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Now you do too (media.piefed.world)

submitted 2 days ago by Stamets@piefed.world to c/rpgmemes@ttrpg.network

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[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago (4 children)

The more you think about them, the more they just don’t work.

Wait till you get into the math of .

A Pegasus, if it were to fly in the same way as a bird, would require extremely large wings relative to its body size, likely much larger than commonly depicted. Calculations suggest a wingspan of at least 30 meters (about 100 feet) for a horse-sized creature. This is due to the constraints of the square-cube law and the need for sufficient lift to support the horse's weight.

A study of dragons from movies and video games suggests they would need to fly much faster or have wings 45 times larger to stay aloft.

Don't even get me started on Sphinxes and Manticores.

[–] chatokun@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Several fantasies just give em required secondary powers. Griffins use wind magic. Dragons use some form of antigravity or flight magic.

Iirc in Stormlight, the ... gigafauna?(Googles and finds it has been cooked for how I want to use it...huh) have gems in them that allows em to sorta reduce gravity in order for them to be able to survive at such a size (the planet also has lower gravity than earth,at 0.7G)

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 2 points 6 hours ago

Sure sure sure. But if we're running back to the "shut up, it's magic" premise, centaurs (and mermaids and owlbears) don't seem so weird, either

[–] kiagam@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That is why I like unicorns. when they fly, nobody starts calculating. Everybody just accepts the magic

[–] Tattorack@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

I'm a sci-fi guy. I can accept that whatever force is causing the unicorn to fly is one that I haven't measured or studied yet.

Any sufficiently understood magic is indistinguishable from science.

[–] mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago

For the pegasus, are they factoring in possibilities like having hollow bones like birds do to reduce weight? Granted, that would severely hamper their abilities to be a horse, but maybe they're not supposed to be beasts of burden?

[–] Tattorack@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

That's why I like my winged mythical creatures with really big wings.

Sphinxes are bad, but still not as bad as centaurs, as Sphinxes don't have an entire additional body attached to their body.