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Message: <blockquote data-quote="FalcWP" data-source="post: 4499380" data-attributes="member: 16858">Obviously, it depends quite a bit on the sort of flavor you want for your game.I personally like Eberron's take on it - some gods may be nothing more than concepts that people believe in, and get power through their belief, while other gods are real, physical entities.  That said, I'm developing a world for my next campaign where the gods were actual, ancient beings who fought and died over the world long, long, long ago.  Emphasis on 'died' - most of the gods were slain, or grievously wounded and forced to retreat.  They blood became part of the world - it seeped into the ground, mixed in the water, and became part of the air, and through that, mortal races were able to draw on magic.  Some take this as a gift - the gods made great sacrifices so that mortals could harness magic - and worship them for it.  Others merely want to grab as much power as possible, with no cares for where it came from.  To make things more interesting:1)  There's a finite amount of magic.  This actually lets me put a sliding bar on the level of the game - earlier in history there are greater heroes because using magic is as easy as breathing.  Later heroes can't come close to what the great heroes of legend could do, because there simply isn't enough magic left in the world.  So if I want high fantasy, high level games, I go earlier; grittier, low level games, later.2)  Drawing magic from different sources can have different effects.  Still not 100% on how this will work (its a work in progress), but its easiest for someone to draw on magic granted by their creator god/parthenon (IE:  Elves can draw on Corellon, Dwarves on Moradin, and so forth).  If you draw on whatever source is handy, it may work, but there may be consequences (more likely to be story-based than rules and backfires).  Which discourages an elf from trying to draw on Gruumsh.  Rules-wise, this may allow studying of different gods/power sources (hey, atheist adventurers need magic, too), opening up new feats and rituals.3)  Remember how I said 'most' gods were slain?  That means there are some who weren't.  And there is all manner of debate as to if they're still around, who they are, and what to do with them.  Members of different, even warring groups, may want to kill or save a god, for various reasons.  You could have elves and orcs working together to save Gruumsh - the elves don't want the orcs to gain more magical power, the orcs want their god to be one of the last ones standing.  And of course, they could be opposed by elves and orcs who are trying to *kill* Gruumsh.Just something I'm toying with.</blockquote>

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