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<blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 9576729" data-attributes="member: 177">Yes, primarily because &quot;madness&quot; has squat all to do with randomness.&nbsp; Limbo is part of the spiritual makeup of the rest of reality.&nbsp; Its chaos is the chaos of what is, and can be.&nbsp; It is unpredictable, but its nature is still comprehensible.&nbsp; Slaad are a fine example here - frog-monsters are just, you know, big monstrous frogs.&nbsp; Nobody with a lick of sense would make these frog monsters, but they aren't fundamentally incomprehensible.The Far Realm, meanwhile, is not part of the rest of reality, spiritually or otherwise.&nbsp; It doesn't follow the same rules, and so interaction with it exposes one to things that fundamentally should not exist.&nbsp; The rules by which is works are not knowable to the mortal mind.&nbsp; The result of exposure to it, to trying to make sense of that which cannot be understood by mortal minds for lack of context, is psychic trauma - what laymen refer to as &quot;madness&quot;.So, the difference is thus:Limbo - nobody with a lick of sense would do this, but here we are.Far Realm - I am looking at an object, possibly &quot;living&quot;, rotating through more spatial dimensions than my brain can grasp, and so my brain breaks when it tries to work out what is going on.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Umbran, post: 9576729, member: 177"] Yes, primarily because "madness" has squat all to do with randomness. Limbo is part of the spiritual makeup of the rest of reality. Its chaos is the chaos of what is, and can be. It is unpredictable, but its nature is still comprehensible. Slaad are a fine example here - frog-monsters are just, you know, big monstrous frogs. Nobody with a lick of sense would make these frog monsters, but they aren't fundamentally incomprehensible. The Far Realm, meanwhile, is not part of the rest of reality, spiritually or otherwise. It doesn't follow the same rules, and so interaction with it exposes one to things that fundamentally [I]should not[/I] exist. The rules by which is works are not knowable to the mortal mind. The result of exposure to it, to trying to make sense of that which cannot be understood by mortal minds for lack of context, is psychic trauma - what laymen refer to as "madness". So, the difference is thus: Limbo - nobody with a lick of sense would do this, but here we are. Far Realm - I am looking at an object, possibly "living", rotating through more spatial dimensions than my brain can grasp, and so my brain breaks when it tries to work out what is going on. [/QUOTE]

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