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[Vaalingrade]

My fix?

The Kingpriest decided to kill everyone no on-side with him, begins a ritual to do so. Gods send signs and Soth to warn him that that ritual is not going to do what he thinks it will. The dude in the Graystone whose name I can't remember say 'hold my beer' and screws everyone by making sure it all fails.

Result works like the Sylex from the Brother's War and knocks the gods distant from the world, not helped by the fact that their former worshippers are a bit miffed at them not saving them.

Current day, the gods have been trying to make a come back, blaming each other for the Cataclysm, not realizing this is all set up for where the books ended up going anyway.

Everyone's fallible now, because sending signs was the literal least they could do, but the villany was done by the villains.

 

[Faolyn]

My fix?

The Kingpriest decided to kill everyone no on-side with him, begins a ritual to do so. Gods send signs and Soth to warn him that that ritual is not going to do what he thinks it will. The dude in the Graystone whose name I can't remember say 'hold my beer' and screws everyone by making sure it all fails.

Result works like the Sylex from the Brother's War and knocks the gods distant from the world, not helped by the fact that their former worshippers are a bit miffed at them not saving them.

Current day, the gods have been trying to make a come back, blaming each other for the Cataclysm, not realizing this is all set up for where the books ended up going anyway.

Everyone's fallible now, because sending signs was the literal least they could do, but the villany was done by the villains.

See, this works. The Kingpriest was performing a ritual that would have had evil results. Not just asking for power. The gods literally try to stop him but can't. The signs and relying on Soth may be not great but it may literally have been the best they could have done.

 

[Hussar]

Entirely apropos of nothing, I stopped reading this thread on page 7 several days ago. On page 7 is the quote from Hogfather that, ten pages later, is being requoted here on page 18.

Now that's progress.

 

[GMforPowergamers]

Entirely apropos of nothing, I stopped reading this thread on page 7 several days ago. On page 7 is the quote from Hogfather that, ten pages later, is being requoted here on page 18.

Now that's progress.

there are little progress... we do have people on side "don't fix it ain't broken" saying that what the king priest did was Evil with a capitol E. We have several possible fixes from people on side "just make some minor changes" and no one has accused anyone of being a bigot or personally evil in at least 2 pages...

 

[Umbran]

If you say homophobia is wrong, always and everywhere, then you are accepting the Natural Law doesn't allow the homophobia.

"Natural Laws" are things like gravity, the speed of light, and how atoms react to become various chemicals. They have no moral relevance - they are neither right, nor wrong, they just are. A sunny day is pleasant to us, but is not "good". A tornado is destructive, but it is not "wrong" or "evil". These things just are.

As soon as you are talking about right and wrong, you are talking about human concepts of justice, morality, or ethics. You cannot use "Natural Law" to justify behavior as moral or immoral, as natural law has no moral content.