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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Omegaxicor" data-source="post: 6076636" data-attributes="member: 95351">That's an interesting point, I had thought to have a (forgive Warhammer 40k) a Plague of Disbelief, if Clerics can get their powers/spells and such by believing in "Change" rather than any particular god then the Gods mustn't exist and belief itself gives you the power...they are wrong of course and the Cleric is simply worshipping a god without a name (I don't want to go back to Tzeentch being the god of Change but I draw a blank when trying to come up with this on the spot) and he is giving the Cleric his powers, the Cleric's powers are drawn from the deity in the same way the deity's powers are drawn from the worshippers, no worshippers, no power, no Clerics.By the time Clerics began to lose their powers Technology had advanced, Catapults and Dragons take the place of a Cleric, especially when Unicorns can heal...you see the road this leads to (extinct or angry/uncooperative Dragons and extinct Unicorns) but this is what the PCs have to deal with, whichever god they revere has lost most of his/her powers but the gods were holding something worse back and the player's job is get the gods their power back because catapults and mortals are no match for something the Gods must've united to imprison.I assume the world would be more technologically minded, engineering, alchemy, etc. but I like the idea of your world where the "institutions" have some mundane power and maybe they are like corporations and noone really believes anymore, makes the PCs job a lot harder...EDIT: yea, I don't know why I said that /facepalm but yea I mean the level technologically not the fact that EVERYONE was religious in the Dark AgesEDIT 2: After some thought I like the idea of a Magic-Tech world, more science than magic but high powered until it starts to fall apart</blockquote>

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