A Torn Opinion

By Daniels

Sat, 07 Oct 2017
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So I'm having this conflict in my World Building experience.  While I'm building a world for DnD 5e, I'm playing around with origin stories and messy stuff that comes with "Hey! A God of Creation made this world and these gods, and they made these dieties and would The God of Creation really make creatures just to die?" and the answer that I come up with from that is "No, probably not" But then you have to some how have that integrated into the world because a DnD world without the chance of death seems rather dull I'd say.

So I have The 3 Immortal Races going to war over Territory and such but... what's a war without death? How can there be a victory?  So what I'm really struggling with is do I initiate death before the war starts or is that how death is come to be discovered? It's a major internal conflict I'm having.

As of yet, I have The Main God getting pissed and being all "Damn you, why wont you live in harmony!? - Fine! Experience death!" And that works.  But still... It's just a struggle to make that fluid and trying to build a timeline out of loose threads is all very confusing and a little crazy @.@

That is all.

 

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Submitted by Philip Sidney on

It's tough being God. smiley

Submitted by airyfairy on

I know completely nothing about DnD (I do know what it stands for, not that ignorant!) but really intrigued by the question of how people would measure the outcome of war if there wasn't any death.  Also lots of other difficulties like where you put all the people, but it's an interesting aspect of world building.  Hope you find an answer to your dilemma.  

Submitted by Daniels on

Exactly.  I've adjusted my perspective a bit to where the God of creation didn't think Death was possible and finding out that her creations are killing each other 'breaks' her and in turn, the world. leading to an age of chaos and more gods/races being created through that chaos.