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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Darrin Drader" data-source="post: 1684074" data-attributes="member: 7394">If I were creating a world where planes do not exist, I would have the gods inhabit areas of the world itself. The god of the barbarians might live in the center of a great mountain, the god of the sea lies at the depths of the ocean, the god of the skies lives among the clouds. You get the idea.  Make the dogma surrounding a specific god vary depending on where the worshipper is located. Different groups that worship the mountain god might have different ideas about him, including which mountain he actually lives in and what alignment he may be. To complicate matters, all of their divine spells work as long as they claim that god as their deity. This could cause bitter rivalry and hatred between different sects who worship the same god and take their religion too seriously. Make the gods themselves fairly uncaring and unlikely to participate in worldly matters. Lets face it, gods have prety good lives, no matter what they represent. They have thousands or millions of sentient beings worshipping them, servants catering to their every desire, and all the food, treasure, and other luxuries they could want. They live better than kings and their lifespan is never over. They get to surround themselves with what they want and who they want when they want it. Sounds like a pretty good gig to get, so why would they bother going to war with one another? The church of a particular god may go on a righteous crusade or an unholy bender, but the god itself simply makes a note and either rewards or punishes them in the next life.</blockquote>

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