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<blockquote data-quote="Dausuul" data-source="post: 4130863" data-attributes="member: 58197">What I wonder is how they plan to handle the problem I always had with gods.&nbsp; It's essentially the same problem one has running a campaign in the Forgotten Realms--namely, if the PCs are on a quest to stop Evil from overrunning the world (or significant portion thereof), how come all these super-powerful good-aligned NPCs don't come and fix the problem, instead of relying on a mismatched handful of adventurers to get the job done?A common solution to this problem is one of those nonintervention deals where the gods have an agreement not to interfere in the mortal world lest it start an apocalyptic war... but those always make the gods feel a little wussy to me, and if the stakes get high enough it stops being credible (that is, if the lords of the Abyss are about to crack the world like an egg, direct divine intervention would seem to be justified regardless of the risks).Maybe the gods are physically unable to manifest directly in the material plane?&nbsp; Then if you want to kill one, you have to go to the Astral Sea and find his/her divine dominion.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Dausuul, post: 4130863, member: 58197"] What I wonder is how they plan to handle the problem I always had with gods. It's essentially the same problem one has running a campaign in the Forgotten Realms--namely, if the PCs are on a quest to stop Evil from overrunning the world (or significant portion thereof), how come all these super-powerful good-aligned NPCs don't come and fix the problem, instead of relying on a mismatched handful of adventurers to get the job done? A common solution to this problem is one of those nonintervention deals where the gods have an agreement not to interfere in the mortal world lest it start an apocalyptic war... but those always make the gods feel a little wussy to me, and if the stakes get high enough it stops being credible (that is, if the lords of the Abyss are about to crack the world like an egg, direct divine intervention would seem to be justified regardless of the risks). Maybe the gods are physically unable to manifest directly in the material plane? Then if you want to kill one, you have to go to the Astral Sea and find his/her divine dominion. [/QUOTE]

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