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[Sirus]

Why stop at band names? I'm sure DF could provide us with some great song names as well.

What about: "The Song of Singing"?

Would have to be an a capella song.

Along with The Song of Signing and the Song of Singeing. Brilliant.

[Chaoswizkid]

I feel like any DF-affiliated band, or at least the first one, should be named Boatmurdered. Kind of the first spin-off anything of DF should be named Boatmurdered.

[Il Palazzo]

Carl Sagan died. D:

[Skyrunner]

....in 1996, iirc >__>

[Il Palazzo]

Yeah.

[Tellemurius]

Carl Mercek died. D:

[Neonivek]

What was the criticism for it? It sounds interesting, perhaps you just presented it poorly or it needs more development or whatever you want to use it for won't work out well

"If the planets are gods why don't they just summon up a destructive force to kill all the pesky humans?"

Which frankly my answer is that they cannot. They aren't omnipotent.

[Darvi]

Say what. How else do you explain earthquakes, typhoons and volcanic eruptions, HMMMM?

[Neonivek]

Say what. How else do you explain earthquakes, typhoons and volcanic eruptions, HMMMM?

Yes but why doesn't that god create a SUPER tornado that happens over every single human?

[Fniff]

Well, you did say they're extremely passive. They are living planets: who cares what the humans on them do? Planets survive everything short of a cataclysmic event.

[Darvi]

Because it'd be outright MAD to do so. The world would tear itself apart.

[Neonivek]

Well, you did say they're extremely passive. They are living planets: who cares what the humans on them do? Planets survive everything short of a cataclysmic event.

Honestly I my idea was that their hostility towards how civilization enacts upon them is reflected in monsters, creatures, disasters, and such. Where a planet's entire personality and domains are dependent on the environment. Change too much and you create what is essentially an ecological shift.

[LordSlowpoke]

Say what. How else do you explain earthquakes, typhoons and volcanic eruptions, HMMMM?

Yes but why doesn't that god create a SUPER tornado that happens over every single human?

here's something for you: the earthgod feeds off misery. humans bring in a lot of misery, and by killing humans once in a while it causes grief, which works like misery more or less

there are so many humans now that earthgodbro has ridiculous amounts of food and has no reason to kill us all (though you can assume they'd be capable of doing so)

i'm not exactly supportive of the "planets are gods" theory but that's more because i've never spoken to earth, it's probably busy doing earh stuff anyway and would yell at me

[Neonivek]

The thing is... what is a god is very culture dependent.

Which is what I am starting to see is the largest barrier to the setting, because the modern day perception of what a deity is basically an all powerful being.

When, for example, the Norse Gods were a lot more limited and could even be slain by ordinary humans. Odin couldn't kill all humans if he wanted to, not even close. The Genus Loci of the Romans had all the power of a guardian angel (weak in other words). As well the Celestial Bureaucracy had gods of such diminutive status that they were less powerful then bugs.

The Planets are gods they just aren't the sort of gods who instantly manifest or communicate constantly and clearly. They have great power but in the same way that we have great power over our bodies. We cannot drive our hand into our own bodies to pull out diseases, but we can eat healthy, exercise, and drink anti-biotics.

But the thing is... if I cannot communicate that, then there is no point. If it cannot be understood, there is no point.

[LordSlowpoke]

certainly you are onto something.

a god, in the most simple definition, is a being which takes in power and puts it where it is desired. it's sort of wonky as it puts anything living as a god (takes in matter, processes it to sustain life)

people like to claim it implies sentience but that's not really the case; you see this clearly on the ones which establish "nodes" which are more or less energy transit points between planes

at the least, this is my understanding put into something that isn't a 30 page or larger work.