dwarf tombs to steal the beards from dwarf corpses to make flame retardant materials.
By extension, I was also convinced that associating with dwarves caused lung cancer.
Nonsense. You're assuming that they're absorbing wavelengths that we can normally see. If, however, they are perfectly transparent to normally visible light, it would pass through them unhindered, leaving them completely invisible.
Alternatively, they could be made of a material that bends normally visible light around them, allowing you to see what is behind them, much like gravity can bend light around massive objects. However, some wavelengths just wouldn't be bend enough, and such creatures are capable of perceiving those.
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2016-10-01, 03:56 PM (ISO 8601)
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I think you're thinking of something else.
I think he means something closer to a cylinder in a highly truncated projective plane with the points at infinity moved to finite points
At any rate it wouldn't be that kind of torus anyway, it would be a clifford torus"If you want to understand biology don't think about vibrant throbbing gels and oozes, think about information technology" -Richard Dawkins
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Wait, you're telling me vampires don't have syringe teeth? That's news to me.
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Nonsense. You're assuming that they're absorbing wavelengths that we can normally see. If, however, they are perfectly transparent to normally visible light, it would pass through them unhindered, leaving them completely invisible.
Alternatively, they could be made of a material that bends normally visible light around them, allowing you to see what is behind them, much like gravity can bend light around massive objects. However, some wavelengths just wouldn't be bend enough, and such creatures are capable of perceiving those.
The only story that I can think of which properly addresses this is the original Invisible Man, which has the titular character's retinas still be visible.
I got a mental image of King Midas putting on cloth-of-gold gloves which promptly turned to solid, non-cloth gold.
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Not necessarily. They simply see in different wavelengths, as with the example earlier in the thread of glass being almost entirely transparent in visible light but opaque in infrared. They would be blind to "normal" light that we see, but they could still see perfectly fine otherwise.
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And then to make it all even more confusing, the Fiend Folio gave us the "Fey'ri", who are a subgroup of elves.
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2016-10-04, 02:18 AM (ISO 8601)
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Traditionally they are. Like in the ballad of Tam Lin, wherein Tam Lin is described as both as a fairy and an elf.
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In addition to elves being fairies (the shoe maker and the elves has brownies in it). Elrond was almost a gnome.
By which I mean originally Tolkien called the Noldor (i.e. those elves who scare Ringwraiths and who fought Morgoth) gnomes.Peanut Half-Dragon Necromancer by Kurien.
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No, it does not. In a torus, crossing over the "north pole" (to the extent that term means anything in a torus) would take you to the "south pole." In my setting, crossing over the north pole takes you to a point in the northern hemisphere exactly 180 degrees longitudinally offset from the longitude you originated from, exactly the same way it would in a spherical world. Crossing over the south pole takes you to a point in the southern hemisphere exactly 180 degrees longitudinally offset.
Walking east-west around the world next to the pole, however, takes exactly the same amount of time as walking east-west around the world would at the equator, exactly the same way it would in a cylindrical world.
Effectively, the world is simultaneously a sphere and a cylinder. As you approach the pole, a length contraction occurs in the east-west dimension, analogous to the Lorentz contraction in the real world, to the point where at the poles themselves, you're functionally two-dimensional. Seen from space, outside the influence of the planet's magosphere, the planet is an ordinary sphere, but as any measuring stick you would carry to the pole would undergo the same contraction, it "looks" as though the distance is the same.
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That actually sounds pretty cool.
An actual torus world example would be most JRPG worlds, if you follow the logic of how you move on the world map. Going off the east side brings you on the west side (and vice versa), going off the north side brings you on the south side (and vice versa).