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<blockquote data-quote="paradox42" data-source="post: 5760938" data-attributes="member: 29746"><p>There are no specific rulings about which divine status is supposed to represent what sort of area or region. Krust has said a few things, but when pressed on specifics and comparisons between the modern-Earth scientific vision of a universe and his (necessary) interaction with the D&D multiverse, he has always backed away. And he should, because in the end it always comes down to individual DM choice anyway.</p><p> </p><p>Take me for example. As those who've read my <a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/eternity-publishing-hosted-forum/271501-paradox42s-crazy-cosmology.html" target="_blank">"Crazy Cosmology"</a> thread know, I flatly ignored Krust's recommendations for HD compared against DR, and even DR compared against divine status, when going to beings of Greater Deity or higher status. This was because the official version introduced in Ascension didn't fit with my personal game setting. And I specifically defined the terms "universe," "plane," "multiverse," "cosmos," "dimension," and even "Reality" (the capital R is very important there) so as to link them to the rules for divine and higher beings.</p><p> </p><p>If you want beings specifically to represent planets, star systems, stellar clusters, galaxies, and galactic clusters and superclusters, but then you also want beings to represent the various planes of the multiverse, you really just need to sit down and work out your own setting's needs for yourself, because the D&D rules do <strong>not</strong> in any way assume the sort of universe we on modern-day Earth are used to thinking about.</p><p> </p><p>For the record, I myself did not presume any sort of divine (or higher) entity represented individual planets or galaxies in a scientific-type universe- I had a single Sidereal representing an <strong>entire</strong> scientific-type universe, since that is a single Prime Material Plane in the multiversal sense. Then, each alternate Prime/Material Plane had its own Sidereal (there were essentially an infinite number of such planes in my setting, so that's a lot of Sidereals), and there may or may not be a single "Old One" level Entity which represents <strong>all</strong> Material Planes at once. I never discussed the existence or nonexistence of such an Entity with my players, and the possibility of one never came up in game so I never really needed to.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="paradox42, post: 5760938, member: 29746"] There are no specific rulings about which divine status is supposed to represent what sort of area or region. Krust has said a few things, but when pressed on specifics and comparisons between the modern-Earth scientific vision of a universe and his (necessary) interaction with the D&D multiverse, he has always backed away. And he should, because in the end it always comes down to individual DM choice anyway. Take me for example. As those who've read my [URL=http://www.enworld.org/forum/eternity-publishing-hosted-forum/271501-paradox42s-crazy-cosmology.html]"Crazy Cosmology"[/URL] thread know, I flatly ignored Krust's recommendations for HD compared against DR, and even DR compared against divine status, when going to beings of Greater Deity or higher status. This was because the official version introduced in Ascension didn't fit with my personal game setting. And I specifically defined the terms "universe," "plane," "multiverse," "cosmos," "dimension," and even "Reality" (the capital R is very important there) so as to link them to the rules for divine and higher beings. If you want beings specifically to represent planets, star systems, stellar clusters, galaxies, and galactic clusters and superclusters, but then you also want beings to represent the various planes of the multiverse, you really just need to sit down and work out your own setting's needs for yourself, because the D&D rules do [B]not[/B] in any way assume the sort of universe we on modern-day Earth are used to thinking about. For the record, I myself did not presume any sort of divine (or higher) entity represented individual planets or galaxies in a scientific-type universe- I had a single Sidereal representing an [B]entire[/B] scientific-type universe, since that is a single Prime Material Plane in the multiversal sense. Then, each alternate Prime/Material Plane had its own Sidereal (there were essentially an infinite number of such planes in my setting, so that's a lot of Sidereals), and there may or may not be a single "Old One" level Entity which represents [B]all[/B] Material Planes at once. I never discussed the existence or nonexistence of such an Entity with my players, and the possibility of one never came up in game so I never really needed to. [/QUOTE]
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