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<blockquote data-quote="Voadam" data-source="post: 9322166" data-attributes="member: 2209"><p>In my campaign divine magic is not tied to the gods and there are multiple pantheons worshiped throughout the setting along with non-theistic religions and non-theistic divine casting traditions of clerics and druids. It is not clear what beings who are called gods actually are since a cult worshipping a false god gets as much cleric caster power as one worshipping an actual being, and there are hero worship and dragon cults and such which sort of blur the lines along with small god things like dryads and fey and angels and demons. Also there are euhemerism theories in world where one religion calls the gods of another religion just mythologized people and giants of the past and such.</p><p></p><p>That said I have had "gods" show up in person in games. In my Reign of Winter the party in the feywild saved a gnome prince from a young witch named Baba Yaga, the gnome's name was Garl. He said he and his brothers had pulled a prank on the witch and now she wanted to kill his whole family. Later when one of the PCs died the PC saw himself being dragged off to Norse Hel Garl showed up and sneaked into the scene with a scarecrow that looked like the PC, took the PC's jacket, put it on the scarecrow, and illusioned it up to look exactly like the PC. Hel took the scarecrow while Garl and the PC quietly snuck off. The PC in the mortal world stabilized missing his jacket and it was not entirely clear whether he had died and been saved or just hallucinated the whole scene as an at death's door scene.</p><p></p><p>In my Iron Gods game the party has fought an AI monster truck demigod and its spellcasting cultists. Half the party in the same game are part of a dragon cult where the dragon might either be a dragon god or a single dragon in a cave somewhere in the world.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Voadam, post: 9322166, member: 2209"] In my campaign divine magic is not tied to the gods and there are multiple pantheons worshiped throughout the setting along with non-theistic religions and non-theistic divine casting traditions of clerics and druids. It is not clear what beings who are called gods actually are since a cult worshipping a false god gets as much cleric caster power as one worshipping an actual being, and there are hero worship and dragon cults and such which sort of blur the lines along with small god things like dryads and fey and angels and demons. Also there are euhemerism theories in world where one religion calls the gods of another religion just mythologized people and giants of the past and such. That said I have had "gods" show up in person in games. In my Reign of Winter the party in the feywild saved a gnome prince from a young witch named Baba Yaga, the gnome's name was Garl. He said he and his brothers had pulled a prank on the witch and now she wanted to kill his whole family. Later when one of the PCs died the PC saw himself being dragged off to Norse Hel Garl showed up and sneaked into the scene with a scarecrow that looked like the PC, took the PC's jacket, put it on the scarecrow, and illusioned it up to look exactly like the PC. Hel took the scarecrow while Garl and the PC quietly snuck off. The PC in the mortal world stabilized missing his jacket and it was not entirely clear whether he had died and been saved or just hallucinated the whole scene as an at death's door scene. In my Iron Gods game the party has fought an AI monster truck demigod and its spellcasting cultists. Half the party in the same game are part of a dragon cult where the dragon might either be a dragon god or a single dragon in a cave somewhere in the world. [/QUOTE]
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