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Message: <blockquote data-quote="I'm A Banana" data-source="post: 171751" data-attributes="member: 2067">Sweet! I caused a registration. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Yeah, I think it's truly a great mine for ideas. I'm a firm believer that mechanics should mostly follow from the concepts. E.G.: My character is like this. Now I need a Feat/PrC that fits that.3e just makes it MUCH easier to do. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />I'm one for including both semi-real-woprld and not-real-world philosophies, and a strange blending of the two. I'd steer mostly away from cosmology (that's the domain of the Manual of the Planes), but perhaps trace the area when I describe philosophies that would hinge on cosmology.As a for-instance, take a look at Atheism: the belief that there are no true divine magical forces.Now adapt it to a D&D-like setting, where gods walk the planes and priests work miracles on a daily basis -- turn the "there are no gods" into "these guys are just powerful posers trying to leech your belief!" So anyone can become a "god," and they're not really special or siginificant, and there's no reason why you should worship them. The sad priests are just puppets for the divine puppetmaster.Introduces all sorts of concepts -- feats that negate divine magic, PrC's that focus on killing deities, etc. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />And there could definately be things beyond simple character development. Imagine the cleric PC coming to a town like this, or one NPC villain dedicating himself to the killing of the cleric PC, or something along those lines. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />I'm excited about it. Ideas are good. ^_^</blockquote>

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