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    Planescape Looking for sources on how alignments phsyically function as substances

    I'm afraid D&D is specifically what I'm looking for. Thank you though!
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    Planescape Looking for sources on how alignments phsyically function as substances

    Celebrim, thank you for your response! I absolutely agree that there is no existing common metaphysics to D&D/Planescape. It's a work by many authors, many of whom likely gave no thought to metaphysics, and those few that did will undoubtedly contradict one another. My aim isn't to discover some...
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    Planescape Looking for sources on how alignments phsyically function as substances

    Ok so. This is a bit difficult to put into words, but what I'm trying to find is published sources of information on how the D&D moral alignments physically interact with the world. Not in terms of ethics- I'm not looking to start a debate on whether a particular action qualifies as good or...
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    Shemeska's Planescape Storyhour - (Updated 27July2025)

    Having binged this entire story hour over the course of the last two weeks, all I can say is: wow. You have a brilliantly torturous mind, Shemmy. Hats off to you for such a fantastically plotted and fantastically written story!
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    D&D General Truths and Principles: Towards a United Metaphysics of Magic

    The below is The Magic Hermaphrodite's excellent set of notes, summations, and theories expanding upon the original work. Please give it a read! Preface: What follows is, essentially, a series of observations and interpretations of the original work, particularly one that attempts to divine an...
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    D&D General Truths and Principles: Towards a United Metaphysics of Magic

    Brief out-of-character note: This is my attempt to reverse-engineer D&D's system of spell schools into a consistent metaphysics that can be used to correct some of WotC's weirder choices when assigning spells to schools. It's intended to work within the "default" shared cosmology as defined in...
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