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Doe posted...

The version of Gales path where he lives is where he acknowledges his own arrogance, pride, and fallibility, and leaves the source of magic to the gods.

However, Gales analysis of the relationship between gods and men is spot on. Gods are basically parasitic and the rules of the afterlife in 5e are crazy - people who refuse to follow any gods have their souls used as mortar for the wall of faithless in Hell. basically if you dont send worship points to someone youre punished.

This is just in the Forgotten Realms setting. Other D&D settings have it different.

Forgotten Realms in particular is explicitly set up so their gods are like the ones from Greek mythology and its pantheon is pretty demystified as a result. The 'worshipper rule' is pretty much there to make the gods pay attention to the mortals and actively court/protect them.

And the thing is, in reality the criteria/ruleset for who goes into the wall is pretty lenient, like a person would actively have to deny the gods exist to end up there (people who pay lip service at the very least to some gods still have a shot at ending up at one of those afterlives).