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<blockquote data-quote="Pyske" data-source="post: 1299823" data-attributes="member: 3567">The outer planes allow the gods to spread their power.&nbsp; When the gods act on the outer planes, they act on a metaphysical level, and thus affect everything at once.&nbsp; When they go to the prime, to act directly, they can only affect instances, rather than concepts:&nbsp; the prime is the plane of instances.&nbsp; In general, it is a more efficient use of a god's time to fix things on a metaphysical level.&nbsp; Only when an instance threatens to affect the entire system is the instance worth bothering with.&nbsp; Gods are the ultimate object-oriented programmers.&nbsp; They almost always manage to fix things in the base classes. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />In addition, the time spent dealing with the instance is time the other gods spent working at a more efficient level.&nbsp; The gods are involved in an elaborate game of &quot;chicken&quot; to try to get someone else (the other divinities) to fix the problem, or at least put in their share of the effort.&nbsp; Naturally, the good gods are willing to do their share, but they don't want to leave the evil gods unopposed while doing so.&nbsp; So they play a game of brinksmanship to convince the evil gods to help out.The reason Prime gods interact on the Prime is that they are representations of specific things (i.e. this world, not the concept of &quot;world&quot; in general).&nbsp; Demons and such interact with the specific because they don't have the insight to interact with the universe on a more fundamental level.&nbsp; However, as agents of the gods (or in thwarting agents of the gods), they can affect the transcendental even if they don't understand it.&nbsp; Orcus and Fraz are on the border between the divine and the epic mortal:&nbsp; they are beginning to understand how to affect the transcendental and abstract, but they still haven't mastered it.The injunction is unwritten because for the most part it's unneeded.&nbsp; Meddling at the Prime level is inefficient, and most would prefer not to go there.&nbsp; The problem is, there's a risk of an &quot;arms race&quot; of popping into the Prime, disrupting the assumptions of another God's transcendent activities, and popping out again.&nbsp; Soon gods are either spending all their time popping into the prime to oppose one another, and losing the benefits of the outer planes, or they give up on a specific world and all the worshipers who come with it (and, in the long term, have less souls to help in their &quot;Great Work&quot; on the Outer Planes).&nbsp;. . . . . . . -- Eric</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Pyske, post: 1299823, member: 3567"] The outer planes allow the gods to spread their power. When the gods act on the outer planes, they act on a metaphysical level, and thus affect everything at once. When they go to the prime, to act directly, they can only affect instances, rather than concepts: the prime is the plane of instances. In general, it is a more efficient use of a god's time to fix things on a metaphysical level. Only when an instance threatens to affect the entire system is the instance worth bothering with. [i]Gods are the ultimate object-oriented programmers. They almost always manage to fix things in the base classes.[/i] ;) In addition, the time spent dealing with the instance is time the other gods spent working at a more efficient level. The gods are involved in an elaborate game of "chicken" to try to get someone else (the other divinities) to fix the problem, or at least put in their share of the effort. Naturally, the good gods are willing to do their share, but they don't want to leave the evil gods unopposed while doing so. So they play a game of brinksmanship to convince the evil gods to help out. The reason Prime gods interact on the Prime is that they are representations of specific things (i.e. [i]this[/i] world, not the concept of "world" in general). Demons and such interact with the specific because they don't have the insight to interact with the universe on a more fundamental level. However, as agents of the gods (or in thwarting agents of the gods), they can affect the transcendental even if they don't understand it. Orcus and Fraz are on the border between the divine and the epic mortal: they are beginning to understand how to affect the transcendental and abstract, but they still haven't mastered it. The injunction is unwritten because for the most part it's unneeded. Meddling at the Prime level is inefficient, and most would prefer not to go there. The problem is, there's a risk of an "arms race" of popping into the Prime, disrupting the assumptions of another God's transcendent activities, and popping out again. Soon gods are either spending all their time popping into the prime to oppose one another, and losing the benefits of the outer planes, or they give up on a specific world and all the worshipers who come with it (and, in the long term, have less souls to help in their "Great Work" on the Outer Planes). . . . . . . . -- Eric [/QUOTE]

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