Core Religion Survivor, Round Two

[el-remmen]

People find it difficult to pronounce "Corellon"?

Anyway, VECNA IS NOT A GOD!

So my vote is easy. ..

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

I actually like Pelor. Especially after his Dragon magazine article. I have an NPC cleric of Pelor in my Savage Tide game who is something of a pacifist, but hates Undead with a passion (which makes for a lot of fun, since we have a cleric of Wee Jas in the group). She's an AMAZING healer (CMW for 2d8+8?), and the rest of the group secretly wishes that the cleric of Wee Jas would take a hike so they could hire the Cleric of Pelor, vow of Pacifism and All.

Eh, Pelor is the Generic Sun God of Goodness, just like a million uninspired Generic Sun Gods of Goodness. The Aztecs, now THEY knew how to create an interesting sun god. (So did the Greeks, for that matter.) Pelor is just ... there.

I voted for Yondalla, not because I find her domain boring (I don't), but because of her racial aspect and alignment. Yondalla is the Lawful Good goddess of Halflings, who, since the new editions, are predominantly neutral. Plus, her farming and village lifestyle doesn't really mesh with the Races of the Wild's description of halflings as nomadic gypsies. Because of this, Yondalla must go.

Yeah, Yondolla was a great goddess for hobbits. She's totally out of step with neokender.

 

[Jefe Bergenstein]

Obviously, non-Humans in general aren't allowed to have deities...the Elves and Gnomes are done, and early results here show the Hobbits might be next.

Kinda sad, really...

Lanefan

NO, its because the non-human dieties dont make sense in comparison to the human dieties. Why is there a dwarven god of dwarves, and a human god of strength, a human god of honorable battle, a human god of tyrannical battle, TWO human gods of magic, TWO of death...

Why do humans require ten times the gods of other races? Scrapping the demi-human dieties makes more sense, and have them all worship the same pantheon.

 

[lukelightning]

Scrapping the demi-human dieties makes more sense, and have them all worship the same pantheon.

It's fine and dandy for an elf to worship the elfy god of elfyness, but as soon as a human wants to worship a god of humans they become some Nazi-esque racist; every "God of Humans God" I have seen has been Evil and bigotted. I guess it's ok for dwarves, elves, etc. to be racist (species-ist?).

 

[CRGreathouse]

Goodbye Lolth. You were fun back when you were a Demon Queen of Spiders who, among other things, bossed the drow along. But that's where you went wrong...you tied yourself up with those has-been losers and they are like an anchor dragging you to your death.

What more can I say?

I'm not a fan of the demihuman deities. I don't see gods like Boccob, Nerull, and Kord as human as such; they're certainly not like the demihuman deities "Creator and Patron of race X".

 

[Festivus]

Kurtulmak, because kobolds suck.

 

[el-remmen]

It's fine and dandy for an elf to worship the elfy god of elfyness, but as soon as a human wants to worship a god of humans they become some Nazi-esque racist; every "God of Humans God" I have seen has been Evil and bigotted. I guess it's ok for dwarves, elves, etc. to be racist (species-ist?).

I have a human god of humans in addition to the "normal" pantheonic range and other racial deities in my setting.

 

[lukelightning]

I have a human god of humans in addition to the "normal" pantheonic range and other racial deities in my setting.

Oh, I'm not against it; it's just that normally these gods of humans are projections of our modern Amercan fears of ethnic supremacism, which gets tiresome. I would love to see a Chaotic Good God of Humans or something like that.

Given the sheer number of half-human/half-something else things in the D&D world, maybe this deity is actually the God of Gettin' it On Freaky-Deaky Style.

 

[The_Gneech]

Olidammerit, get off the island!

-The Gneech

 

[Mouseferatu]

Anyway, VECNA IS NOT A GOD!

So my vote is easy. ..

Word.