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<blockquote data-quote="Maldin" data-source="post: 2493030" data-attributes="member: 27170"><p>In my campaign, evolution is the primary force, with rare true creation (although it does happen). The stories of gods creating races is merely deistic propaganda. The present gods are no where even close to the original gods... who had their own propaganda before that. "Keep'em in the dark, and you keep'em yours" is the multiversal "Motto of the Deities". After the Multiverse formed, there were several primary "beings" who helped shaped its present form (see my website for my ultimate Grand Unified Theory of all D&D - "Life, the Multiverse, and Everything"), but since then the "gods/powers" have had only minor effect on the planes and life on them.</p><p></p><p>The key is that the D&D Multiverse is drenched in magical (and other) energies, and I consider magic to be the ultimate mutagen. Life in a D&D multiverse would evolve and change at a (relatively) blinding speed by RealWorld(tm) standards. Hence noticable changes occur over thousands of years, and not millions of years. In Greyhawk, for example the Lerara have evolved from humans in a mere 1000 years, while races with long lifespans (like dwarves and elves) can remain relatively unchanged for 10's of thousands of years. However, because of magic's powerful mutagenic influence, even those races can speciate into new sub-species under the right conditions.</p><p></p><p>Denis, aka "Maldin"</p><p>=============================</p><p>Maldin's Greyhawk <a href="http://melkot.com" target="_blank">http://melkot.com</a></p><p>Check out the ton of cool Edition-independent stuff on my website, New Spells, Magic Items, Notoriety, Artifacts, Kyuss, secrets of the Twin Cataclysms, the Codex of the Infinite Planes, the Dreadwood, the cities of Melkot, Greyhawk and Irongate, a Grand Unified Theory for all of D&D, magic and the Multiverse, and much, much more!!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Maldin, post: 2493030, member: 27170"] In my campaign, evolution is the primary force, with rare true creation (although it does happen). The stories of gods creating races is merely deistic propaganda. The present gods are no where even close to the original gods... who had their own propaganda before that. "Keep'em in the dark, and you keep'em yours" is the multiversal "Motto of the Deities". After the Multiverse formed, there were several primary "beings" who helped shaped its present form (see my website for my ultimate Grand Unified Theory of all D&D - "Life, the Multiverse, and Everything"), but since then the "gods/powers" have had only minor effect on the planes and life on them. The key is that the D&D Multiverse is drenched in magical (and other) energies, and I consider magic to be the ultimate mutagen. Life in a D&D multiverse would evolve and change at a (relatively) blinding speed by RealWorld(tm) standards. Hence noticable changes occur over thousands of years, and not millions of years. In Greyhawk, for example the Lerara have evolved from humans in a mere 1000 years, while races with long lifespans (like dwarves and elves) can remain relatively unchanged for 10's of thousands of years. However, because of magic's powerful mutagenic influence, even those races can speciate into new sub-species under the right conditions. Denis, aka "Maldin" ============================= Maldin's Greyhawk [url]http://melkot.com[/url] Check out the ton of cool Edition-independent stuff on my website, New Spells, Magic Items, Notoriety, Artifacts, Kyuss, secrets of the Twin Cataclysms, the Codex of the Infinite Planes, the Dreadwood, the cities of Melkot, Greyhawk and Irongate, a Grand Unified Theory for all of D&D, magic and the Multiverse, and much, much more!! [/QUOTE]
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