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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jack7" data-source="post: 5719594" data-attributes="member: 54707">I always thought that was a good mechanic in  AD&D, but I always played it differently as a DM, because of my setting.  Neither a god nor a demon ever showed up just by name-calling alone. And I never  did it by die-roll.   Neither ever came unless they wanted to, meaning  it was a plot matter to advance the game, not a sudden shout out by mortals. And  no god ever showed up and just started attacking players just because his name  was called. Instead he would show up and engage in riddles or give useful  information or would give misinformation or distorted information. Characters  never attacked gods and gods never attacked mortals. Gods didn't consider  mortals a threat (they weren't) and my players knew gods were a threat so didn't  engage them in fights. You couldn't really kill a god, just hurt it's temporary  physical form, which would piss it off and what good is that? That's not really a fight you can win in the long run. All the god has to do is wait til you're old or vulnerable. So god fights never made sense to any of us.   Demons, if their name was called might send  something like a simulation of themselves, or an illusion of themselves, just to  screw with and cause trouble to the characters but wouldn't bother to come just  because a mortal called their name.   Demons and Devils had to actually be summoned by  complicated ritual, you had to know their real names, and it was extremely  dangerous to do that. Once my players summoned Orcus in an attempt to claim his  weapon, he escaped his circle, they got their lungs handed to them, and three  died before the summon spell could be broken and Orcus returned to his home.     Thereafter Orcus interfered with them quite a bit  but always through minions. He didn't consider them worth the effort for  personal attention. But he did like giving them hell, so to speak, through  others.   In my setting back then gods and demons and devils  just didn't normally consider individual mortals much worth messing with. So if  they messed with mortals they had their own motives at play, and didn't give  thought to what the characters wanted or didn't want, just because they wanted  it.</blockquote>

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