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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Shemeska" data-source="post: 4997298" data-attributes="member: 11697">If you're assuming that because their statblock (if it existed) had "deity" somewhere in it, that meant that they were automatically more powerful than something that didn't, I could see that perhaps. But as I said, and a fair number of sources touched upon, it was often very much more situational than just being a deity or not. Edit: This isn't an issue of levels or numbers, but of flavor text regarding the relative status of gods versus archfiends depending on where they come into conflict. See the history of the Blood War, Pale Night's ability to utterly flaunt Lolth's restrictions while inside of Lolth's deific domain, Levistus causing Set's deific domain to actually shrink, etc. Outside of their native planes, the situation is much reversed. A blunt reading of stats (when available) conflicts heavily with the lore on the topic, and suffice to say I don't give much consideration to stats when that sort of conflict occurs.</blockquote>