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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AncientSpirits" data-source="post: 6112327" data-attributes="member: 55778">A pantheist theme makes a lot of sense, and originally the Believer theme allowed that. However, there was a challenge of offering access to multiple gods at once--it quickly lead to odd and broken combinations of abilities. Pantheism requires a creative solution that I haven't thought of yet.My understanding is that in many pantheistic religions, people interact with the god that is relevant to a particular activity in order to placate that god and avoid punishment. So a character might pray and/or sacrifice to Beyos before a sea voyage, similarly to Asmodius when dealing with a powerful noble or Esmariah when in need of healing. That is the opposite of Radiance RPG, when the character petitions his 1 favorite god for a boon and suffers nothing otherwise. Perhaps a balanced approach is that the pantheistic believer must petition for the boon in advance by offering prayer or sacrifice (time+wealth), rather than waiting until the moment of need to pick, but he has access to multiple gods (some, most, all?) Moreover, he need to making small offering to the gods even when not in need, in order to remain in good standing with them, otherwise, the prayer/sacrifice needs to be much larger. ... Just an idea...</blockquote>