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Re: 1: I Wasted My Money!
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Originally Posted by SteelCaress
Once I got over my early adolescent fascination with god-killing, we pretty much said the gods could do anything they wanted. They created the heavens & earth and all that. Why should they be limited to anything mortal?
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Because in many myths, they are. Polytheistic gods are not, for the most part, depicted as transcendent beings; they're depicted as idealized and empowered humans, and there's a clear degree of progression in most cases from mundane man through mortal heroes, semi-mortal heroes, demigods and so on. But even such theoretically powerful entities as Odin or some of the high end Irish gods clearly can be at least concerned by a capable mortal, and for that to be true, some kind of numbers assigned to them are needed in a game where they're going to interact with mortals at all.
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From mUrielw:
"Of course, if one had played more RPGs, one would have realized that shacking up with people whose goal is "fulfill the ancient prophecies so that my dead god might rule once more over the earth, and cull those not among our cult" is rarely a good idea."
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