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Message: <blockquote data-quote="GM Lent" data-source="post: 8017409" data-attributes="member: 6798775">I've always been a bigger fan of the Al-Qadim (and later Eberron) approach to gods. You have a god of, say, the ocean. Some of its followers are good, some are evil. There's no definitive proof that such a god is an existing being one way or the other, so people make their choices and live with them.Weis & Hickman's Rose of the Prophet books had another interesting take, where the gods are definitively Good, Evil, Etc. but are not able to interfere directly in mortal affairs. Hence they use their servants (djinn, angels, imps, etc) to interact directly with mortals. Most mortals only even know of one or two gods (out of 21), and even scholars who know of more have a hard time weighing the value or power of gods not directly part of the tiny subset their culture venerates.Gods as big monsters who periodically just wander the planet and stir up trouble have always just seemed super juvenile to me as a concept. A kindergartener's idea of what a super powerful creature must be. With all due respect to Dragonlance, of course.</blockquote>