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<blockquote data-quote="MechaTarrasque" data-source="post: 9322530" data-attributes="member: 6801226"><p>Most of the good or neutral gods in my setting have an interest in one or two backgrounds, and sometimes when the trek is taking too long, a kindly NPC, who might be the god, the god's divine servant, or a mortal follower, will give the PC's a ride (I think of it as the Clive Cussler model) with the god (or servant) in question being chosen partly by the PC's backgrounds. Some of the evil gods do as well, but most aren't interested until you are 10th level or higher.</p><p></p><p>Having the gods running around too freely makes the adventure too much about them, and not enough about the PC's, until about level 17. I refuse to confirm any story about having Lolth become smitten with an extra CN PC that the rest of the party was getting tired of, other than to say if the charisma check had come up better, he wouldn't have gotten eaten.</p><p></p><p>My players know that the PC's can pick the brains of anything that gets summoned via Planar Ally, and I find that cuts down the desire to deal with gods directly.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MechaTarrasque, post: 9322530, member: 6801226"] Most of the good or neutral gods in my setting have an interest in one or two backgrounds, and sometimes when the trek is taking too long, a kindly NPC, who might be the god, the god's divine servant, or a mortal follower, will give the PC's a ride (I think of it as the Clive Cussler model) with the god (or servant) in question being chosen partly by the PC's backgrounds. Some of the evil gods do as well, but most aren't interested until you are 10th level or higher. Having the gods running around too freely makes the adventure too much about them, and not enough about the PC's, until about level 17. I refuse to confirm any story about having Lolth become smitten with an extra CN PC that the rest of the party was getting tired of, other than to say if the charisma check had come up better, he wouldn't have gotten eaten. My players know that the PC's can pick the brains of anything that gets summoned via Planar Ally, and I find that cuts down the desire to deal with gods directly. [/QUOTE]
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