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Message: <blockquote data-quote="nightwyrm" data-source="post: 4807201" data-attributes="member: 75542">Why would any LG or CE people lies about things. Besides, in a normal, great wheel based planar setting demons and devils are just game terms given to CE and LE outsiders. If the gameworld uses different divine (and maybe alignment) assumptions from a normal great wheel planar structure, polytheistic game, words like demons and devils can mean other things. It all comes down to what the DM defines as a god. If being immortal and being able to respond to worshippers (whether by granting prayers or divine spells) isn't enough for a being to be viewed as a "god", then the DM must decide what is the criteria of being a "god".  In a monotheistic religion, the monotheistic deity can either do something no other beings are capable of (maybe creating the universe) and make that known to mortals or he's only capable of doing things other powerful beings can but tells his worshippers that the other beings are not worthy of worship because of some reason. Whether those reasons are real or lies may depend on the deity, but the central tenet of a monotheistic religion is that the entity being worshipped is the only one worthy of being worshipped, and one of the best ways of doing that is to deny the divinity of other powerful, spell-granting immortal entities (if they exist). As someone have said before, monotheism is not "my god is cooler than your god", that's just a normal D&D pantheon. It's "my god is the only god, and what you're worshipping is not a god."</blockquote>

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