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<blockquote data-quote="Li Shenron" data-source="post: 8632911" data-attributes="member: 1465"><p>Ok, and let's try to take this positively: it means whatever you choose eventually, it'll make a fine game.</p><p></p><p>But do you mean you have TWO groups you are going to run RHoD for? Could this mean you have the possibility to play it in one setting for group A and another setting for group B? Because that could give you a way out of your indecision. </p><p></p><p></p><p>All right so even if it's just you as DM who want gods, then you definitely need to make a choice.</p><p></p><p>We can't help you pick a fantasy setting because each one of us has its favourites and RHoD will run fine probably in almost all of them. So let's focus on homebrewing. </p><p></p><p>You CAN pick just the pantheon from a published setting and put it in your homebrew world. But again each one of us will suggest their favourite. Let's try building a pantheon from scratch instead.</p><p></p><p>There's a list of basic questions you can go through, each of which contribute to the aspects of the setting:</p><p></p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">do you want a few big deities (3-5), a moderate sized pantheon (<20), a large pantheon (tens) or a myriad pantheon (hundreds)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">do you want the deities to be very clearly defined, mysterious or largely unknown (leading to religions being alternative theories rather than simple allegiances)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">do you want deities to be clearly separate entities or blurred</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">do you want character-like deities or more abstract/conceptual</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">do you want the pantheon to be static (deities never change) or to have new deities being born, disappear, change portfolio or even alignment</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">do you want different pantheons for different worlds, regions or races of creatures</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">do you want the possibility of mortal ascent to godhood</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">do you want portfolios to be simple ("god of justice") or mixed ("god of justice, bogs, cloud giants, bakery and juggling")</li> </ul><p></p><p>At least some of these questions will give you a draft of a list or table to fill in with the specific of each. This is just but one possible structured and "engineering-like" approach to building a pantheon. </p><p></p><p>An alternative is to steal existing deities from published setting following your guts and sense of cool, then change some details including the names to make them your own. Switch the gender or the alignment, merge two deities together, add one very unrelated item to the portfolio and so on.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Li Shenron, post: 8632911, member: 1465"] Ok, and let's try to take this positively: it means whatever you choose eventually, it'll make a fine game. But do you mean you have TWO groups you are going to run RHoD for? Could this mean you have the possibility to play it in one setting for group A and another setting for group B? Because that could give you a way out of your indecision. All right so even if it's just you as DM who want gods, then you definitely need to make a choice. We can't help you pick a fantasy setting because each one of us has its favourites and RHoD will run fine probably in almost all of them. So let's focus on homebrewing. You CAN pick just the pantheon from a published setting and put it in your homebrew world. But again each one of us will suggest their favourite. Let's try building a pantheon from scratch instead. There's a list of basic questions you can go through, each of which contribute to the aspects of the setting: [LIST] [*]do you want a few big deities (3-5), a moderate sized pantheon (<20), a large pantheon (tens) or a myriad pantheon (hundreds) [*]do you want the deities to be very clearly defined, mysterious or largely unknown (leading to religions being alternative theories rather than simple allegiances) [*]do you want deities to be clearly separate entities or blurred [*]do you want character-like deities or more abstract/conceptual [*]do you want the pantheon to be static (deities never change) or to have new deities being born, disappear, change portfolio or even alignment [*]do you want different pantheons for different worlds, regions or races of creatures [*]do you want the possibility of mortal ascent to godhood [*]do you want portfolios to be simple ("god of justice") or mixed ("god of justice, bogs, cloud giants, bakery and juggling") [/LIST] At least some of these questions will give you a draft of a list or table to fill in with the specific of each. This is just but one possible structured and "engineering-like" approach to building a pantheon. An alternative is to steal existing deities from published setting following your guts and sense of cool, then change some details including the names to make them your own. Switch the gender or the alignment, merge two deities together, add one very unrelated item to the portfolio and so on. [/QUOTE]
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