D&D (2024) What does the new DMG say about gods?

Ares would need worshipers in D&D to move beyond being a Quasi Deity.
Does it say divine beings start out quasi and only become gods when they get enough worshipers?

In 2014 quasi could become gods with worship but I don’t think it said other gods needed worship at all.
 

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Does it say divine beings start out quasi and only become gods when they get enough worshipers?

In 2014 quasi could become gods with worship but I don’t think it said other gods needed worship at all.
By default the gods were already gods, or Quasi that eventually became gods.
 

From the Brimstone Angels Saga
OK well he also impersonates the duergar gods, who died back in the 2e era (according to the Grand History of the Realms) but "came back" after the Second Sundering ... except they're not really back.

Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden said:
Infernal Master. Asmodeus, lord of the Nine Hells, impersonates duergar gods in order to cultivate evil within the hearts of duergar who are already corrupt. He offers them divine guidance and vengeance against their enemies while urging them to acts of brutality, all the while concealing his identity.
 
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Does it say gods need worshipers and not just be born from other gods like Ares being Zeus’s son or being existing things in the world cosmology?
Does it say divine beings start out quasi and only become gods when they get enough worshipers?

In 2014 quasi could become gods with worship but I don’t think it said other gods needed worship at all.
I posted everything the DMG says about the different levels of gods earlier in the thread. EDIT: See post #57.
 
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OK well he also impersonates the duergar gods, who died back in the 2e era (according to the Grand History of the Realms) but "came back" after the Second Sundering ... except they're not really back.

That quote doesn't say the Duergar Gods and still dead, just that he impersonates them, they can still be alive for him to do that.
 




Ares would need worshipers in D&D to move beyond being a Quasi Deity.
In my game worlds, all you need to be a god is worshippers. “God” isn’t in itself a trait. A rock can be a god if it has worshippers, and they could potentially have spells if their belief is strong enough.
 


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