I thought it was not a bad article.
One thing it glossed over a bit is that 4e uses a "tight pantheon" model. In fact, it uses three tight pantheons - Celestia (Moradin, Bahamut, Kord), Hestivar (Erathis, Ioun, Pelor) and the Free Gods (Corellon, Sehanine, Avandra and Melora) - within a slightly looser tight pantheon (the good and unaligned gods, which includes all the above plus the Raven Queen) - within a slightly looser again tight pantheon (the good and unaligned gods plus all the evil (but not chaotic evil) gods except perhaps Asmodeus).
That last tight pantheon then faces off against their Primordial and Demonic enemies plus Tharizdun, with Gruumsh as a destructive free agent and Lolth and Asmodeus having their own distinctive roles as enemies of both opposed factions.
I think it would be helpful for a new DMG to talk about the range of different possibilities, drawing on various aspects of D&D tradition as well as other relevant examples, such as the 3E DDG versions of the Norse, Greek and Egyptian pantheons stripped from their actual historical context but still preserving some of their key and distinctive features as mythologies. (The 3E DDG did this much better than the AD&D DDG.)
One thing it glossed over a bit is that 4e uses a "tight pantheon" model. In fact, it uses three tight pantheons - Celestia (Moradin, Bahamut, Kord), Hestivar (Erathis, Ioun, Pelor) and the Free Gods (Corellon, Sehanine, Avandra and Melora) - within a slightly looser tight pantheon (the good and unaligned gods, which includes all the above plus the Raven Queen) - within a slightly looser again tight pantheon (the good and unaligned gods plus all the evil (but not chaotic evil) gods except perhaps Asmodeus).
That last tight pantheon then faces off against their Primordial and Demonic enemies plus Tharizdun, with Gruumsh as a destructive free agent and Lolth and Asmodeus having their own distinctive roles as enemies of both opposed factions.
I think it would be helpful for a new DMG to talk about the range of different possibilities, drawing on various aspects of D&D tradition as well as other relevant examples, such as the 3E DDG versions of the Norse, Greek and Egyptian pantheons stripped from their actual historical context but still preserving some of their key and distinctive features as mythologies. (The 3E DDG did this much better than the AD&D DDG.)
