Jaeger
That someone better
That’s like saying when players and GM’s don’t engage with broken system mechanics that they’re the ones getting it wrong...
D&D General Is there an increase in "godless" campaign settings?
That’s like saying when players and GM’s don’t engage with broken system mechanics that they’re the ones getting it wrong...
Hell, all of the lower planes actually, are not a punishment in D&D. At least not intentionally.
The planes merely collect likeminded people so that in death they can continue to further the principles they followed while alive.
If you chose to live a LE live, you are send where you can continue to further LE's pull on the cosmos
Evil, Law, Good and Chaos are the four principle forces pulling on creation trying to etablish their dominance and there's no higher authority that can declare any of them being wrong. From a cosmic point of view all existance being consumed by evil is as valid as all existance being consumed by good.
There's no higher power that "condems" people to the lower planes for being evil, merely evil pulling all it's assessts together to strengthen itself. That those assessts make it misserable for each other is just them being dicks about it. Hell is other people is the most literal truth in D&D
Mind of tempest
(he/him)advocate for 5e psionics
and that is still a bad thing millions die in the blood war instead of being the evil accountant they wish to be.Hell, all of the lower planes actually, are not a punishment in D&D. At least not intentionally.
The planes merely collect likeminded people so that in death they can continue to further the principles they followed while alive.
If you chose to live a LE live, you are send where you can continue to further LE's pull on the cosmos
Evil, Law, Good and Chaos are the four principle forces pulling on creation trying to etablish their dominance and there's no higher authority that can declare any of them being wrong. From a cosmic point of view all existance being consumed by evil is as valid as all existance being consumed by good.
There's no higher power that "condems" people to the lower planes for being evil, merely evil pulling all it's assessts together to strengthen itself. That those assessts make it misserable for each other is just them being dicks about it. Hell is other people is the most literal truth in D&D
Whizbang Dustyboots
Gnometown Hero
A great example of how muddied the default D&D cosmology is.
"Your punishment is ... um, getting supernatural powers and being able to do even worse things for eternity."
PsyzhranV2
Hero
That's only if you're lucky. If you're not, you end up as an eternal slave to some jack-booted tyrant, or as fiend food.
Whizbang Dustyboots
Gnometown Hero
Don't all of the evil cosmologies have the prospect for rebirth and possible later ascension? I thought lemures and the like eventually reform and get another chance to work their way up to pit fiend.
Mind of tempest
(he/him)advocate for 5e psionics
the planes do seem to be rather horrible, frame it the right way and it turns to pure cosmic horror.
That's the point. It is not supposed to be a punishment. Good hasn't any higher authority than Evil or Law or Chaos.
Good may claim to judge and condemn people, but there's no cosmic truth behind it. It's just Good being too full of itself.
No overreaching authority stated that all should be good and then created the lower planes to punish those who sinned.
Just the four principle alignments entering reality from four different corners and immediately trying to pull everything into their corner.
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