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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Matthias" data-source="post: 5938453" data-attributes="member: 3625">Pertaining to a community-made Cosmology, I would say it already exists...Let's start with the assumption that more than one cosmology can exist at a time. Every GM who's ever run a game has at least one and there can be many duplicates; for example, Bob's Forgotten Realms is unique and separate from Mike's Forgotten Realms even if they draw from identical published source material. (Thus the Elminster in Bob's game can act independently from the one in Mike's game and have different experiences, even when both campaigns are being run at the same time.)Let's also define a term: The Omniverse, which consists of all cosmologies anyone has ever made; Bob's, Mike's, Matthias', everyone's. Any gamer, EGG or anyone. All the cosmologies that person has ever developed exist in this Omniverse.Bob and Mike could have different campaigns going at once, and even have separate games going on in different cosmologies. Bob and Mike can each maintain multiple cosmologies, each using different house rules and even different gaming systems, within their respective GM'ing careers. And any cosmology run by Bob will have Bob's personality and imagination, and Mike's cosmologies will also share some similarities. So it may be said Bob's cosmologies comprise one distinct "region" of the Omniverse, which we will call a Paraverse. A Paraverse could have more than one GM, most of which are owned collectively by several persons or by a corporate entity such as WOTC. Living Greyhawk and Pathfinder Society Organized Play exist in Paraverses such as these.To recap:The Omniverse consists of thousands or millions of Paraverses (one per GM or organizational structure) and each Paraverse is made up of at least one Multiverse (each a single cosmology) which in turn will have one or more Universes (or individual planes of existence).Travel between Universes is the well-established process of plane shifting; travel between Multiverses within the same Paraverse is not well-defined but could occur as "crossover" campaigns. Travel between Paraverses is not normally possible unless the Paraverse's GM allows that character to be brought in from another GM's campaign world--and even then, it may be not so much a transfer but a duplication or a conversion.</blockquote>

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