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<blockquote data-quote="Tony Vargas" data-source="post: 6691548" data-attributes="member: 996"><p>Sure, people are fully capable of holding beliefs in the face of evidence that conclusively refutes those beliefs. </p><p></p><p>A more nuanced version of Atheism might accept the D&D the realities of divine spellcasting and extremely powerful extra-dimensional beings worshiped as gods, without believing they were actually everything they claimed (didn't create the world, for instance, or don't have a 'right' to be worshiped, or otherwise just play-acting the part, like Zardoz). </p><p></p><p> Not much. You're dead. You still might come back: It's mostly the mortal casting the Raise Dead spell that's making the decision to bring you back, the gods probably aren't much concerned about your irrationality in life. Your corpse could still be animated or subjected to Speak w/Dead or whatever. </p><p></p><p>Devils would probably consider you unclaimed property and try to make off with your soul, sure. There also might be some merciful good-aligned deities inclined to forgive your disbelief if you were good enough in life. Limbo (the plane of Chaotic Neutrality) also strikes me as a likely destination - not sure why, it just does. Haunting the earth as ghost or other undead might be a possibility, too, if the gods are petulant enough to reject you from the afterlife, entirely.</p><p></p><p>Really, there's a broad range of possibilities that you, as DM, can decide upon. But the basic idea that the PC can willfully dis-believe in the gods in a universe where they objectively exist is not that much of a stretch.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Tony Vargas, post: 6691548, member: 996"] Sure, people are fully capable of holding beliefs in the face of evidence that conclusively refutes those beliefs. A more nuanced version of Atheism might accept the D&D the realities of divine spellcasting and extremely powerful extra-dimensional beings worshiped as gods, without believing they were actually everything they claimed (didn't create the world, for instance, or don't have a 'right' to be worshiped, or otherwise just play-acting the part, like Zardoz). Not much. You're dead. You still might come back: It's mostly the mortal casting the Raise Dead spell that's making the decision to bring you back, the gods probably aren't much concerned about your irrationality in life. Your corpse could still be animated or subjected to Speak w/Dead or whatever. Devils would probably consider you unclaimed property and try to make off with your soul, sure. There also might be some merciful good-aligned deities inclined to forgive your disbelief if you were good enough in life. Limbo (the plane of Chaotic Neutrality) also strikes me as a likely destination - not sure why, it just does. Haunting the earth as ghost or other undead might be a possibility, too, if the gods are petulant enough to reject you from the afterlife, entirely. Really, there's a broad range of possibilities that you, as DM, can decide upon. But the basic idea that the PC can willfully dis-believe in the gods in a universe where they objectively exist is not that much of a stretch. [/QUOTE]
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