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<blockquote data-quote="durin" data-source="post: 1460893" data-attributes="member: 17821"><p>The thing that troubles me about belief/worship=power is a paradox similar to the chicken and the egg...</p><p></p><p>Gods need to people to worship them in order to give them power.</p><p>People need Gods to create the world and the people themselves.</p><p>So which came first? <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f615.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":confused:" title="Confused :confused:" data-smilie="5"data-shortname=":confused:" /></p><p></p><p>In so much as my opinion matters, belief/worship=power is short-sighted. <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/nervous.png" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":heh:" title="Nervous Laugh :heh:" data-shortname=":heh:" /></p><p></p><p>I prefer the explanation that the Gods created the world, set certain things in motion (such as their respective portfolios) and not sit back and watch their handiwork in action. When a particular worshipper pleases them, they lend power.</p><p></p><p>This business about worshipper feeding portfolios also has a major flaw. (In addition to the whole belief/worship=power paradox above.) Good gods and evil gods sometimes share portfolios/domains. So, for example, when a good dwarf makes a mightly hall and bolsters the earth portfolio/domain said system would give power both to the good dwarven/mountain god he worships as well as the evil goblin/tunnel god of his enemies. Knowing this would paralize just about any cleric with any Wisdom at all. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f631.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":eek:" title="Eek! :eek:" data-smilie="9"data-shortname=":eek:" /></p><p></p><p>On another note ... I wonder how many of our homebrew divinity and religion systems reflect our own true feelings about divinity and religion?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="durin, post: 1460893, member: 17821"] The thing that troubles me about belief/worship=power is a paradox similar to the chicken and the egg... Gods need to people to worship them in order to give them power. People need Gods to create the world and the people themselves. So which came first? :confused: In so much as my opinion matters, belief/worship=power is short-sighted. :heh: I prefer the explanation that the Gods created the world, set certain things in motion (such as their respective portfolios) and not sit back and watch their handiwork in action. When a particular worshipper pleases them, they lend power. This business about worshipper feeding portfolios also has a major flaw. (In addition to the whole belief/worship=power paradox above.) Good gods and evil gods sometimes share portfolios/domains. So, for example, when a good dwarf makes a mightly hall and bolsters the earth portfolio/domain said system would give power both to the good dwarven/mountain god he worships as well as the evil goblin/tunnel god of his enemies. Knowing this would paralize just about any cleric with any Wisdom at all. :eek: On another note ... I wonder how many of our homebrew divinity and religion systems reflect our own true feelings about divinity and religion? [/QUOTE]
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