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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Andor" data-source="post: 6350866" data-attributes="member: 1879">Oh sure, in the Realms. The Realms kind of remind me of the scene in one of the Discworld books where the philosophers were proclaiming how there were no gods, but first making sure that they were picking a distant god because they were getting sick of the lightning bolts. In Eberron on the other hand proof of divine forces is harder to come by. In Athas it's impossible to come by. D&D does not have a single default assumption about the prevelance of divine intervention. Nor does fantasy fiction. in the Chalion books by Lois BuJold the Gods grant everyone the funary miracle, but unless you're a Saint or Warlock or Shaman you're not going to have much to do with the gods in your daily life. In fact in that series there is a major religious schism because one faction does not accept the Divinity of one of the gods and reject his worship. In the LotR series God (Eru, the One) is outside the universe entirely and does not interfere, the Maiar who fulfill the offices that most D&D games whould fill with Gods are not Gods and would tell you so. But they are immortal, powerful and answer prayers so....</blockquote>