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Originally Posted by tratclif
That reminds me of William Keith's great Pyramid article, "Tomos, The Divided Land."
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I know it.
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Originally Posted by tratclif
The Complex is a network of large lightless caverns that connect mana-positive worlds. That's been done before, but he worked out the Cabalistic cosmography of such a plane and fit it into the Infinite Worlds.
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See below.
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Originally Posted by tratclif
If the GURPS WLD is actually in Yetzirah or Briah that could justify the "genre convention" unreality of dungeon crawling.
Off to peruse Cabal to find the Decan for Dungeon Crawling.
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Because Briah and Yetzirah aren't physical realities, but the spiritual domain and the psychic domain respectively, then the WLD would need to involve some sort of "spirit travel"...
See, I don't have
GURPS Cabal, but I know something of Kabbalistic doctrine, its worldview and its ontological disposition. Kabbalah, not having relation at all with quantum physics, doesn't supports the viewpoint or belief about
Parallel Worlds (
1).
Instead, Kabbalah cosmography is the one of
Worlds Within Worlds (
2).
Parallel Worlds idea and
Worlds Within Worlds scheme are
very different.
I like GURPS being a generic and universal system, but when one picks a particular setting or genre for roleplaying (for instance, Fantasy or Dungeon Fantasy), I think using GURPS there for mutating it into a
multigenre-inconexed thing that results in an important lack of internal consistency...
For me such things are like "programation bugs", and I'm not up for that.
Cheer
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1) "This cosmology features multiple physical realities standing shoulder to shoulder" (Campaigns: Parallel Worlds, p. 521).
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2) "In this model, realities are nested one within the next -like the layers of an onion." (Campaigns: Worlds Within Worlds, p. 521).
Kabbalah division of worlds (ontological domains) corresponds to the
World Within Worlds model, being the all-encompassing onion Atziluth (I), then follows Beri'ah (II) inside Atziluth, then Yetzirah (III) inside Beri'ah, and finally Asiyah' (IV) inside Yetzirah.
Four worlds, not an
infinite number of them.
By the way, the
only physical world or reality in the Kabbalistic cosmos is Asiyah', our bodily world.