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Is Paladine Bahamut? Is Takhisis Tiamat? Fizban's Treasury Might Reveal The Answer!
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<blockquote data-quote="Urriak Uruk" data-source="post: 8347207" data-attributes="member: 7015558"><p>Well, you're asking for my opinion, so I'll explain mine. To be clear, I don't think this is objectively better, because it actually isn't for every table and the game style they prefer.</p><p></p><p>The reason I prefer there to be an umbrella cosmology that connects all worlds (even if individual worlds have their own smaller, unique cosmologies) is that it makes the Multiverse seem more natural. It hints that there is a commonality to all worlds, that they all share an origin. It feels like how all life evolved from one single-celled organism. It makes my Multiverse feel more real, the gods seem more powerful and prescient, if there are commonalities and shared origins across worlds. It makes the Multiverse feel bigger, and the PCs feel smaller, compared the workings of the Multiverse. A PC prays to Bahamut, but that same god is listening to billions of prayers across the Planescape (or the Timescape, or the Multiverse). A god is unfathomable to a PCs tiny mind.</p><p></p><p>That said, I also like when there are exceptions like Eberron; I like how that world explicitly states that somehow, for some reason, it managed to cut itself off from the greater Multiverse and form its own cosmology around itself. It adds to the mystery when there are exceptions to the norm.</p><p></p><p>This is again, just my opinion. There are plenty of reasons not to like any of the above, but this is how I feel.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Urriak Uruk, post: 8347207, member: 7015558"] Well, you're asking for my opinion, so I'll explain mine. To be clear, I don't think this is objectively better, because it actually isn't for every table and the game style they prefer. The reason I prefer there to be an umbrella cosmology that connects all worlds (even if individual worlds have their own smaller, unique cosmologies) is that it makes the Multiverse seem more natural. It hints that there is a commonality to all worlds, that they all share an origin. It feels like how all life evolved from one single-celled organism. It makes my Multiverse feel more real, the gods seem more powerful and prescient, if there are commonalities and shared origins across worlds. It makes the Multiverse feel bigger, and the PCs feel smaller, compared the workings of the Multiverse. A PC prays to Bahamut, but that same god is listening to billions of prayers across the Planescape (or the Timescape, or the Multiverse). A god is unfathomable to a PCs tiny mind. That said, I also like when there are exceptions like Eberron; I like how that world explicitly states that somehow, for some reason, it managed to cut itself off from the greater Multiverse and form its own cosmology around itself. It adds to the mystery when there are exceptions to the norm. This is again, just my opinion. There are plenty of reasons not to like any of the above, but this is how I feel. [/QUOTE]
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