Sadras
Legend
As I said upthread, when I talk about deities in the context of a RPG world I'm talking about beings which are actually deities - beings who anchor and integrate the greater cosmos into the lives and purposes of mortals.
Define anchor and integrate.
How does Dionysus anchor and integrate the greater cosmos into the lives and purposes of mortals?
But nothing in the stories suggests that there actually exist gods in the world, being who created mortals and their world for some purpose and who are intimately bound up in the realisation of that purpose.
Most D&D gods and even in mythology didn't create mortals and their world. This is certainly not the most commonly view definition neither is it D&D's definition. One has to query why you are giving such a narrow definition for deities.
According to the above, you're proposing Gilean of DL is not a deity at all.
(Of course, if by deity you mean being worshipped by (some) humans then the Great Old Ones are deities, in the sense that there exist cults of worshippers and so on. But in that sense a PC can be a "deity", as a PC can establish groups of worshippers.
I would imagine one of the primary criteria for one to be considered a deity, would be that one be supernatural (in the common sense of the word). Pharaohs were not supernatural despite being 'worshipped'.
EDIT: To add - Pemerton why is it you define clerics, wizards, warlocks and paladins according to D&D terminology, but when it comes to deities you seem to adopt a rather different view altogether?
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