The Apple of Discord

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Originally Posted by Andrew Hackard

I disagree. I am entirely in favor of leaving some elements of a setting unquantified if the point of the story isn't for the PCs to set upon them with claw and fang. The answer to the question "What can this deity do?" is "Whatever the GM wants or needs at a given time."

I agree with this point, and particularly in relation to the Apple of Discord. But more generally, if you aren't setting things up for the PCs to have a chance of prevailing over an entity through some kind of struggle, then giving it statistics may do harm (by enabling them to do so, perhaps through design error on your part) and cannot do any good (since you can decide the outcome without looking at statistics), so at best it's wasted effort.