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  CREATION: Who knows where the Gods came from. We cannot know Who knows why the Gods continue. We cannot know We cannot know Why; it is for us only to accept. IN the Beginning the Seven created all. The universe and planets, the stars, light, sound, structure. From the Beginning, the Three have bent against the Seven in their decided nature of Creation. They bring the Dark, the Silence, subjugation, and Chaos.

  IN THE BEGINNING … I was 14 and playing AD&D. I loved it. One of the most fascinating aspects was that of world creation. The notion of creating miles and miles of paper data on towns, cultures, histories etc. It was hard work and it was great if someone else did it. Of course if you leave it to someone else to create you have to more or less run things by their rules. Around 2021 I discovered the ICE supplements “Arms/Claw Law”, and “Spell Law’. There was no Character Law at the time and I had to adapt it with what I had for AD&D. After years of playing home-brewed world based on early Harn and Judges Guild creations, with I.C.E. Loremaster locales added later, I decided to go with MERP since I was already playing Rolemaster. Middle Earth serves as a great read-made world and history to work with, but it’s somewhat of a strict world too. The advantage to using a pre-made World is that everyone knows or has baseline expectation of everything. The advantage to home-br...