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Sometimes... Im a bit odd in that I actually really like alignment and my favorite fantasy RPGs to this day are 3E and PF1. I like that...

I like that it's part of the way Monte Cook focuses the action on Ptolus (and the rest of the continent, to a lesser extent). If you run...

For a game like D&D no, as lore to rob or for your specific campaign possibly. Cool lore can be very cool, depends on execution.

So, it is a big-old, "that depends". With a note that there's a difference between what my character knows, and what the player knows...

I’ve never seen that happen. That’s wild.

As a player, I'd be interested in the light version, primarily how it might affect my character or the expedition that we're on. As a...

I have been blissfully running a Ptolus campaign since 2006. Its world, Praemal, has no access out to the other planes, and any planar...

Cool. So far, at least. Does it affect the design? If not, it's wasted, IMO. If I'm playing a cleric, or if the cosmology includes...

As reading material, it can be interesting, as gaming framework, I don't know that I can remember a solid concept let alone one which...

I clicked the middle option but really I feel like you can separate games into two groups: 1) Those heavily informed by their...

Edit: assuming a D&D type game... As a player: Having some very basic information, if relevant to the character's origin (ie does this...

I don't think it is particularly interesting or important, unless it creates actually gameable opportunities.

I do homebrew settings, and creating cosmologies is an essential part of that. Not so much for my players (or my readers, in the case of...

I think that my primary interest in cosmology tends to be a little more anthropological. I am curious to see how it shapes and informs...

Learning the cosmology for a given setting is an interesting thing to read about. :) My favorite D&D cosmology would have to be...