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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Voadam" data-source="post: 2364217" data-attributes="member: 2209">Mostly for the social network, churches, and a church sponsored belief in the need to do so. It is dogma that you need to worship the gods so people do. This gives more power to the churches so they like that train of thought and encourage it. Many believe that belief is necessary, the gods directly intervene on big and small scales, etc. Also demons are worshipped and their clerics get spells.However in my game even clerics who dedicate themselves to one god are actually godless clerics who tap divine power and many simply just happen to believe they are getting their power from a god. Any cleric can take any character appropriate domain, not just the ones listed for the god.Gods are real beings of divine power IMC, but they are not the source of clerical divine power and rarely have any direct benefits for worshippers or intervention effects, it is rare for the gods to manifest on the world of mortals and they are not omnipresent, though many churches say they are and many people believe they are.Funny enough, God churches are predominant in the campaign and significant political forces, but there are church schisms and spies and infiltrators in churches are possibilities as well as cross alignment stuff, though official church dogma presents this as an impossibility.Most of the PCs don't know any of this and feel their clerics and paladins picked gods and therefore worship them and work with organized churches, which has been significant benefit in game as party resources and allies.</blockquote>

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