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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Upper_Krust" data-source="post: 177875" data-attributes="member: 326">Hi information mate! <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 think its overly critical to bash Chris [Pramas] because the cosmology he presented in a supplement doesn't blend seemlessly with every possible cosmogony.I wouldn't refer to it as an absurdity; but more likely a closed cosmology - specifically revolving round the Persian Mythos.Chris [Pramas] merely transplanted the dualism therein to the broader D&D multiverse.The problem lies in running these ideas in an open cosmology (it doesn't quite 'gel') - but thats a problem you are always going to face when you juxtapose multiple mythologies......though its not impossible! <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    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />Fair enough; but credit and criticism where its due - Monte (much as I love the guy) did balls up Tharizdun (for the purists anyway) in RttToEE (if indeed Monte was responsible for equating Tharizdun with Entropy!?). Then again, perhaps I am being overly critical myself (?) I suppose we'll never know how much of Gygax' initial concept of Tharizdun WotC legally had to play with!?</blockquote>

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