From: camelsho@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (   James A Seymour   )
Newsgroups: rec.games.frp,rec.games.frp.misc,alt.pub.dragons-inn,rec.games.frp.dnd
Subject: Creating Gods <-- How?
Date: 30 May 1992 06:15:33 -0500
Message-ID: <107o4lINNm28@matt.ksu.ksu.edu>

Please, no flames from the inn.  This initial post has
gone to 4 groups.  I am directing all followups to 
rec.games.frp and rec.games.frp.misc

There was a rather large discussion on r.g.frp this last
month about the nature of Gods.  Since school was drawing
to a close, finals left me with little time to follow
the thread.

A little background is relavent at this point:

Several years ago, I played in a group that played a game
with touches of Arduin, Arcanum, AD&D, Paldium, and a couple
of other systems.  One of the players was a wizkid that 
could wrap the GM about his finger.

Nathan, the genius (yes, he really was), could normally 
get our GM to see his way as long as the arguments were
logical and well thought out.  After tossing ideas about
a bit, the two of them settled on a scheme where a god
could be created.

God creation depended upon a great variety of things.
Included, but not limited to: number of followers, power
level of followers, magical sacrifices to this new deity,
true belief of the followers.  I think you get the point.

Anyway, Nathan was at the center of the group that created
a god of retribution/revenge.  At a certain power level,
the god broadcast news of his existance to all the world's
sentients.  (For some reason, no other deity stepped in
to prevent this.)

To make a long story short, the world ended up with 2
new gods--Nathan's and ours.  We created a god of animal
retribution who was subservient to the already existing
nature pantheon.  

This experience leads me to the question of god creation.
If gods are an ever shifting group of beings, how does
one create and/or destroy them?

I dont hold with the AD&D idea that gods are just powerful
monsters waiting for PC's to send them to oblivion.
What say the rest of yee?


james seymour/camel/camelsho@matt.ksu.ksu.edu/camlshop@cis.ksu.edu