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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Voranzovin" data-source="post: 8751214" data-attributes="member: 7020495">I think the implications of this are interesting, particularly in my world. Conventionally, gods have an inherent alignment, while humanoids have a very mutable one. I'm playing with inverting this: humanoids still have a mutable alignment, which is descriptive rather then prescriptive, but gods do not have a specific alignment--they have every alignment. Pelor is a god of light and agriculture, the embodiment of the nurturing rays of the sun. He's also the harsh god of the desert lands, who's cruel gaze roasts men alive. Beings so vast and unknowable cannot be bound to a morality comprehensible to mortals.That's why Clerics engage in so much ritual and tradition, fixing their relationship to their god and their use of divine magic into patterns established in antiquity (such as "spells"): that's the only safe way to interact with the divine.People don't pray for divine intercession like this, even in life-or-death situations. It's not because they don't think the gods will answer; it's because they're afraid they will.If a PC actually tried to do this, I would happy grant their request with no roll--and then try to figure out how the consequences would get them into even deeper hot water.</blockquote>