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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ilbranteloth" data-source="post: 6916782" data-attributes="member: 6778044">Ed Greenwood covers this a bit in Ed Greenwood Presents Elminster's Forgotten Realms and there are a lot of other reasonable answers to that question.My take has always been the delicate balance between the Deities prevents too much outright religious warfare. In addition, most campaigns have religion well in the background, rather than one of the primary driving (manipulative?) forces in society. Plus, in an polytheistic pantheon, the Deities are often manifestations of things that occur in the world. That is, there are evil things that happen in the world, and therefore there must be an evil Deity. Most won't actively worship them, but give a nod in their direction in the hopes they can avoid something bad happening. Of course, there will be groups that do worship the evil deities, but the followers of the good will do their best to prevent them from gaining too much power.Of course, one could argue that the acceptance of "adventuring parties" that slaughter monstrous humanoids and such is a sort of inquisition...</blockquote>