[Lawtan]

Ah, most excellent.

The Advent (Antagonistic God of Roleplaying Adventures) - Penultima

In a popular mod storyline set place in the realm of Penultima, a deity makes deals with potential heroes to give them heightened glory. Said deity has an economy, creating a product in adventure and selling epics. It created a kid demigod known as Khaos, and put magic at the core of Penultima for the contracted "heroes" to defeat.

Centuries later, the heroes were forgotten, but the Advent sought new epics. Come in your player character from another land - an excellent target for the Advent to make into a great hero. At first, the Advent provides things like the ability to resurrect D&D style, but gradually the greater threats appear. The Heroes, stripped of their memories (their souls bound to Advent as tools or tropes for future epics) attack the kingdom and take the crown.

Your character and companions (a Scythe-spirit enslaved to a demon, a kleptomaniac thrillseeking rogue, a social justice half-dragon agnostic paladin, a retired barbarian grandma, a master wizard girl, and Khaos) are commisioned by the kingdom to fight the forces of this deity, and after all your companions are mindzapped too, you have to fight the god to return the world to the mundane life.

The idea of a God as metaphor for the exploitative work in the name of adventure and pleasure is something that has been an inspiration, and the mix of humor and cold declarations makes the Advent as human as most businessmen and political folk who have the view of "ends justify the means".