Upgrade your account to a Community Supporter account and remove most of the site ads.
Rocket your D&D 5E and Level Up: Advanced 5E games into space! Alpha Star Magazine Is Launching... Right Now!

Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="howandwhy99" data-source="post: 5108026" data-attributes="member: 3192">Yeah, it's definitely going to be different in every game played in.  My own understanding is deities are near omniscient so their codified knowledge base in the rules is total absent other gods and their domains.  Each one knows everything occurring on the material plane and on the inner planes.  The Outer planes are those deities' domains.  I think there is D&D canon for this, generally that all deities of a domain are omniscient about it as well, but it's a matter of DM preference as you pointed out.Greater and Lesser deities, some folks use Intermediate deities (some even a point system like 1-15), are similar to the Outer Planar omniscience rule.  Essentially, Lesser deities only having mortal power within any Outer Plane, but omnipotence off beyond them.Omnipotence, the power to change any aspect of a place, off-plane tends to be restricted too. In general, it is limited to each deity's particular domain.  So a deity of nature is near omnipotent in regards to the prime material plane, while other gods may have total control only over metal or time or war or whatever is defined within the game rules.Hero-deities and Quasi-deities share in the third divine trait, immortality, but are far more limited in the other two.  Hero-deities are like Lesser deities on an Outer Plane, but without any omniscience or omnipotence on or beyond it.  Quasi-deities are like Greater deities, but only omniscient and omnipotent when upon their own private demi-plane (a state some mortals like archwizards manage).  Whether either is immortal off of these planes is more varied by DM IME.  Many use Greyhawk's nonintervention status quo condition between all the deities, sometimes using a prime material Mother Nature as the owner of prime material.  (To invade it would be to invade another deity's planar domain).  That other gods can still be called upon within it only means their domains overlap, Outer Planes not necessarily being dimensional.</blockquote>

Verification