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<blockquote data-quote="trancejeremy" data-source="post: 1220682" data-attributes="member: 924"><p>Quite frankly, I've never understood why anyone (a character) would want to worship a D&D style god. This came to mind as I was reading a Forgotten Realms novel the other day (the first novel in the Rogues series - it featured a fight between Tiamat & some other god).</p><p></p><p>In most cases, they are more or less just powerful people. If you read a lot of the old Greek stuff, you get the impression that most of them didn't have much use for those sort of gods, either.</p><p></p><p>I can see worshipping an omnipotent god, or something like the mother godness (ie, the embodiment of nature), but worshipping something like the god of wine or god of hairbrushes just seems silly.</p><p></p><p>Most of the D&D god worship seems to be simply bribes. If you worship the god of x, you'll get power of some sort. That's always rubbed me the wrong way. A quote by a semi-famous Islamic writer has always struck a chord with me:</p><p></p><p>"I will not serve God like a laborer, in expectation of my wages."</p><p></p><p>I cannot see most people worshipping a D&D style god in that manner. </p><p></p><p>Anyway, my point was, in my campaigns, all clerics are godless. They might think they're worshipping a god, but ultimately the power is coming from within themselves, not an external source.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="trancejeremy, post: 1220682, member: 924"] Quite frankly, I've never understood why anyone (a character) would want to worship a D&D style god. This came to mind as I was reading a Forgotten Realms novel the other day (the first novel in the Rogues series - it featured a fight between Tiamat & some other god). In most cases, they are more or less just powerful people. If you read a lot of the old Greek stuff, you get the impression that most of them didn't have much use for those sort of gods, either. I can see worshipping an omnipotent god, or something like the mother godness (ie, the embodiment of nature), but worshipping something like the god of wine or god of hairbrushes just seems silly. Most of the D&D god worship seems to be simply bribes. If you worship the god of x, you'll get power of some sort. That's always rubbed me the wrong way. A quote by a semi-famous Islamic writer has always struck a chord with me: "I will not serve God like a laborer, in expectation of my wages." I cannot see most people worshipping a D&D style god in that manner. Anyway, my point was, in my campaigns, all clerics are godless. They might think they're worshipping a god, but ultimately the power is coming from within themselves, not an external source. [/QUOTE]
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