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Message: <blockquote data-quote="fusangite" data-source="post: 1928894" data-attributes="member: 7240">What you've done here is what many Roman philosophers did: you have combined Stoicism and Platonism and put your own personal twist on them. This is all fine, as far as it goes, and it is surprisingly well-traversed ground. You've made the intelligible universe the universe of energy, thereby rendering it more physical (nicely Stoicizing the Platonic tendencies here) and you have made the demiurge and the creator god equals (adding a bit of a Manichean touch) and introduced change as a principle, which adds a nice oriental component to the theology that you wouldn't otherwise get (perhaps it's a dash a Taoism added to the mix). The creator vs. changer thing is again a nice physicalist riff on Platonism which argued for the pre-existence of matter and called "creation" the act of organizing and animating said matter. That's all fine. What I would suggest you really question is why your universe is composed of gases, energy, galaxies, etc. If there is a flaw in your model, it is there. This is a real mess if you are running D&D because D&D physics are not the physics of our universe. You seem to be writing a creation story appropriate for a sci-fi universe rather than a fantasy one. I'd recommend you rethink the physical similarities between your universe and ours. Remember: the universe you are designing is about magic not space travel, unless I'm very much mistaken, in which case, carry on.</blockquote>

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