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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Gilladian" data-source="post: 6424860" data-attributes="member: 2093">As far as "mini me's" running around doing things - I'm a very non-power person myself, so I would probably be just hiding and clinging to the chance to lead some minimal life without being trampled on. However, if I were a PC, who had the sense that I could "DO" something, I'd join the forces of good. I'd turn my back on the evil power stones (once I knew what they did to people's minds) and try to found a secret place of safety and shelter, hoping that someday there would be a way to break the cycle of evil. I can sort of empathize with those who would "damn" the gods and turn their back on them, if the gods are indifferent and far removed; having a city or groups within several cities that are a-religious and actively denounce the worship of the gods could be interesting politically and socially. Okay, I think I'll work things up this way: there are six beast-type gods, each representing some themes/domains/elements and will be a force of either law or chaos. For example the dragon might represent  air, strength and fate, and is lawful; the sphinx might represent earth, cunning and birth and also be lawful; the phoenix could be fire, charisma and the spirit or soul and be chaotic, and so on... there might even be multiple names/faces for each of these gods, and only the most philosophic or most wise would perceive that they are the same being...Only ONE of these gods would be truly insane (by human standards), chaotic, and attempting, for whatever reason of his/her own, to destroy the world. I need to give the world a name....Each god would have a mass of followers - some would be good, some evil, but always either lawful or chaotic. So the dragon who is lawful would have both "angels" and "devils" who followed him and are lawful in their methods. But the phoenix, who is chaotic, would have good and evil followers who are all acting in chaos, without any seeming structure or pattern. And one of the chaotic gods is the "true bad guy". I will have to play around with this, and it may all change still, but I'm starting to get comfortable with what I'm seeing.</blockquote>

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