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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AlViking" data-source="post: 9849142" data-attributes="member: 6906980">Gods in my campaign are very active - but not necessarily active in the prime material plane.  First of all, gods have their own concerns and issues and their priorities don't always have much to do with mortals.  There's also a feedback loop, the more worshippers a specific god has the more power they have to alter the lives of mortals.  There are "lost" gods, gods that were once powerful and worshipped who now have minimal impact although a few occasionally try to make a big comeback by expending what little reservoir of power they still have.Many supernatural beings can be raised to the point of being considered a god with corresponding influence the prime material world.  At times archfey have been worshipped as gods but over time they lost more and more followers.  Those archfey are still out there doing their thing but it rarely involves the prime material except through the occasional warlock or small cult.  Meanwhile fiends can also affect the mortal world, to a certain degree by being worshipped but also by collecting souls.For the most part gods don't directly interact with the world they act through emissaries such as clerics, archons and angelic beings.  On the other hands if the gods go to war the mortal world can shake with battles being held on other planes.  So it's not that gods aren't powerful, it's that their power to affect the mortal world is a reflection of the belief of mortals that they have the power to do so.</blockquote>

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