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Why all the fuss about who or what is/isn't a god?
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<blockquote data-quote="Davelozzi" data-source="post: 2017288" data-attributes="member: 771"><p>A comment in the <a href="http://www.enworld.org/showthread.php?t=112905" target="_blank"><em>Against the Cult of the Reptile God</em> thread</a> got me thinking...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>This seems to come up a lot, whether or not various creatures are really gods, and whether or not they can grant spells. Most often, the talk is about Demon Princes or Archdevils, though not always (Sorceror Kings from Dark Sun, for example). At any rate, I wonder why people (including the folks at TSR/WotC) seem to be so hung up on this. As for the companies, I imagine that this is just one of the last holdovers from the poltically correct policies of the TSR in the 2e years. You know, just their way of indicating that they're not promoting demons and devils as objects of worship. </p><p></p><p>In my game, if I want an evil priest to worship demons or devils, I just do it. I have no problem with them granting spells. To translate into game terms (albiet ones that I don't bother with anyway), it makes not difference to me whether or not this or that entity has Divine Rank 1+, Divine Rank 0, or has no Divine Rank at all. </p><p></p><p>So why all the fuss, both among the publishers of the game and the fans? I'm just curious.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Davelozzi, post: 2017288, member: 771"] A comment in the [url=http://www.enworld.org/showthread.php?t=112905][i]Against the Cult of the Reptile God[/i] thread[/url] got me thinking... This seems to come up a lot, whether or not various creatures are really gods, and whether or not they can grant spells. Most often, the talk is about Demon Princes or Archdevils, though not always (Sorceror Kings from Dark Sun, for example). At any rate, I wonder why people (including the folks at TSR/WotC) seem to be so hung up on this. As for the companies, I imagine that this is just one of the last holdovers from the poltically correct policies of the TSR in the 2e years. You know, just their way of indicating that they're not promoting demons and devils as objects of worship. In my game, if I want an evil priest to worship demons or devils, I just do it. I have no problem with them granting spells. To translate into game terms (albiet ones that I don't bother with anyway), it makes not difference to me whether or not this or that entity has Divine Rank 1+, Divine Rank 0, or has no Divine Rank at all. So why all the fuss, both among the publishers of the game and the fans? I'm just curious. [/QUOTE]
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