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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 4982453" data-attributes="member: 82106">I'd say the 4e cosmology makes the material world pretty significant. Presumably gods require worshipers, though this is never really quite spelled out. The great spirits are also powerful entities which are entirely based only in the material world. Perhaps the primordials and demons don't care much about the material world, but then again they created it in the first place and the implication is there is and can only be ONE material world at a time. As for why the world isn't overrun with epic level beings if these other realms are endless and the material world is finite one doesn't have to wonder too much. These immortal beings don't have to operate on mortal timescales. They aren't in any particular hurry to get anything done. The more long-lived ones are presumably extremely risk-averse. They only do their thing when they have spent eons preparing or some very rare event takes place that gives them a unique opening to advance their plans. There very well may be a practically limitless number of these entities lurking out there laying plans and skirmishing with each other. Once in a great while one acts decisively and there is a big hubbub. Anyway, that's my take on it. Lots of stuff is buried away in forgotten (by mortals) places. Only rarely do mortals actually see signs of what goes on in the other realms. Of course whenever heroes rise to a certain level of power they are likely to run afoul of all sorts of things, but the average person and the average geographic area will be pretty quiet most of the time with maybe just minor servants of the powers doing small things.</blockquote>

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