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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jgbrowning" data-source="post: 485138" data-attributes="member: 5724">i view all gods as being active gods, allowing commune etc...  i think that's the default in DnD.that being said i don't think the gods have the ability to pre-emptively warn of potential dificulties within a church.  a fe reasons.1. the god's power is spread out among an almost limitless number of worlds and worshippers.  i think even given their great abilites they would not be to concerned if one of their churches fell to schism.  that is unless it was a very special church... ie. the last church of the good god in a world over run by evil...  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />2. in your example a LG god would, IMHO, continually challange his worshippers. I think there are enough RL comparisons between that idea that its not too far fetched.  the old concept of testing...3. I don't think when most people use divination spells they're actually speaking with their god.  their talking to the second sub-level class D part-time messanger of the god.  Actually speaking with a god i'd have to consider a once in a lifetime affair at best. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> The various sub-alterns or avatars wouldn't have the full abilities of the god.  I kinda view it as when someone asks my wife about what i'd think about something.. most of the time, 95% or so, she's dead on about how i'd respond, but there are differences.  And that's about simple matters when compared to the complexity involved in something like Piratecats scenerio.4. And my main point about how corruption would occured, would almost be inevitable, is that gods offer powers to more than one alignment so the must be ok with it.  NG and LN are both viewed as just as appropriate for the worshipper of a LG god.  Personally, i think that's bunk, but the game's take is different and i follow it because, well to be honest, its never been that important to me to house-rule. joe b.</blockquote>

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