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Worldbuilding Assumptions: The Nature of Gods
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<blockquote data-quote="Voadam" data-source="post: 9142076" data-attributes="member: 2209"><p>I generally go with a 3e godless clerics model of gods in my D&D games where divine power is a type of magic with a lot of similarities to arcane magic with many divine casters believing their divine magic comes from gods, but actually it is just a tradition of spellcasting that taps divine magic as a power source.</p><p></p><p>I also like to have lots of pantheons so as you travel from fantasy ancient Greece to fantasy ancient Asia minor to fantasy ancient Egypt you come across different pantheons being recognized and prominent.</p><p></p><p>This means that there can be clerics of false gods or that gods could be a dragon or giant who you can meet and there will be clerics of them. They could also be transcendent beings or primal forces or hugely powerful outsiders.</p><p></p><p>So Zeus might be a personification deity of the sky, an immortal god kid of titans, or the mythologized cult of a former king that has evolved him into an Olympian in myth, or he could be a living bog standard storm giant.</p><p></p><p>Given this backdrop I have used gods directly in my game with beings called Garl Glittergold and Erastil/Stag showing up, but their exact nature was not really hard core defined.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Voadam, post: 9142076, member: 2209"] I generally go with a 3e godless clerics model of gods in my D&D games where divine power is a type of magic with a lot of similarities to arcane magic with many divine casters believing their divine magic comes from gods, but actually it is just a tradition of spellcasting that taps divine magic as a power source. I also like to have lots of pantheons so as you travel from fantasy ancient Greece to fantasy ancient Asia minor to fantasy ancient Egypt you come across different pantheons being recognized and prominent. This means that there can be clerics of false gods or that gods could be a dragon or giant who you can meet and there will be clerics of them. They could also be transcendent beings or primal forces or hugely powerful outsiders. So Zeus might be a personification deity of the sky, an immortal god kid of titans, or the mythologized cult of a former king that has evolved him into an Olympian in myth, or he could be a living bog standard storm giant. Given this backdrop I have used gods directly in my game with beings called Garl Glittergold and Erastil/Stag showing up, but their exact nature was not really hard core defined. [/QUOTE]
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