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<blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 8019175" data-attributes="member: 7006"><p>I personally agree that if there was to be these lists of gods that people actively worship... there should be a list of things that these gods oversee that would make sense for people to care about and want a blessing for. And if that is the case... should the god really be assigned an alignment for it?</p><p></p><p>So for instance... I find it odd that there would be a god "in charge" of wrath, fury, and destruction. Because who exactly would feel the need to pray to or ask a blessing from this deity, and when would that happen? As it stands now... since Orcs in D&D have had this traditional idea that they are just bloodthirsty and crazed warriors who care for nothing but destroying everything in their path, then sure having Gruumsh as their patron deity would make sense. But if Orcs are not meant to be JUST that... then there seems to me to be something else that Gruumsh should have domain over. To give people a reason to worship Gruumsh when not furiously and wrathfully destroying things.</p><p></p><p>I honestly think this is where having too many gods does the entire pantheon a disservice. Because we end up pigeon-holing these deities into these extremely tight little domains in order to have them not step on each other's toes... but then it begs the question of how often is it necessary to pray to one of these people? You've got most of society praying to Oghma for his knowledge and intellect, but then this small subset of people over here that decide to light a candle to Deneir when they are writing stuff down? What's wrong with just praying to Oghma when writing stuff down? Why do we need another deity to cover it? What's gained by that?</p><p></p><p>And on that note... how come Deneir is Neutral Good? Why is writing stuff seen as purely a good thing? There's a crapton of stuff you write down that are completely neutral or even downright hurtful. So how come this god is considered a Neutral Good deity? This is the kind of query I've been wondering about over in the "Are Evil Gods Necessary?" thread... where I've been partially questioning as to whether or not divine gods should even have alignments.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DEFCON 1, post: 8019175, member: 7006"] I personally agree that if there was to be these lists of gods that people actively worship... there should be a list of things that these gods oversee that would make sense for people to care about and want a blessing for. And if that is the case... should the god really be assigned an alignment for it? So for instance... I find it odd that there would be a god "in charge" of wrath, fury, and destruction. Because who exactly would feel the need to pray to or ask a blessing from this deity, and when would that happen? As it stands now... since Orcs in D&D have had this traditional idea that they are just bloodthirsty and crazed warriors who care for nothing but destroying everything in their path, then sure having Gruumsh as their patron deity would make sense. But if Orcs are not meant to be JUST that... then there seems to me to be something else that Gruumsh should have domain over. To give people a reason to worship Gruumsh when not furiously and wrathfully destroying things. I honestly think this is where having too many gods does the entire pantheon a disservice. Because we end up pigeon-holing these deities into these extremely tight little domains in order to have them not step on each other's toes... but then it begs the question of how often is it necessary to pray to one of these people? You've got most of society praying to Oghma for his knowledge and intellect, but then this small subset of people over here that decide to light a candle to Deneir when they are writing stuff down? What's wrong with just praying to Oghma when writing stuff down? Why do we need another deity to cover it? What's gained by that? And on that note... how come Deneir is Neutral Good? Why is writing stuff seen as purely a good thing? There's a crapton of stuff you write down that are completely neutral or even downright hurtful. So how come this god is considered a Neutral Good deity? This is the kind of query I've been wondering about over in the "Are Evil Gods Necessary?" thread... where I've been partially questioning as to whether or not divine gods should even have alignments. [/QUOTE]
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