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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Crimson Longinus" data-source="post: 9851889" data-attributes="member: 7025508">Gods that are just basically very powerful people, are not interesting to me. They seem metaphysically needless, and have same issues (except magnified) than having a loads of very powerful NPCs; that is they boss the PCs around and logically should actually sort most things out. making the PC heroics unnecessary.My current world Artra is very animistic, the various gods and spirits are integral part of the world and basically they are making the world to function and exist. Mostly this just happens in the background, beyond the perception of the mortals, but sometimes these spirits interact with the people. This also means that they are really not people as we would understand it. They are conscious and have personalities, but their desires and goals are not like ours.  Their main focus is performing their specific role in making the world work. For example Belet Ummur, the Shepherd of the Dead is making sure that things die and that the souls are properly escorted to the afterlife, and from there recycled to the potential reincarnation. They may help people who pray to them (mainly via clerics and shamans,) but they are not going to directly interfere in mortal matters. There are two historical exceptions to this, and both resulted a major civilisation ending cataclysm.</blockquote>