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<blockquote data-quote="variant" data-source="post: 6312836" data-attributes="member: 41293">The biggest issue of the cosmological aspects of D&amp;D is that the cosmology makes little sense at all. First, why in the world would anyone worship a god that promises a horrible afterlife? Secondly, what is determining what is good and evil, chaos and law?&nbsp; There has to be some objective truth above the gods because the gods&nbsp; themselves have alignments and the planes they reside on are in a sense&nbsp; aligned as well. Thirdly, why does the Prime Material Plane even exist when there are perfectly habitable infinitely large peaceful planes and a potentially infinite amount of demiplanes? Why in the world would a god ever want to create a species of people on this plane when they could isolate their worshipers from all others?Fourthly, why do the planes exist at all? What's their ultimate purpose? Why do the gods exist?Fifthly, how are the planes infinite? An actual infinite leads to all kinds of absurdities, and if they are infinite, they cannot touch other planes. Also, if they are infinite then logically only one would exist and you would only really need one since it's infinite. After all, you could place Toril on a random point on an infinite plane and there would be no worry that it would have contact from anything it's not suppose to because in an infinite plane there would be infinite space between Toril and anything else. It's almost as if the cosmology was designed to violate Occam's razor.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="variant, post: 6312836, member: 41293"] The biggest issue of the cosmological aspects of D&D is that the cosmology makes little sense at all. First, why in the world would anyone worship a god that promises a horrible afterlife? Secondly, what is determining what is good and evil, chaos and law? There has to be some objective truth above the gods because the gods themselves have alignments and the planes they reside on are in a sense aligned as well. Thirdly, why does the Prime Material Plane even exist when there are perfectly habitable infinitely large peaceful planes and a potentially infinite amount of demiplanes? Why in the world would a god ever want to create a species of people on this plane when they could isolate their worshipers from all others? Fourthly, why do the planes exist at all? What's their ultimate purpose? Why do the gods exist? Fifthly, how are the planes infinite? An actual infinite leads to all kinds of absurdities, and if they are infinite, they cannot touch other planes. Also, if they are infinite then logically only one would exist and you would only really need one since it's infinite. After all, you could place Toril on a random point on an infinite plane and there would be no worry that it would have contact from anything it's not suppose to because in an infinite plane there would be infinite space between Toril and anything else. It's almost as if the cosmology was designed to violate Occam's razor. [/QUOTE]

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