@Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: @nprofile1q... you can explain the rules through world building, dialogue or examples, without resorting to page long details.

It depends a little bit on how much your protagonist can know from it's POV and how much you can assume with the reader.

I think you don't need to explain someone that when you hit the light switch, the light will turn on, but if you assume everyone knows how an electric curcuit works, you might lose some people.

They learned it way back in school but if they never used that knowledge, they will not understands what happening there. Of yourse they will be able to tell you about voltages and currents, but from my own experience for a lot more people than i am cormfortable to accept "Electrics" is just another magic thing. "TV", "phone" and "internet" are just more complex layers on top of it.

My point here is that building too much on readers knowledge can backfire really hard.

@nprofile1q... Tbf: Some would need to have a big lore and ruleset, just like physics, to be consistent what it can do and what not.
Doing the old "just accept ist" thing might fel like the easy way out, but in many cases it keeps the pacing up und make the story more fluent.
I think the best middle ground is to include some of the rules in the lore building sections without explaingin everything in great detail. keep a hint of misteray to it, but at least make it understanable what works there.

It's like the difference between "Hot stuff can hurt you" to "The added energy makes the atoms wiggle really fast and if that wiggle gets physical contact to your skin it can change the material significantly"

I don't know if there is a "right" way to do it. Probably not, so in some cirumstances it is an okay easy way out.

@:blobcatverified2: Give me 25 million Euros would be a start.