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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 8236020" data-attributes="member: 7006">The one thing I'd eliminate is alignments for deities.  I'm really just over the whole "Gods are like mortals with the same foibles and problems and attitudes" kind of thing.  Death is not good or evil.  It just is.  The Sea is not good or evil, it just is.  Darkness is not good or evil, it just is.  Magic is not good or evil, it just is.  So the deities the presides over these things should also not be good or evil either, at least as far as mortals see them and identify with them.The idea that a good PC has to worship a known "evil" god merely because they lord over a domain the character finds important kinda sucks in my opinion.  Likewise, there are plenty of domains that are considered "good" if for no other reason that the god that oversees it is "good", despite the fact that the domain itself has no morality attached to it whatsoever.I much prefer the idea of the gods being inscrutable to mortal eyes, and that every domain should have parts of it that would be considered good and bad.  Which would mean in turn the widening of portfolios, so that nobody who worships a god can be pointed at and screamed "EVIL!" based on nothing more than the extremely narrow portfolio that god has.  Why have a God of Murder if everyone who wishes to worship that god has to keep it a secret in order to avoid persecution by society because only evil people worship a God of Murder?  It's pointless.  That's why we have devils and demons for the whole "secret cult in the basement" kind of thing.Make deities unknowable to mortals and the portfolios they control wide enough to support lawful and chaotic, good and evil worshippers.  That's my hope and wish for the future.</blockquote>

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