would
lead me to investigate further, and eventually find that a jar put the
candle out
but a chimney kept it going and protected it from wind. This is a simple =
empirical observation that I would expect my players' characters to know.= =
> They may not explain it in terms of oxygen deprivation but they know th=
is
is
how the world works. =
This only seems a 'simple empirical observation' to people who have had t=
he
benefit of a 20th century education. It wasn't made by philosophers in o=
ur
world
until the 17th century.
It's not just in some GM's Gloranthas that conducting experiments could g=
et
you lynched. Priestley, the discoverer of oxygen (though he didn't know
what
he'd found and called it dephlogisticated air) had his house, including h=
is
laboratory, burned down by a mob.
Andrew
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