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<blockquote data-quote="Bedrockgames" data-source="post: 6450151" data-attributes="member: 85555">This reminds me of Victor Mordenheim in Ravenloft, who was a scientist and didn't believe in magic. In one of the novels they showed him seeing magic first hand and trying to come to terms with it as a &quot;new science&quot;. I think this very much depends on how interactive the gods themselves are with the population. But there is also wiggle room for atheism even if they do interact because one could argue they are not gods, but just really powerful people in the setting in order to maintain an atheist worldview (maybe that god is really just a powerful wizard). Still I do think it is harder in a setting with magic and gods who have a direct hand in the world for characters to be atheists. Another thing to consider, if someone simply means god as a creator of the cosmos, then you might have more room to work within. This is again treating the gods as merely powerful entities who can lord that over the setting, but one could still believe, I suppose, that the universe was not created by a god.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Bedrockgames, post: 6450151, member: 85555"] This reminds me of Victor Mordenheim in Ravenloft, who was a scientist and didn't believe in magic. In one of the novels they showed him seeing magic first hand and trying to come to terms with it as a "new science". I think this very much depends on how interactive the gods themselves are with the population. But there is also wiggle room for atheism even if they do interact because one could argue they are not gods, but just really powerful people in the setting in order to maintain an atheist worldview (maybe that god is really just a powerful wizard). Still I do think it is harder in a setting with magic and gods who have a direct hand in the world for characters to be atheists. Another thing to consider, if someone simply means god as a creator of the cosmos, then you might have more room to work within. This is again treating the gods as merely powerful entities who can lord that over the setting, but one could still believe, I suppose, that the universe was not created by a god. [/QUOTE]

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