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Message: <blockquote data-quote="prosfilaes" data-source="post: 6692182" data-attributes="member: 40166">Maybe in the Forgotten Realms, but Dragonlance has a tiny number of people who can contact and travel to other planes. It's hard to tell, since they're games first and alternate universes second, but on most worlds I think the average farmer could be two hundred miles from the nearest person who has been to another plane. And in real life, I've talked to a man who saw Buddhist monks levitate, and I file that away as "unexplained, but probably false". Sure, the noble says that his court wizard has been to a plane of fire where all those evil people who start rebellions burn, but it's not exactly insane to dismiss that as propaganda, as many people have done real life examples.It's probably like the real medieval times, which seems to have had a number of atheists, even if they generally didn't run around proclaiming it.The Demiurge as known in Gnostic thought is distinctly more powerful then most D&D gods; I do not recall any D&D god stopping the spinning of the planet so their tribe could win a battle, or the Demiurge getting thrown down to the planet in corporeal form, like in the Time of Troubles. The Faerun gods, in some sense, seem more like angels or saints or really powerful mortals than real gods, the way they're subordinate to Ao and keep dying.</blockquote>