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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Upper_Krust" data-source="post: 1611586" data-attributes="member: 326">Hi Angcuru! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />  So does that mean you turn your back on the mythology that either gave you or inspired such beings in the first place? Isn't that an appeal to authority though?I guess the first course of action in such campaigns is to define what a god is.It does seem as though the word has been hijacked by christianity in modern culture.  'He' does have a CR, whether you wish to acknowledge it or not, or indeed define it, is another matter entirely.  What about a god going against Ao? Or the Lady of Pain? Or Io? Or Ahriman? Or Ahriman wielding the Lady of Pain while riding Io, versus Ao?  So you fully admit some campaigns might see the use for it...just not yours? Fair enough.This takes us back to the definition of what a god means.Given that D&D gods are steeped in the legends of heroic myth rather than revolve around the mantra of modern western religion. It seems that the former is more appropriate. In examining the gods of myth, we clearly see that they are (as a rule) not omniscient, nor omnipotent etc. etc.Likewise any casual research on Overgods from myth will show they are not wholly immune to godly threats, just as gods are not wholly immune to mortal antagonists.The introduction of epic mortals of course begins to blur the lines between mortal and immortal, and given that all power (even overpower) is relative, at a certain level an epic character will exceed Ao in power.</blockquote>

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