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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Andor" data-source="post: 4383024" data-attributes="member: 1879">True. And 4e does allow for clerics and paladins to maintain powers even if they earm their gods disfavor, nonetheless one has to believe that the gods have some influence over the actions of their followers or what's the point of having them? They might as well just say "Well there are some gods out in the astral plane for epic dungeon crawls, but they don't actually interact with the Prime in any way so there is actually no relationship between what gods exist, and what religeons exist in the game."While that would be an interesting premise, it's understood that in D&D there is a genuine divine presence, even in Eberron where the gods are very distant. Otherwise it's hard to understand why, for example, the followers of Lloth forment trouble in Drow society rather than trying to strengthen it to their own benefit. So I feel that if the actions of Melora's followers were significant enough to have been a factor in the destruction of two civilizations then they must have had the permission if not encouragement of their deity. In our world deities are sadly reluctant to tell their followers to 'knock it off' when they go too far, I like to imagine that fantasy deities pay a little more attention and intervene more readily.</blockquote>