How petty and cruel are the gods in your games?
>>96950726That's not petty that's justified
>>96950735>balding and malding
>>96950735You sound bald
>>96950726Why is god like this
>>96950825He loves His norwoods.
>>96950726My chaotic evil gods want only to destroy all matter in the universe. I wouldn't quite call it petty, but it is entirely cruel.
>>96950735t. bald
>>96950726lmaooo
>>96950735>all these repliesYou see anon, haircels can dish it but the moment you dish it back at them (by using the raw power of faith to summon bears to maul them to death) they cower. God stands with His righteous baldies.
>>96950925
>>96950925>he thinks god wants a hairless head when the Tonsure is the holiest of holy hairstyles.To the tyburn tree with you, heretic
>>96950748>>96950786>>96950909>>96950943>>96950952*kills you with bears*
>>96950726very
>>96950952>he isn't naturally tonsured due to his high T (GodTosterone) levelsngmi
>>96950726Bahahahahahahaha
>>96950726The more petty and cruel the gods are, the more like giant-sized humans they are, the better it makes the game.A thing I usually do in my games is to have a God's direct nemesis be a valid target no matter the circumstances. For instance, the God of Justice is all about righteous conduct...But when it comes to his asshole brother, the laws of war don't apply. You are 100% free to My Lai the enemy god's punk-ass worshippers. The more you kill, the happier your patron deity is. That way, you can unleash the good ol' ultraviolence and still get pats on the back.
>>96950726>gives his creations free will>shits on them when they employ it>doesn't even have the excuse of watching to see how it plays out, as he already knows the futureAny petty or cruel gods aren't really gods, they're just pretenders.
>>96953392Have we not considered that it's really, really funny?
>>96953406So were the wedgies those jocks gave you (to them (not (You)))
>>96950895>achieving gnosis>evilDemiurge pls...
>>96950825They were not actually kids, the history is a bit more complex than that... but still is really funny.
>>96950726This is so weird.
>>96950726Incredibly petty and cruel, but they're constantly checking one another and can't afford to be distracted. Say, if the god of meat diverts their attention to send bears after some dudes who prepared steaks in a blasphemous way, it would leave an opening for the god of famine to toss a meteor at the meat god's main temple in the meanwhile.
>>96950961and you sir are extremely bald
If Zeus or Odin send two bears to maul children (and rest assured, they did much worse things in their mythologies) everyone would scream about how awesome paganism is and how cucked Christianity is
>>96954201christians would use an example of Odin sending bears to maul children who mocked his champion as bald as an example of pagan savagery at best and call it satanic sorcery perverting nature at worst
>>96954201>they did much worse things in their mythologiesLying Semitic.>how cucked Christianity isIt is. Imagine worshipping a deranged alien storm deity dreamt up by inbred schizophrenic tribal neurotics from the desert.
>>96950726Unrelated but what makes this picture so much better is that THEY COULD and KNEW how to draw better. They just chose not to because they were so full of their own righteousness that they thought making anything pretty would be a sin.
>>96950726Look, asking the Lord to "help me bear their insolent mockey" is ambiguous and easily misunderstood.
>>96950726hairtards really haven't recovered from this one, have they?
>>96954201Zeus would probably think that's hilarious and join in on bullying the bald man.Then ask the children who their mothers is and go check her out.
>>96950726This one is still laughing
>>96950735>that's justifiedI can see your bald spot despite the kippah.
>>96950952tonsure is literally just styling your bald spot
>>96961002Hey, if you are getting punished anyways, might as well go down swinging.
>>96954201>if they DID do this(they didn’t)…. Kay
>>96950726Most monster races were created when all the Chaotic gods cursed each others followers.
>>96950735Your bald is showing
I’m tired of pretending that God isn’t a bigger asshole than Satan. Or rather he has the capacity to be.
>>96963452...lick it...
varies by god.The god of farms, roads, and wine? cool guy. The goddess of storms and music? rather petty. God of torture and slavery? huuuuge dickhead
>>96965915Yes, that's exactly what the bible says I want you to think.
>>96968045Christians get angry when I point out how demonic God is, tho.
>>96950726The major deities all, without exception, have a vested interest in saving mortals. Damnation is the default end-state of immortal souls because they essentially fall into a giant soul-pit where emotions and memories all blend together into a schizophrenic mass. It's not a punishment, that's just what happens to souls naturally.The gods all see this as a huge htreat. If that gigantic tortured soul-ocean ever breaks containment it would be trouble. So, their efforts to save humanity are both self-serving and in some cases also motivated by benevolence. The problem being that the gods have finite power, they can only pluck souls from the cascade into Hell if they have a certain level of resonance with what they are and represent. The gods don't represent things innately, they develop their reputation for those things because the resonance they have happens to coincide with that. God of Harvest? Doesn't actually know what harvests are, has never seen wheat, is a god. But for whatever reason humans cultivating wheat makes them resonate to him, he visibly favors the ones who resonate to encourage it, they spread ideas of the harvest god. Etc. This always turns into a game of chinese whispers though because the gods generally can't actually communicate information well, they can only signal vibes. Holy wars and inquisitions and such sometimes serve an actual purpose, but just as often are miscommunications or failures to understand what is going on. Moreover the gods are not omniscient and many cannot even "see" the mortal realm clearly, relying on incomplete information. Maybe the god can only "see" when something valuable breaks, so vibes to its worshippers that if they want to pray they need to smash something precious first. Maybe they can only "see" through someone's eyes if they've never had sex, so it encourages celibacy.The gods also mostly believe they're the only god and few have any way of communicating with or observing each other.
>>96950735Go on up, you baldhead.
>>96950726That bitch can call up god to off some children like an insecure mafioso, but can't get god to miracle up some hair?
>96954201>every other faith falls under the umbrella slur "paganism"Back at you, desert cultist.
>>96969447The common belief in-setting is that the gods are at war with each other for worshippers, because worshippers give the gods power. This is the exact opposite of the truth, if it weren't for humanity and the Hell their souls create the gods would be solipsistic jellyfish floating around in their private dimensions having a great time, but they can't do that with a giant screaming abyss of damned souls growing ever larger in the background. So the gods are not petty at all (pettiness is a purely human attribute, requires social instincts) but things they do may SEEM petty. They are trying to solve a mechanistic problem the best way they can--if you can only save people who do/don't do X thing, you are going to tell people to do/not to do X thing even if it's horrific or pointless or serves no other function.On the mortal side, powerful magic users (the Party) have been trying to backtrace these divine forces on the suspicion that there are no gods, just strange metaphysical laws. Imagine their surprise when they reach the end and encounter the Jellyfish God of Freckles, Nofap and Cooking and he starts screaming because he's never seen a physical object before.Suffice to say this has been a great campaign.
>>96969518Actually the Levant is mostly coniferous and sclerophyllic woodlands and garrigues.
>>96950726While this is based, sadly the tale is a mistranslation. The idea of it being "children" comes from the Hebrew word for unmarried men, Naharim, and Khtanim, which means "small." What it actually means is "low status men." So the actual story is that a gang of low-status Jewish youths (a mob of ruffians) told a prophet to fuck off and made fun of him and were then mauled by bears for violating the covenant. This is an understandable mistake since the whole thing was translated into Greek first, then the Vulgate in Latin, and then later into whichever language you speak (German in the case of the artist) and some of the nuance is lost along the way.
>>96969636That's only SLIGHTLY okay'er.You still have some insecure bald warlock calling down grim and miserable death on a bunch of people who did nothing terribly wrong. Are you the kind of person that'd just go around stabbing every homeless bum that shouts at you from across the street if not for consequence? You need Jesus.
The current batch of them don't pay humanity any special mind, but their actions to remake the world that got turbo fucked by the prior batch being the root cause of the ragnarok-esq event that birthed them, are mostly horrifically dangerous/ detrimental to what humans survived everything going to shit. The earliest of the new gods, want to finish the job on humanity cause they're a remnant of the old god's rule, which caused the world to become a hellscape due to abusing their divine authority and shit. One of them, who is a congealed mass of blood, armor and weapons that thinks they were a mortal warrior who obtained divinity by being the last survivor of the final battle where all the old war, battle and similar gods looked at all the shit that was happening and went "Eh, why not go out with a bang" and stage dived into the legions of god eating monsters. They aren't, but rather the newborn god of strife/ defiance that merely absorbed the memories of every man who died in that doomed last stand and got gaslit into think they were once a human. This god actually tries to protect humanity from all the bullshit, which either draws the ire or confusion of the other new gods, who don't understand why this weirdo doesn't just make his own, new breed of worshippers rather than throwing an autistic fit whenever they accidentally catch a few of his "flock" in their renovation plans.The gods who want humanity gone especially hate the guy cause he, due to the nature of his "birth" is one of the strongest, and could probably bring some stability to the world, if he actively hunted the things that ate the old gods rather than messing around with the puny mortals who keep dying the moment he takes his eyes off of him
>>96969648They did not just make fun of him, they attempted to drive the prophet Elisha off from the City of Bethel (modern Beitin) which is notorious for being the place where Jews did the Golden Calf heresy two seperate times. In the Old Testament, Jews who violate the covenant always get it really hard.Also he didn't send the bears, he just cursed them generically, God then sent bears because it's a 2/2 for 2 and that's enough to kill an Angry Mob.
>>96960799fpbp
>>96969692>"They attempted to drive a prophet out!">"THEY CALLED HIM BALDY, DON'T YOU UNDERSTAND HOW TERRIFYING THAT IS!?"I take it back. you don't need Jesus, you need a spine.
>>96950726The more powerful the god, the more distant it is.As devoid of malice as it is compassion, such a god is more a force of nature than someone to be communictaed with, directly. Intermediaries such as saints/angels et.c. are needed.Lesser gods are more meddlesome and petty. And so are their cultists.
>>96950735
You ALL need Jesus
>>96950726I could totally see some of the Forgotten Realms deities being that petty. Umberlee, Lolth... or even Malar (but the bears would also maul the prophet because, well, Malar).
>>96971181The namecalling wasn't the issue, it was a gang of men shouting at the prophet to get out--that they called him bald was not the issue.
>>96971755Actually I need lolth
