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<blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 7367784" data-attributes="member: 4937">Partly because I'm lazy.&nbsp;&nbsp; I steal a lot of stuff.Partly because Maglubiyet is original in a way that the human deities tend not to be.&nbsp; That extends to most of the demihuman pantheons, because the writer tended to list the things that where important to that people and embody them, which I think is the right approach.&nbsp; Human deities are almost always created by the wrong approach.&nbsp; The Forgotten Realms for example is a hodge podge of deities from the original Deities and Demigods, taken from multiple pantheons, sometimes with the name filed off and sometimes not, and primarily conceived precisely as &quot;god of thieves&quot;, &quot;god of magic-users&quot;, &quot;god of fighters&quot;, &quot;god of druids&quot;, &quot;god of rangers&quot;, &quot;god of paladins&quot;, and even what amounts to a &quot;god of clerics&quot;.&nbsp; Plus a ton of villain gods that are basically the gods of puppy chewing.&nbsp;&nbsp; I never get the sense from any of that that any of the normal concerns a person might have are addressed by the religion.&nbsp;&nbsp; All the deities might provide easy picks for an adventurer wanting a single patron to write down on their sheet, but there is not much in the way of 'god of this part of life' nor anything in the way of narrative which is so important to polytheism.If I change anything with my conception, it would be somewhat erasing the racial distinctions between the deities. That was one of the things that impressed me about 'The Book of the Righteousness'.&nbsp;&nbsp; However, I think I'd go for some middle ground between 'every god for everyone' and very distinct racial pantheons.&nbsp;&nbsp; I do want some explanation for how divided the races are, where you very much get the impression that everyone could all be one happy family if they are all serving the same 12 deities.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Celebrim, post: 7367784, member: 4937"] Partly because I'm lazy. I steal a lot of stuff. Partly because Maglubiyet is original in a way that the human deities tend not to be. That extends to most of the demihuman pantheons, because the writer tended to list the things that where important to that people and embody them, which I think is the right approach. Human deities are almost always created by the wrong approach. The Forgotten Realms for example is a hodge podge of deities from the original Deities and Demigods, taken from multiple pantheons, sometimes with the name filed off and sometimes not, and primarily conceived precisely as "god of thieves", "god of magic-users", "god of fighters", "god of druids", "god of rangers", "god of paladins", and even what amounts to a "god of clerics". Plus a ton of villain gods that are basically the gods of puppy chewing. I never get the sense from any of that that any of the normal concerns a person might have are addressed by the religion. All the deities might provide easy picks for an adventurer wanting a single patron to write down on their sheet, but there is not much in the way of 'god of this part of life' nor anything in the way of narrative which is so important to polytheism. If I change anything with my conception, it would be somewhat erasing the racial distinctions between the deities. That was one of the things that impressed me about 'The Book of the Righteousness'. However, I think I'd go for some middle ground between 'every god for everyone' and very distinct racial pantheons. I do want some explanation for how divided the races are, where you very much get the impression that everyone could all be one happy family if they are all serving the same 12 deities. [/QUOTE]

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