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Message: <blockquote data-quote="LordOfTheWaffleHouse" data-source="post: 9515829" data-attributes="member: 7044860">No, that's me Waffling on my typing from splitting my attention too much between too many things. It was the Greeks who used the Trojan Horse to sac the city of Troy. I'm highly intelligent, I swear.I think the issue most are concerned about though are the players who do "disruptive things" but call them "chaotic and stupid for the lulz" and fall back on the excuse that "it's what my character would do". I have DEFINETLY seen more of those players in more recent years than at anytime prior. I try to discourage that kind of thing at my table, if only for the sake of role play. I view it kind of like the concept of atheism in the settings, the Gods are established aspects of the universe. In real life there is no physical, tangible evidence that the Christian/Norse/Muslim Deity, or ghosts, monsters, or demons, are real. We have no idea what the afterlife is like, if there even is one, as there is no way to communicate directly with any deity that might exist, no way to test or measure it, and they most definitely don't send down avatars and divine signs or any of the major acts you see in any campaign setting. All religions on earth are a matter of faith, so being an atheist isn't that particularly far fetched of an idea. In ANY campaign setting though, it's absolutely only something a madman would do, because the Gods routinely make their presence VERY known to the people of the world through a variety of methods, whether it's sending down an occasional avatar to do something, empowering their clerics to cast spells, or literally throwing a mountain at the heretic city after warning the main heretic to stop being a moron (cough cough Dragonlance cough). There are those who DOUBT the Gods power, because Deities CAN die in most of these settings, though there is no question that they are very, VERY real. If you are an Atheist or Devout <insert religion here> IRL, no one really bats an eyelash. If you are an atheist in the Realms, everyone assumes you are touched in the head and probably staying more than 60 feet away from you to avoid collateral damage from any smiting that may occur.</blockquote>

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