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Mayor: "We are eternally grateful to you for eliminating our giant cellar rats! As reward, please accept all we can offer: the finest pig in the village!" Party: " . . . " Bard: "I seduce th--" Party: "Shut up, bard!"

That's a really strange thing to see at a D&D table. Personally, I'd feel criminally remiss as GM (or player) if I wasn't speaking as (or listening to) all the weird non-humanoid things that could possibly hand out rumors, dreams, hints, puzzles, orders, deals, and so forth. "If it's got lips...

Obviously, But I voted mythic and classical, since regular people cavorting with gods and all that seems a good time for true superheroes to emerge, and to do so in spectacularly weird ways.

Just great. Now I've got Timberlake and Samberg singing "Click on a Box" stuck in my head.

Isn't Goodman Games' OAR#9 Caverns of Thracia still slated for release in 2025? If so, the 5e version of that is probably the 5e thing I'm most looking forward to this year.

That revenant appears to be the old "way too many belt-buckles" fad, returned to unlife.

Right. That's why I suggested a mix-n-match approach, with modifications to the myths. But clearly that's not an approach that inspires you, and that's cool. Good luck!

I think the point that some of us are making is just that a "default human pantheon" would look like a human pantheon that already historically exists in real world mythology. Such pantheons do reflect humanity because they were created by real humanity.

But they didn't even read off the license plate number. I mean, that could be anybody's gargantuan bronze Lenin head. Sheesh.

Because real world mythology was invented by actual humans, I might start by looking there. For example, among those listed in 5e, pretty much all the expected (non-monstrous) portfolios seem to be covered. Mix and match to include whatever domains you need, then change the names, symbology...

I really like the setting of A Thousand Thousand Islands and the Reach of the Roach God campaign. It's system-neutral fantasy based on south Asian mythology and folklore. The source material, writing, and illustration all make it a wonderfully evocative and unique world, at least to my experience.

That "skunk wave" combo would be particular fitting for special occasions.

Tbh, the regular media deserves blame, too, for treating ignorant opinion equal to fact and truth. In the last 30 or 40 years, they've given too much oxygen to utterly asinine ideas, and now many of those asinine ideas are normalized. And so here we are, looking forward to the 2025 we have...

(edit: oops, i didn't see that you just forked off a new thread about this, apologies!) I imagine it should be as complete as it needs to be in order to be played appropriately to its genre in the way intended by the designers. For a D&Desque game, the expectation is to be slaying monsters, so...

The pesky sharks that keep appearing in my bathtub probably agree.

Congrats! Good luck with it.

That thread's been unocked! We can talk about it over there instead of here.

And it's a much more interesting article, too, imo.

Have you considered upgrading to a 1200 baud carrier pigeon?