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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dozen" data-source="post: 6006038" data-attributes="member: 6698275">Sort of, though it depends on the deity. I'm sure there are not-so-Good but still Good-aligned deities out there who are more or less pricks, at least for a while, before they settle with one or the other or carefully balance the two out(a la Dr. House). And there are several ways you can be nice to mortals as a god.As an example, when I roll up a char, I usually choose one of the Exalted gods as a patron('Exalted' as in a group of D&D gods, not the roleplaying game). They are literally as Good as you can get in their respective fields and liked worldwide(but not worshipped worldwide; Poor shmucks are all Demigods). Everything considered, they are quite the bunch. Take my favs, the siblings, Chaav and Lastai. Chaav, Smiling God of Happiness and Laughter, is stuck as a kid; you can't really expect him to act responsible, or fill in the role of a fatherly figure. He doesn't even have temples, because he rather plays around like someone a his age is supposed to instead of gathering more idiots he'd have to care about, which you can understand to some level. I play him out as a nice and simplistic child who cares for his followers, while not capable of any mayor plot or trickery. He isn't all fluffy though; He hates when people laugh at another's expense, and if that happens in his relative vicnity, there is retribution imminent, worthy of any god.Lastai is a goddess of Pleasure and Passion(yes, really). Let your imagination expand on the concept for a second. Got it? Right. She's almost the exact opposite of that.(You perv.)Still, with a background like this, and taking her respect for the 'importance of equality in all kinds of relationships'  into account, she can be anything but arrogant, or distant from her followers. I usually have her command, talk with, and simply chit-chat with mid-level worshippers on a first name basis, or at least casually; she's not all that powerful compared to them, for one, and she'd have to remember a mere handful of people, since she only has a few thousand followers at any given time. That's due to her temples being frequently mistaken for brothels and promptly thrown out of better towns if they were to operate openly(again, yes, really, and yes, it's canon). As such, she's twitchy about procastrination, prudes and people who ruin her reputation or look down on her without ever opening her prayerbook. It's a little sad, actually.</blockquote>

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