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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Psychotic Jim" data-source="post: 1933878" data-attributes="member: 547">There are some really great ideas in this thread.  It would be sad if some other force destroyed the world but the gods got blamed, and thus they were abandonedOn another note, what if you went with Diaglo's idea (but without the d20 hatred <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />), but the people became falsely pious? The church or center of the faith became entrenched in the dogma and the high-ups in the religion intentionally used it as a method to achieve power. The people did bad things in the name of the gods they worshipped, slowly but incrementally drifting away from the gods' teachings. The worshippers or church began doing unsavory activities in the gods' names that the gods despised, twisting their messages into something else.One variant of this, if you are using the "worship = divine power" model of god-worshipper relations, might be that the worshippers with their new ideas and philosophies changed part of the essence of the god they worshipped to an altered reflection of the god, from say an evil to a good god, or a good god to an evil god. There was an extreme conflict between the good and evil halves, or the lawful and chaotic halves, of the essence of the god, and that is what destroyed the world.</blockquote>

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