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<blockquote data-quote="Voadam" data-source="post: 4508955" data-attributes="member: 2209"><p>"Yeah, you call them god lasers, but they look just like the magic lasers of the wizard over there to me. Just because your magical tradition says your power comes directly from the gods does not establish that it does. Magic doesn't prove gods."</p><p></p><p>In 3e you had options for godless clerics. In 2e you had options for priests getting their powers from faith alone or from abstract forces or in Dark Sun from elemental powers or powerful sorcerer kings. All of them can call down flamestrikes. Clerical magic does not itself establish gods.</p><p></p><p>Even the appearance of an avatar or the full deity itself is not necessarily enough to remove all doubt from observers. You have some people saying Pharoh is a god, others say he is merely a powerful ruler claiming to be a living god. Mortals with magic makes this harder to establish conclusively for an observer who cannot see the rulebook or character sheet that says human or god on it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Voadam, post: 4508955, member: 2209"] "Yeah, you call them god lasers, but they look just like the magic lasers of the wizard over there to me. Just because your magical tradition says your power comes directly from the gods does not establish that it does. Magic doesn't prove gods." In 3e you had options for godless clerics. In 2e you had options for priests getting their powers from faith alone or from abstract forces or in Dark Sun from elemental powers or powerful sorcerer kings. All of them can call down flamestrikes. Clerical magic does not itself establish gods. Even the appearance of an avatar or the full deity itself is not necessarily enough to remove all doubt from observers. You have some people saying Pharoh is a god, others say he is merely a powerful ruler claiming to be a living god. Mortals with magic makes this harder to establish conclusively for an observer who cannot see the rulebook or character sheet that says human or god on it. [/QUOTE]
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