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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pukunui" data-source="post: 8632980" data-attributes="member: 54629">Yes, I run games for two different groups, and I could potentially run RHoD for both of them. Yes, I could potentially do Eberron for one and homebrew for the other. That would mean twice the work, but it is something I am considering.Re: deities - here's the work I've put into it so far: <a href="https://www.enworld.org/threads/dragons-as-gods.687462/" target="_blank">D&D 5E - Dragons as Gods (+)</a>The first post contains most of the religions / deities from my previous attempt at a homebrew world, with thoughts on "what if they were actually dragons" a la Fizban's. Later in the thread, I had a go at converting a few other existing pantheons (e.g. <a href="https://www.enworld.org/threads/dragons-as-gods.687462/#post-8604675" target="_blank">the Theros pantheon</a>) and also attempted to come up with a <a href="https://www.enworld.org/threads/dragons-as-gods.687462/page-2#post-8610586" target="_blank">new pantheon of gods</a> based purely on the dragons detailed in Fizban's.This is where I started to become stuck - not just on "do I want the gods to be dragons or not?" but also on things like "do I want there to be clerics and paladins or not?" I tried not having them in my previous homebrew iteration, and I thought it was fun and different, but the players didn't really engage with any of the religions. But then they tend not to engage with them that much even when there are clerics and paladins and one of them is actually playing one of those classes, so I guess religion is not something my players are particularly interested in exploring in their fantasy games (and one of them is even an army chaplain in real life!).So it's really only important to me as the DM. And I just can't make up my mind. I can't decide what's better.RHoD by default involves an attempt by the BBEG to summon an aspect of Tiamat, a draconic god. I was talking to a friend who suggested I shouldn't make all the other gods be dragons too because that would lessen the impact of the focus on Tiamat. I'm not sure I agree, but it got me second-guessing myself again.This brings me back to my OP, in which I said I couldn't decide the details of my gods.All I know for sure is that I want the "true" myth of the creation of the homebrew world to be very similar to that of Eberron's. Namely, there was a being known as Io the Concordant Dragon, the creator of everything. Io either died and split into three new beings or created three offspring. Either way, he was succeeded by the three Progenitor Dragons. One of them was evil and killed their sibling, so the third imprisoned the first in her body, creating the planet. This dragon essentially fills the role of Gaia / Mother Earth in this mythology.That's the only bit I can decide on for sure.</blockquote>

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