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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jfdlsjfd" data-source="post: 9748458" data-attributes="member: 42856">My first answer would be: why would the missionary refuse to do it in the first place? If his goal is to convince people of worshipping his god and they accept if he cast Cure Wounds and save a child, why would he miss the opportunity to do that?My second thought woulud be, you're asking whether people would worship a god that would deliberately withhold divine magic? Well, in the FR there is an example of this: Ao the overgod ignores mortal worshippers. But not answering the call of mortals does'nt mean people wouldn't objectively observe that he exists and can promote and demote gods at will and change to rules of godhood. Gravity doesn't reply to you, yet you don't disbelieve gravity, do you?And to provide a third line of thinking, if the people you're speaking of learnt about the new god, they may as well put his name in an existing temple to honor him alongside spell-granting gods, just in case he might decide to send calamities after doing his spell-granting strike. It doesn't cost anything to believe he might exist and there is only upside to propitiating him -- like the altar to the unknown gods in Athens or the invocations "to the appropriate god" without mentionning who it may be? It's not like worshipping this new god as part of your pantheon required you to change anything or stop worshipping your already-established group of gods. It's a security: if Amaunator goes away, you'll be happy to be worshipping Lathander through some kind of interpretatio graeca? (interpretatio faerunica)</blockquote>

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