D&D 5E Appendix B: Gods

[Li Shenron]

I think they've mentioned there will be most of the FR pantheon, Eberron, Greyhawk, and Dragonlance pantheons, along with Greek, Norse, Celtic and Egyptian.

I think it's this, but only the main deities, 12-15 or max 20 for FR only. And definitely no room for racial pantheon s

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Ravenloft probably ought to have a pantheon, but doesn't really have an iconic one, as far as I can recall.

Mr. Google says there are Ravenloft-specific gods, but most of them were rebranded gods from the Forgotten Realms and other TSR worlds that Sword & Sorcery had to rename.

If there is a 5E-era Ravenloft treatment, it'd be nice to see at least a small set of core Ravenloft iconic deities. If any setting had ordinary people beseeching the divine for help, it'd be that one, I'd think.

 

[Remathilis]

Here's my thought:

1.) They are going to just be tables: no writeups.
2.) The Greyhawk Pantheon is going to be the "3e" deity list from the PHB: 14 deities not counting the racial gods.
3.) Forgotten Realms will be the major/important Gods: probably around 20. (Lathander, Torm, Mystra, Bane, Selune, Cyric, etc)
4.) Dragonlance has a tight pantheon: 21 total.
5.) The Elves are a small pantheon: 9 deities + 6 drow deities.
6.) Dwarves: 8
7.) Halflings: 6
8.) Gnomes: 8
4-8b.) Alternately, they could do a "racial" pantheon with the heads of the major racial gods (Moradin, Correlon, Lolth, Tiamat, Eadro, Bahamut, Gruumsh, etc) probably 20 or so deities done that way. I suspect most monster deities will be in the PHB and aren't necessarily getting cleric domains.
9.) Eberron is 20 religions (22 if they add the minor faiths)
10.) Olympians: 19
11.) Pharonic: 14
12.) Asgardian: 20.

A tight font with nothing but name, alignment, portfolio, domains could easily fill 15 pages.

 

[doctorhook]

Here's my thought:

1.) They are going to just be tables: no writeups.
2.) The Greyhawk Pantheon is going to be the "3e" deity list from the PHB: 14 deities not counting the racial gods.
3.) Forgotten Realms will be the major/important Gods: probably around 20. (Lathander, Torm, Mystra, Bane, Selune, Cyric, etc)
4.) Dragonlance has a tight pantheon: 21 total.
5.) The Elves are a small pantheon: 9 deities + 6 drow deities.
6.) Dwarves: 8
7.) Halflings: 6
8.) Gnomes: 8
4-8b.) Alternately, they could do a "racial" pantheon with the heads of the major racial gods (Moradin, Correlon, Lolth, Tiamat, Eadro, Bahamut, Gruumsh, etc) probably 20 or so deities done that way. I suspect most monster deities will be in the PHB and aren't necessarily getting cleric domains.
9.) Eberron is 20 religions (22 if they add the minor faiths)
10.) Olympians: 19
11.) Pharonic: 14
12.) Asgardian: 20.

A tight font with nothing but name, alignment, portfolio, domains could easily fill 15 pages.

13.) Cthulhu Mythos
14.) Melnibonean Mythos

...Until they're removed in the second printing.

 

[doctorhook]

9.) Eberron is 20 religions (22 if they add the minor faiths)

Quite right, although I fully expect they'll give the alignment of all 15 gods of the Sovereign Host and Dark Six--despite the fact that in-world they're almost never worshipped independently--since they've already been doing so with example deities in 5Basic.

 

[Sword of Spirit]

I believe they have explicitly mentioned Forgotten Realms, Greyhawk, Dragonlance, Eberron, Greek, Norse, Celtic, Egyptian and "racial" pantheons.

Mike also said something along the lines of the "major" deities being represented.* I'm assuming, like others, that that is broad enough to encompass say the 3e PHB deities for Greyhawk and all the Dragonlance deities, not just a few deities for each pantheon.

The appendix appears to have about 8 pages dedicated to it, and if deities are merely listed in table view (similar to the charts from the 3e Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting), we can get quite a few in those pages. I'm assuming that's what they are doing, with perhaps a paragraph or two of text explaining the nature of each pantheon.

*EDIT: His words were "We tried to map most common deities to the lineup"

 

[M.L. Martin]

Mr. Google says there are Ravenloft-specific gods, but most of them were rebranded gods from the Forgotten Realms and other TSR worlds that Sword & Sorcery had to rename.

If there is a 5E-era Ravenloft treatment, it'd be nice to see at least a small set of core Ravenloft iconic deities. If any setting had ordinary people beseeching the divine for help, it'd be that one, I'd think.

Late 2E and 3E Ravenloft tended towards two major henotheistic religions--Ezra and Bane/the Lawgiver--a couple smaller or more esoteric cults--Hala and the Morninglord--and a few other henotheistic or tight-pantheon sects and cults, including a couple that were only figments empowered by Ravenloft itself.

But I think Basic makes it pretty clear that the pantheons in the PH are FR, Dragonlance, Eberron, Greyhawk, Norse, Celtic, Greek and Egyptian. With the exception of Celtic, those are the 3E pantheons as well.

I do think a lot of people are going to miss the Raven Queen. OTOH, she might have trademark issues nowadays.

 

[doctorhook]

I do think a lot of people are going to miss the Raven Queen. OTOH, she might have trademark issues nowadays.

I agree with all of this, although I had to google what you meant about the trademark thing. I sort of have a hard time imagining Hasbro letting Mattel just run-off with a character name like that...

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Late 2E and 3E Ravenloft tended towards two major henotheistic religions--Ezra and Bane/the Lawgiver--a couple smaller or more esoteric cults--Hala and the Morninglord--and a few other henotheistic or tight-pantheon sects and cults, including a couple that were only figments empowered by Ravenloft itself.

It'd be nice to foreground those a bit more and make them central to the setting, next time around.

I do think a lot of people are going to miss the Raven Queen. OTOH, she might have trademark issues nowadays.

Is anyone really going to mistake a D&D goddess for an obscure Mattel doll?

 

[gyor]

Sorry about missing leading people into thinking this was a preview, that was not delibrte.

And the Adventurer's Legue Handbook specifically says that the PHB has both FR and Racial Pantheons, so its a 100% certain that racial Pantheons are in the PHB.

And that makes sense because many of the racial Gods belong in multiple settings, FR, Greyhawk, Planescape, Spelljammar I think, Nentir Vale, possibly others.

And it refers to them as Pantheon Lists, this isn't a setting book, there isn't likely going to be a paragraph explaining each deity, its take more then 8 pages. I agree its likely to be lists/charts of Gods and thier key info, Domains, Divine Realm, Prefered Weapon, Prehaps prefered Paladin Oaths, name of Priesthood if it has one, Portifilio.

And yes I'm typing on a cellphone and I have sucky spelling, any who doesn't like it can kiss my Channel Divinity ;p