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DracoMorpheus
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Summary:: A Standard Model for Fantasy Role-Playing?
Greetings fellow nerds. I am an amateur when it comes to cosmology. I know little in terms of cosmology beyond what I've seen on documentaries, of which I have watched dozens, if not hundreds. I've read Hyperspace by Michio Kaku and Black Holes and Baby Universes, A Brief History of Time, The Universe in a Nutshell and Theory of Everything by S.W. Hawking. However, I have no formal training in physics or cosmology beyond the high school level, and I only passed physics with a C. Hence why I am seeking help from someone smarter than myself.
You see, I am a Dungeon Master for 3.5 D&D and have been DMing for over 20 years now. The trouble is, my campaigns have gotten stale and over the years I've lost touch with the people who helped me build them and played in them. So I've decided to start fresh with a brand new Universe for a brand new campaign setting. I would like very much to design the laws of physics for this universe which produce a universe which is similar in size, scale and structure to our own, only the standard model for this universe would need to include exotic particles to allow for magic, divine beings, psionics, the force or other such mystical abilities and phenomena.
Let's get started with Quintessence, since quintessence is what gods are made of and Powerful divine beings which I have created as a DM shall create. According to the Immortals Handbook, which is one of many Supplement books I use in my campaigns, quintessence is made up of three components; Atma (Spirit), Buddhi (Soul) & Mana (Magic). In this way, Divinity springs forth from a combination of these three elementary particles in much the same way quarks combine to form baryons. For those of us who use Psionics supplements in our campaigns, there could be psionic gods and goddesses whose Divinity is comprised of "D-baryons" made of Atma, Buddhi & Psi instead. The Same may be possible for force gods if we substitute another hypothetical exotic particle (Midi-chlorians, perhaps?).
The ultimate question I am proposing here, is there any way we could build a consistent model, similar to the standard model, to explain physics in D&D?
Greetings fellow nerds. I am an amateur when it comes to cosmology. I know little in terms of cosmology beyond what I've seen on documentaries, of which I have watched dozens, if not hundreds. I've read Hyperspace by Michio Kaku and Black Holes and Baby Universes, A Brief History of Time, The Universe in a Nutshell and Theory of Everything by S.W. Hawking. However, I have no formal training in physics or cosmology beyond the high school level, and I only passed physics with a C. Hence why I am seeking help from someone smarter than myself.
You see, I am a Dungeon Master for 3.5 D&D and have been DMing for over 20 years now. The trouble is, my campaigns have gotten stale and over the years I've lost touch with the people who helped me build them and played in them. So I've decided to start fresh with a brand new Universe for a brand new campaign setting. I would like very much to design the laws of physics for this universe which produce a universe which is similar in size, scale and structure to our own, only the standard model for this universe would need to include exotic particles to allow for magic, divine beings, psionics, the force or other such mystical abilities and phenomena.
Let's get started with Quintessence, since quintessence is what gods are made of and Powerful divine beings which I have created as a DM shall create. According to the Immortals Handbook, which is one of many Supplement books I use in my campaigns, quintessence is made up of three components; Atma (Spirit), Buddhi (Soul) & Mana (Magic). In this way, Divinity springs forth from a combination of these three elementary particles in much the same way quarks combine to form baryons. For those of us who use Psionics supplements in our campaigns, there could be psionic gods and goddesses whose Divinity is comprised of "D-baryons" made of Atma, Buddhi & Psi instead. The Same may be possible for force gods if we substitute another hypothetical exotic particle (Midi-chlorians, perhaps?).
The ultimate question I am proposing here, is there any way we could build a consistent model, similar to the standard model, to explain physics in D&D?
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