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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jgsugden" data-source="post: 6350788" data-attributes="member: 2629">There are no mechanics we've seen that prevent a character that does not believe in Gods or is not sure they really exist.As for there being a character that thinks that the beings normally referenced as 'Gods' are just powerful outsiders and not truly Gods, that just comes down to a matter of definition.  The PC would be objecting to the label, not the existence of the entity - which is not really atheism or agnosticism.  An atheist in the Forgotton Realms might think clerics are wizards and that their power comes from the world, not from the deities they claim exist.  In the Forgotten Realms, they'd be wrong, but they could exist.  An agnostic, similarly, would be unsure if the deities exist or not.  A PC that thinks that these powerful outsiders exist, but that they were not what they claim to be - and were not worthy of prayer - would be an interesting PC, but I would not call them an atheist or an agnostic.  Many villians in the lore of the WotC RPGs have had similar views... mostly villians that aspired to be as powerful as the Gods... Vecna.</blockquote>