Quote Originally Posted by halfeye View Post
The real universe is too big. It's inhuman. I don't think anyone really gets the scale of the thing. Just the Milky Way is too big, and there are a billion of it.
That's a positive, both in terms of fiction and otherwise. Even just talking about fiction, that just means there is always narrative room.

Knowing the limits of everything makes everything instantly boring. The unanswered questions, the unknowns, the "what's out there," that is often the most compelling thing or hook. (Paizo's decision with Golarion to explcitly have unanswered questions is one of the thing that makes in unquestionably the best non-homebrew setting (for any RPG, not just D&D) in my opinion. (Another major part is actually having a solar system and not... *shudder* Spelljammer's reductive nonsense.)) Or is that drive, that curiosity, not a thing that motivates people anymore? And if it is, why try and set limits to it?

(If is genuinely isn't, then I really, really have nothing left in common with humanity.)