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Message: <blockquote data-quote="the Jester" data-source="post: 5260287" data-attributes="member: 1210">Absolutely- but by manipulating things from behind the scenes. If you're talking about actual direct intervention- like, the god itself shows up- that is pretty darn rare imc. Most of the traditional gods are abstract creations of faith; it would take tremendous energy to physically manifest on the material plane.On the other hand, there is a group of more physical deities that has "crossed over" into my world, and in doing so have shaken things up- they are considerably more likely to take a direct active hand in things.That said, since my new campaign world started in about, oh, '93 or thereabouts, I've had the following incidents that might be termed "direct deity involvement" (not counting archfiends, dragons, elemental princes or other entities that style themselves as gods but aren't the traditional deity): 1. A pc became the Jesus-figure of his religion (2e; psionicist later dual-classed to cleric). He didn't have any super god powers or anything, just a normal pc. (This whole thing started when he was 2nd-3rd level.)2. A group of pcs "crossed over" into the world that the more physical deities I mentioned above were in and met a couple of them before being tricked into bringing them back. (High level 2e pcs.)3. Those pcs met some imprisoned gods and persuaded their captor to release them. (Same pcs as 2; same plot line; convoluted tale!)4. A later group of epic pcs met with the interloper gods to get their help in tearing down the forces of Law. (A dozen sessions or so before the finale of my 3e epic game.)5. At the finale, the biggest god on the block went ahead and spent all that energy to physically manifest and try a last desperate attempt to triumph over the forces of Chaos (and our heroes), and one of the interloper gods appeared to fight him. The pcs (level 35-38) fled a couple of rounds later; there was just too much energy being thrown around.This is over the course of just under 900 sessions.5.</blockquote>

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