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<blockquote data-quote="Turjan" data-source="post: 2748257" data-attributes="member: 3477">That's basically the plot of Terry Pratchett's &quot;Small Gods&quot;. This also includes the &quot;democratic religion&quot; part that you mentioned, but I agree that at least this aspect isn't really suited to the game. However, I like it very much to make campaign reality very different from what the people of the setting believe. Just one aspect as example: the gods in my homebrew don't know how my version of &quot;heaven&quot; looks like; they cannot go there, because death is the &quot;door ticket&quot;.This is correct. Poseidon wasn't very happy with the decision, and the mortals had to appease him. However, I was specifically answering this your sentence:I don't think this is true. There are many myths that show exactly this scenario, and not only in Greek mythology, where it is quite prevalent. Just think of the struggles of El and Baal in the myths of Ugarit. I think that the exact opposite of your sentence is true: competition between cults was seen as struggle between gods.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Turjan, post: 2748257, member: 3477"] That's basically the plot of Terry Pratchett's "Small Gods". This also includes the "democratic religion" part that you mentioned, but I agree that at least this aspect isn't really suited to the game. However, I like it very much to make campaign reality very different from what the people of the setting believe. Just one aspect as example: the gods in my homebrew don't know how my version of "heaven" looks like; they cannot go there, because death is the "door ticket". This is correct. Poseidon wasn't very happy with the decision, and the mortals had to appease him. However, I was specifically answering this your sentence:I don't think this is true. There are many myths that show exactly this scenario, and not only in Greek mythology, where it is quite prevalent. Just think of the struggles of El and Baal in the myths of Ugarit. I think that the exact opposite of your sentence is true: competition between cults was seen as struggle between gods. [/QUOTE]

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