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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Primal" data-source="post: 4959178" data-attributes="member: 30678">Pointless hyperbole; the original list and descriptions of deities in the Grey Boxed Set contains doesn't have more deities than Greyhawk or Eberron. The number swelled when every individual wanted to create/drop his own set (or even a whole pantheon's worth) of deities in FR; some of these fit nicely, while others were just "shoehorned" into the Realms. That resulted in the three "deity books" during the 2E era, and a single book ('Faiths & Powers')after 3E had come out.Still, FR doesn't have nearly as much deities as some settings; I know DMs who literally have thousands of gods and goddesses in their homebrewed campaigns, and it doesn't feel . Neither is the existence of the Chosen (note: originally only Mystra had her Chosen; I guess the designers felt other deities need their own "paragons", too, out of balance reasons) problematic per se; if you ask me, ALL of your complaints -- the reason behind the existence of the deities, the number of Chosen, and so on -- derive from what I would call bad writing from authors and designers (and I don't personally think FR had too many deities; on the contrary, the pantheons are radically smaller than RW pantheons). You write in the first paragraph about how a DM is "green-lighted" to ignore the domain restrictions, but you don't think the same applies to "make the Realms your own"-advice presented in every FR campaign setting book, hey? No need to adhere fanatically to canon or make exaggarated complaints about a setting's problems if you haven't tried it (which I suspect is the case here; my apologies if I'm wrong). @OP: FR has a lot of cults and cabals, some of whom worship different aspects of the same deity than the "orthodox" worshippers. 'Power of Faerun' even includes mechanics ('Heretic of the Deity'-feat) for creating your own aspect of an established faith (you can ). LFR is naturally a different beast, but you could always ask a DM to allow you an alternative set of Domains.</blockquote>

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