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Message: <blockquote data-quote="SpiderMonkey" data-source="post: 898687" data-attributes="member: 11385">Hello all!  One of the central themes of the campaign I've been developing is the true divinity of DnD pantheons.  If one considers them in light of Platonic conceptions of what it means to be divine (which Christians later borrowed for God), it's pretty difficult to consider them "gods" per se.  They are fallible, not omniscient, and prone to imperfection.  On this basis, it would be easy to allow for atheism.  Contrary to previous posts on the topic, many Greeks and Romans where practically atheists--read the Euthyphro for a bit of insight on this.  Socrates uses the religious paradigm to disprove popular conceptions of the gods.On the other hand, if you consider Dnd Gods as powerful spirits or entities that can give people powers in exchange for these fantastic abilities, it's natural for people to worship them *as* gods without it being necessary for them to meet Plato's rather rigorous requirements.I hope this helps or provides some sort of insight.  I tend to go off on tangents with the smallest excuse.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /></blockquote>