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<blockquote data-quote="I'm A Banana" data-source="post: 4813711" data-attributes="member: 2067">Well, firstly, belief doesn't have to be the ONLY cause of reality in the multiverse. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> It's quite possible that gods animate and ancient texts exist totally independent of what people believe to be the case.But the bigger matter is mostly: how does it affect the game?IMXP, the consensual multiverse model means that you can go slay demons in a million different hells and it never gets old. That you can fight waves of a billion different types of angels and they all look different. That you can go to heaven and be reincarnated, both.A more authoritarian model of existence wouldn't have that level of wiggle-room. Not that one is necessarily better than the other, in my mind, just that a consensual multiverse gives you an open playing field. Others can be appealing in their own way.Of course, I hold to the view that 4e's cosmology is &quot;only a model&quot; and that everything that was once in PS is still out there, even if they don't write anything about it. It works pretty well...I'm looking forward to my PS4e campaign. I might do it via MapTool, so if people want to get in on it.... <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="I'm A Banana, post: 4813711, member: 2067"] Well, firstly, belief doesn't have to be the ONLY cause of reality in the multiverse. ;) It's quite possible that gods animate and ancient texts exist totally independent of what people believe to be the case. But the bigger matter is mostly: how does it affect the game? IMXP, the consensual multiverse model means that you can go slay demons in a million different hells and it never gets old. That you can fight waves of a billion different types of angels and they all look different. That you can go to heaven and be reincarnated, both. A more authoritarian model of existence wouldn't have that level of wiggle-room. Not that one is necessarily better than the other, in my mind, just that a consensual multiverse gives you an open playing field. Others can be appealing in their own way. Of course, I hold to the view that 4e's cosmology is "only a model" and that everything that was once in PS is still out there, even if they don't write anything about it. It works pretty well...I'm looking forward to my PS4e campaign. I might do it via MapTool, so if people want to get in on it.... ;) [/QUOTE]

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