Setting

>Setting
>Gods are revealed to just be very powerful beings / former mortals / created by older beings / children of the primordial beings they defeated and exiled or destroyed
>They are somehow not worthy of worship anymore / the organized religions based on them want to hide the truth / this is considered scandalous by people
Why does that matters?

It doesn't really. The problem is that most people are still stuck with the jewish idea that a god is not a true God unless he have always been a god.

>setting where any gods exist
>its a KNOW fact they exist
>people still don't worship them

Isn't that what most irl gods are?

No, not really. In real life, we know nothing about gods.

Why would you not worship or bring offerings to someone who can give a good harvest, victory or a sick magic spell?

fuck what deities have become. An end-game boss. That is what power creep has done to D&D.
Goddamn it, when my dad used to play AD&D they ran up against some demigod and got BTFO in 3 rounds. These were 11-12th level characters.
Now orcus is just a CR 30 monster you can grind sidequests until you get high enough level to face him.
And then become a deity yourself.
For fuck's sake, why?
Why should your halfling monk or kender warlock or drow rogue become a deity, just because they fought a shitton of goblins?
Fuck the deities having stats. 3.5 started that shit and it was cool to look at the enormous stat block but that's it.
I have 1 deity in my setting. One that is worshipped by nearly everyone. One religion to develop. You no longer have a buffet of temples to choose from. There is one.
Oh and there are some other gods too, but they are mysterious and not well known.
And no, you cannot fight your god. You cannot speak to her.
She gives you spells, what the fuck more do you want from her?
Enough of this bullshit where a tiefling mystic theurge in a game I was in, kept "calling" a deity with some contact spell, and harassing him, and the DM was too pussy to have him destroyed by divine judgment.
Deities are just setting-clogging shit at this point.
Clean the drain. Have one deity and a few minor ones, that are not just 30 level NPCs with some special abilities.
Shit like this is why i am starting to believe we need a hostile takeover of the hobby by OSR folks. The way of things has really done down the shitter the past 5 or 10 years.

Well, in certain DnD settings if you choose not to worship a god, they stick you into a giant wall as a brick until you lose your mind, and suffer for eternity. So called Good Gods not only agree with this, but help perpetuate it.

It's not a wrong choice to not pay off the mob threatening to break your kneecaps. It's just not a very smart one.

I mean it's a bit stupid but it's not really moral either. (And the actual Wall of the Faithless is just a natural feature that the god of death failed to fix anyway, not a divine punishment)

>I worship ideals, not gods.