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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Arcane Runes Press" data-source="post: 161311" data-attributes="member: 402">Information said: I have to disagree with this in a huge way. The statement that each campaign is unique and that each DM will tailor deities to fit the milieu is just as easily applied to the listed stats as it is to faith and church info. IMO, the average DM is going to get more use out of suggested rituals, beliefs, prayers, church structures and, most importantly, interactions between gods and their churches and gods and their peers than they will from exact listings of Hextor's BAB. This is particularly true within the "default" Greyhawk pantheon, which does not benefits from the multitude of academic texts detailing the Norse, Greek and Egyptian pantheons.I think the biggest problem comes in within the last sample pantheons, those that provide examples of Monotheistic, Dualistic and Mystery Cult religions. In each case, there is only a VERY brief listing of dogma and church issues, followed by long sets of statistics for a brand new god(gods) that NO ONE IS EVER LIKELY TO USE.  Why? A Mystery Cult is not defined by the BAB of its deity. Why didn't they use that space to provide guidelines for building a convincing system of beliefs or, at the very least, break down exactly how the god's statistics infuenced the core beliefs of the faithful.</blockquote>