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<blockquote data-quote="Lyxen" data-source="post: 8537506" data-attributes="member: 7032025">And this from someone who asked Mentzer about it, if you are interested: &quot;I once spoke to Frank Mentzer about this, and asked him if his change from Gods to Immortals was anything to do with the &quot;angry moms&quot; issues at TSR. He said that it wasn't, and the reason for the change was more to do with his view that any being worthy of the title &quot;God&quot; should be too powerful for stats and rules, and should be remote from the day to day campaign setting. At the start of the BECMI series he didn't deliberately take out Gods knowing he's replace them with Immortals. He hadn't even conceived of Immortals until half way through writing the Companion set and didn't have any rules for them until after he'd finished the Master set. He made the changes he did to the Basic set because he didn't want to reduce Gods/religion to a &quot;shopping list&quot; for Clerics to choose from.&quot;But that's just his opinion, which I totally respect seeing that the DDG from AD&amp;D was turned into a MM by some people, I'm just pointing out that, even in BECMI, when people wrote modules they included gods, clerics and worship, etc. because it's so much a part of the fantasy genre.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Lyxen, post: 8537506, member: 7032025"] And this from someone who asked Mentzer about it, if you are interested: "I once spoke to Frank Mentzer about this, and asked him if his change from Gods to Immortals was anything to do with the "angry moms" issues at TSR. He said that it wasn't, and the reason for the change was more to do with his view that any being worthy of the title "God" should be too powerful for stats and rules, and should be remote from the day to day campaign setting. At the start of the BECMI series he didn't deliberately take out Gods knowing he's replace them with Immortals. He hadn't even conceived of Immortals until half way through writing the Companion set and didn't have any rules for them until after he'd finished the Master set. He made the changes he did to the Basic set because he didn't want to reduce Gods/religion to a "shopping list" for Clerics to choose from." But that's just his opinion, which I totally respect seeing that the DDG from AD&D was turned into a MM by some people, I'm just pointing out that, even in BECMI, when people wrote modules they included gods, clerics and worship, etc. because it's so much a part of the fantasy genre. [/QUOTE]

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