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<blockquote data-quote="Haldrik" data-source="post: 8083944" data-attributes="member: 6694221"><p>Yeah, that is why conflicting narratives are useful for game design, and why it is important to avoid baking in a cosmological setting into the core rules.</p><p></p><p>It is nice to be able to use the same rules for different kinds of worlds.</p><p></p><p>The section about elves mentions "gods" in the context of one of the conflicting worldviews. These gods may or may not exist, depending on the narrative. It feels Eberron-like, in its subjectivity that lacks objective certainty. I value this design approach.</p><p></p><p>For me, the reallife elven traditions resonate. Both the Charisma of personal presence (and of bards, charm, song, art, persuasive advising, even politics in elven courts, even Intimidation in the sense of spookiness) and the Comeliness of transforming ones body into a work of art, are central to the elf concept. Beauty is something the elves do instinctively.</p><p></p><p>At the same time, I am a fan of options that empower the player to decide what the character will be. </p><p></p><p>Players even have a say in what kind of world they want to play in. If a game will have gods or not, the players are as important as the DM to decide something like that.</p><p></p><p>I am Jewish and dont want gods, because of reallife ethnic reasons.</p><p></p><p>At the same time, I am comfortable with animism, because that is pre-theistic, and involves no worship.</p><p></p><p>Elves themselves are nature spirits (of the sunrays).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Haldrik, post: 8083944, member: 6694221"] Yeah, that is why conflicting narratives are useful for game design, and why it is important to avoid baking in a cosmological setting into the core rules. It is nice to be able to use the same rules for different kinds of worlds. The section about elves mentions "gods" in the context of one of the conflicting worldviews. These gods may or may not exist, depending on the narrative. It feels Eberron-like, in its subjectivity that lacks objective certainty. I value this design approach. For me, the reallife elven traditions resonate. Both the Charisma of personal presence (and of bards, charm, song, art, persuasive advising, even politics in elven courts, even Intimidation in the sense of spookiness) and the Comeliness of transforming ones body into a work of art, are central to the elf concept. Beauty is something the elves do instinctively. At the same time, I am a fan of options that empower the player to decide what the character will be. Players even have a say in what kind of world they want to play in. If a game will have gods or not, the players are as important as the DM to decide something like that. I am Jewish and dont want gods, because of reallife ethnic reasons. At the same time, I am comfortable with animism, because that is pre-theistic, and involves no worship. Elves themselves are nature spirits (of the sunrays). [/QUOTE]
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