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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Aldarc" data-source="post: 7218408" data-attributes="member: 5142">Book of the Righteous was up and by far one of the best 3rd party books to come out under the OGL during the 3.X era. It serves as an excellent plug-n-play mythology and pantheon for a given world. But it also serves as an excellent tool for creating your own set of deities and churches. BotR excels at showcasing the interrelation between pantheon and cultus. There is a sense of lineage and family between the deities. The deities have their own legends, stories, and myths. They have servants, saints, sacred animals, holidays, etc. They have cults, orders, hierarchies, and schisms. In regards to the plethora of "good" deities in comparison with "evil" deities, I found that (1) a breath of fresh air, and (2) more compelling in terms of socio-religious verisimilitude. Evil deities who twirl their mustaches do tend to be comparatively rare in real world religions, though deities who are massive pricks are often par for the course no matter your pantheon (e.g. Assyrian, West Semitic, Egyptian, Hellenistic, Roman, Norse, etc.). But most cultures generally develop a pantheon of deities who are regarded as worth worshipping, because civilization and mortal lives are dependent on their favor and powers. To that end, BotR gives you a pantheon that the vast bulk of a world's populace actually would want to venerate. Morally good, morally neutral, and morally evil people will all be venerating a "good" deity from their own idiosyncratic understanding of the deity, regardless of the deity's alignment.</blockquote>

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