[Questionare] As Opposed to a Poll (Even more data colletion along with an inanely long title)

[Jürgen Hubert]

How, if the gods are very real and present in the D&D sense, not to make them overpoweringly meddlesome.

That was my problem as well. Since Urbis is at least partially about taking all the classical D&D tropes and reinventing them to make them fresh and new, I knew that I wanted a typical "fantasy pantheon". On the other hand, I also wanted to make the setting centered on the activities of people, not the machinations of all-powerful entities.

I think I have found a workable compromise. There are "Lesser Gods" with relatively few followers but who do actively involve themselves into the affairs of the world. Then there are the "Greater Gods" with lots of followers, but who are so remote from the affairs of ordinary mortals that some have speculated that they might actually be dead.

See here for the details.

[Jürgen Hubert]

im sure that it could be done properly; no clue how much expertise it would take to do it properly, but i do know it was done pretty well in American Gods.....

Well, the gods in "American Gods" were a pretty weak bunch in terms of supernatural force. And that makes also sense for gaming purposes: The more meddlesome the deities are, the weaker they should be.

Of course, this begs the question what happens when the cleric of a deity becomes more powerful than the deity itself...