Upgrade your account to a Community Supporter account and remove most of the site ads.
Rocket your D&D 5E and Level Up: Advanced 5E games into space! Alpha Star Magazine Is Launching... Right Now!

Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="Majoru Oakheart" data-source="post: 6779923" data-attributes="member: 5143">A large amount of the FR material is written assuming that FR is the ONLY universe.  Yes, periodically, some authors have written tie ins to other worlds and in 2e all the worlds were forcibly connected together using the Great Wheel.  However, I tend to think of the words as separate universes entirely.Each crystal sphere created in the image of the gods that are native to that sphere.  They control everything about how reality works in that sphere: Where the dead go, how magic works, how you get your spells if you're a cleric, and so on.  To make it easier for the DM, there's a "galactic default" that a large number of crystal spheres are set to.  But I don't look at it as so much "blocking the ability to worship causes" as having changed their universe to a different setting.  I like to think that the reason you are able to worship "causes" is that when they were creating the crystal sphere there was a drop down menu that said "yes" or "no".  And if you picked yes, the gods had to give out power to those people who didn't even know their names.  So someone who worshiped "Justice" still got their powers from Heironeous or whatever but they had no idea that was the case.Ao, when he was creating the universe (or maybe the gods jointly decided shortly after the universe existed) decided that if someone was going to worship the gods in FR, they were going to darn well know the name of the god giving them the power.It's possible to go to other worlds where the rules work differently, but all but the most learned sages or powerful wizards on the planet have no idea that things work differently elsewhere.  It's just the way things work here.</blockquote>

Verification