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<blockquote data-quote="Maxperson" data-source="post: 7163198" data-attributes="member: 23751"><p>Gods are not people, and you seem to be applying the way people act and do things to the gods. In D&D, gods are forces of nature. They embody certain things and those things are most of what they care about, and in some cases all that they care about. The god of death isn't going to care if some wizard is enslaving a city. He's going to harvest the souls of those the wizard kills, though. There will be no moral quandary going on for him. The same with the goddess of magic. She isn't going to care that the wizard is enslaving the city, either, unless he's violating the magical laws and precepts she put forth while doing so. None of the gods are morally obligated to act on anything. Mortal morals do not apply to them.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>There is also the cosmic rule that doesn't allow gods to act directly to interfere with the world. If an evil god were to go to the Realms to cause destruction, the good gods would show up to stop it and that would be bad for ALL gods. They need the worshipers and can't afford to kill them and/or turn them off to following the gods. That means that they have to work through their intermediaries such as clerics, paladins, anti-paladins, etc.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Maxperson, post: 7163198, member: 23751"] Gods are not people, and you seem to be applying the way people act and do things to the gods. In D&D, gods are forces of nature. They embody certain things and those things are most of what they care about, and in some cases all that they care about. The god of death isn't going to care if some wizard is enslaving a city. He's going to harvest the souls of those the wizard kills, though. There will be no moral quandary going on for him. The same with the goddess of magic. She isn't going to care that the wizard is enslaving the city, either, unless he's violating the magical laws and precepts she put forth while doing so. None of the gods are morally obligated to act on anything. Mortal morals do not apply to them. There is also the cosmic rule that doesn't allow gods to act directly to interfere with the world. If an evil god were to go to the Realms to cause destruction, the good gods would show up to stop it and that would be bad for ALL gods. They need the worshipers and can't afford to kill them and/or turn them off to following the gods. That means that they have to work through their intermediaries such as clerics, paladins, anti-paladins, etc. [/QUOTE]
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