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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Bagpuss" data-source="post: 1655597" data-attributes="member: 3987">Any PC is likely to follow one god or another in a fantasy campaign so while Evil God X, might want to kill the PC before he gets close to becoming a god, Good God Y would protect him in the hopes of having the PC as an ally.Perhapss in the past Gods routinely killed heros, and anti-heros but it most likely lead to the near destruction of the world. Since then they have had a sort of Cold War stand-off when it came to direct meddling in the mortal world. Hence they have used their champions and minions to fight it out on the Prime Material Plane.No Uber-God is needed to enforce this just the knowledge of mutually assured destruction if all their worshipers get killed in a tit-for-tat smiting. Of course occasionally they will bend or even break this gentleman's agreement, especially as the players get more powerful.Also don't forget in a fantasy setting gods are rarely all powerful, or omnipresent or omnisentient, so it could be the god was looking the other way. The passage of a human life could be but a blink of an eye to a god who lives for a near infiniate amount of time, blink and you miss it.</blockquote>