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<blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 6380609" data-attributes="member: 42582">Just for the sake of clarity: the 4e cosmology esablishes clear stakes. It doesn't prescribe how the PCs address those stakes. Which is to say, the players are free to form their own conceptions of what counts as a heroic response to the world on fire.For instance, in my own 4e game one PC is a deva servant of Erathis, Bane and several other gods who wields the Sceptre of Law; and another is a chaos sorcerer and Emergent Primordial, devoted to Corellon and to Chan, the Queen of Good Elemental Creatures. A third is a Marshall of Letherna and fanatical devotee of the Raven Queen.These characters have different conceptions of how to respond to the stakes that the 4e background establishes: one wants to rebuild the Lattice of Heaven and establish divine order; another wants to overthrow Lolth, free the drow and allow the mortal world to continue in an equilibrium of order and chaos; the third wants to uphold and extend the Raven Queen's power over the fates of mortals.I'm sure there are a lot of other feasible PC concepts and goals, too, that engage with the stakes of a world on fire.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="pemerton, post: 6380609, member: 42582"] Just for the sake of clarity: the 4e cosmology esablishes clear stakes. It doesn't prescribe how the PCs address those stakes. Which is to say, the players are free to form their own conceptions of what counts as a heroic response to the world on fire. For instance, in my own 4e game one PC is a deva servant of Erathis, Bane and several other gods who wields the Sceptre of Law; and another is a chaos sorcerer and Emergent Primordial, devoted to Corellon and to Chan, the Queen of Good Elemental Creatures. A third is a Marshall of Letherna and fanatical devotee of the Raven Queen. These characters have different conceptions of how to respond to the stakes that the 4e background establishes: one wants to rebuild the Lattice of Heaven and establish divine order; another wants to overthrow Lolth, free the drow and allow the mortal world to continue in an equilibrium of order and chaos; the third wants to uphold and extend the Raven Queen's power over the fates of mortals. I'm sure there are a lot of other feasible PC concepts and goals, too, that engage with the stakes of a world on fire. [/QUOTE]

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