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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TheDelphian" data-source="post: 8017720" data-attributes="member: 7022317">I use the approach in my campaigns of the Gods are just the embodiment of a concept. while their are "evil" gods they are considered "Evil" by mortals or people not because they are.  The God of lies does not care if your lie was to deceive for money or to compliment someone so you did not hurt their feelings, a little white lie. Either fuels the god themselves. Now the severity makes a difference but a million white lies adds up to a grand scheme to con the royal jewels away from the king. It is in part why paladins and clerics take oaths very seriously and why they hold to certain codes of behavior. Some more than others.I also pretty much ignore alignment letting players use it as much as they like but not something I even consider. Some use it to help define their character and guide their actions but Lawful could mean the same to them as the word civilized does to me. It is a convenient label.Now I do use the concept of chaotic, evil, good etc when it comes to extraplanar beings. Devils, demons etc are inherent forces of their specific alignments as much as devas, angels etc are as well. They are expressions of that or the embodiment of their alignment but anyone beyond that orcs, humans etc are just folk raised in a certain way with some racial (or ancestry or whatever it will be called now days) tendency to certain ways. Orcs tend to be violent inherently in my world. Not good or bad just violent and brutish. Most civilized folk see them as evil though. The gods interact with clerics or other divine caster almost more as acts of faith or the ability for a person to draw on that focal point that is a god not because a god wants or wills it to be. The Gods don't have agendas so to speak so they don't have schemes or plans or any of that they are GODS beyond such mortal affairs. Mortals however have all those things. Demons, devils, devas angels all have those things. It seems to work pretty well for me. YMMV.</blockquote>

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