I thought it was clear I wasn ' t comparing the two . There ' s obviously a different level of severity between them . My point seems to have reached most who read it , thankfully . <| sep |>' The Men Who Have Made The Empire ', by George Griffith , 18979 . It ' s full of uncritical , swashbuckling , jingoistic , racist , militarist , proimperial twaddle . But it ' s a cracking read if you want to know how the imperialists of the late Victorian age wanted to see and to portray the empire . You can get it on archive . org <| sep |> This is a rather deep question because I think it ' s completely different from anything we ' ve ever experienced . On earth , the primary argument in regards to gods is which ones exists and how you can convince someone of that . In contrast , the main contention in DnD isnt do gods exists ? But rather , are they worth worshipping ? Consider first that gods in DnD are less like the main dieties we think of . As a Christian , im sure you would define God as having a personality , but He ' s certainly not a person in a way you and I would understand . That is to say that God has many attributes similar to a human , but he ' s also so much more than that . In DnD , that isn ' t the case . DnD dieties are really just people with insane power and unshakable convictions to an ideal . There ' s no real difference in terms of humanity between them and normal people . So the argument becomes more about who is worthy of worship , because remember in the DnD world the Good Guys lose all the time . Why would you worship Tyr if you lived in a horrible despotism run by some demons or hobgoblins ? Would a god of Justice seem worth dedicating yourself to if you ' d never experienced real justice ? Anyhow , that ' s how I look at it .