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<blockquote data-quote="GreatLemur" data-source="post: 3584361" data-attributes="member: 28553">Honestly, I've never thought that a definitive creation myth was very important--or even necessarily desirable--for a campaign setting.&nbsp; A hell of a lot of settings start off with the old &quot;In the beginning, there was nothingness / darkness / chaos / a big cosmic sandbox...&quot; bit, and then drone on about the soap operas of the gods for a few pages, and I really haven't been able to see that stuff as interesting for a long, long time.The players characters are presumably going to be mortals, so I think it's a lot more worthwhile to start from a mortal's eye view: history, not mythology.&nbsp; You can get into the supposed origins of the world later on, in the religion section.This isn't a complaint about rycanada's purposes or methods, here (certainly, a DM oughta have some idea where his world came from, and that goes for setting authors, too).&nbsp; I'm really just bitching about tendencies I've seen in setting presentation throughout the hobby.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="GreatLemur, post: 3584361, member: 28553"] Honestly, I've never thought that a definitive creation myth was very important--or even necessarily desirable--for a campaign setting. A hell of a lot of settings start off with the old "In the beginning, there was nothingness / darkness / chaos / a big cosmic sandbox..." bit, and then drone on about the soap operas of the gods for a few pages, and I really haven't been able to see that stuff as interesting for a long, long time. The players characters are presumably going to be mortals, so I think it's a lot more worthwhile to start from a mortal's eye view: history, not mythology. You can get into the supposed origins of the world later on, in the religion section. This isn't a complaint about rycanada's purposes or methods, here (certainly, a DM oughta have some idea where his world came from, and that goes for setting authors, too). I'm really just bitching about tendencies I've seen in setting presentation throughout the hobby. [/QUOTE]

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