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Hitting a creative road block with my homebrew cosmology. Domains.
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<blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 8083882" data-attributes="member: 7006"><p>I suspect the roadblock you are running into is more regarding the fact that Order and Creation and then Chaos and Destruction are pretty much both the same things. The only difference is that Order and Chaos are states of being... while Creation and Destruction are the <em>acts</em> to reach those states of being.</p><p></p><p>In other words, Creation is the act of putting something into an Order. Destruction is the act of putting something into disorder, or Chaos. Thus... I don't see these four things as a pair of differing axis to define a world. Which I think is why there really aren't very strong ideas of Order/Destruction or Creation/Chaos... because you're essentially asking to find a combination of Order and Chaos, which is obviously just the center of the axis and thus useless to you.</p><p></p><p>I think the reason why Order and Chaos and Good and Evil were the two axis of traditional D&D is because Order and Good are not synonymous, nor are Chaos and Evil. Thus you <em>can</em> have Chaotic Goodness and Orderly Evil. But if you are looking to move away from Good and Evil as one of your Axis... you probably would need to find an entirely new pair of things to be an essential building block of your world that can work with Order and Chaos (which could also be defined as Creation and Destruction, or Stasis and Movement).</p><p></p><p>So you could have pairs like Rational / Emotional... Physical / Spiritual... Light / Dark... Instinctual / Learned. Pairs of these types you would probably have an easier time finding the Venn overlaps with when coupled with Order and Chaos.</p><p></p><p>Best of luck!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DEFCON 1, post: 8083882, member: 7006"] I suspect the roadblock you are running into is more regarding the fact that Order and Creation and then Chaos and Destruction are pretty much both the same things. The only difference is that Order and Chaos are states of being... while Creation and Destruction are the [I]acts[/I] to reach those states of being. In other words, Creation is the act of putting something into an Order. Destruction is the act of putting something into disorder, or Chaos. Thus... I don't see these four things as a pair of differing axis to define a world. Which I think is why there really aren't very strong ideas of Order/Destruction or Creation/Chaos... because you're essentially asking to find a combination of Order and Chaos, which is obviously just the center of the axis and thus useless to you. I think the reason why Order and Chaos and Good and Evil were the two axis of traditional D&D is because Order and Good are not synonymous, nor are Chaos and Evil. Thus you [I]can[/I] have Chaotic Goodness and Orderly Evil. But if you are looking to move away from Good and Evil as one of your Axis... you probably would need to find an entirely new pair of things to be an essential building block of your world that can work with Order and Chaos (which could also be defined as Creation and Destruction, or Stasis and Movement). So you could have pairs like Rational / Emotional... Physical / Spiritual... Light / Dark... Instinctual / Learned. Pairs of these types you would probably have an easier time finding the Venn overlaps with when coupled with Order and Chaos. Best of luck! [/QUOTE]
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