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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Greja" data-source="post: 4413780" data-attributes="member: 73069">For a lot of campaigns I have noticed that there is trouble with new players adopting gods for their characters. There is a lot to learn when first starting the game, too much when there is a lot of religion. Look at Forgotten Realms with it's hundreds of gods, from the god of streams to the drow god of vengeance (not to be confused with the dwarf god of vengeance). Its hard to roleplay properly when you dont understand the world, especially when you stop to think of the best god to go to for the ressurection of your friend* and you have no memory of where to go. For this reason I opted for 7 major deities. The Seven dieties in my campaigns are the gods of: Fire, Water, Air, Earth, Sun, Moon, and Blood. When you think of a smaller detail of religion, then thiink of which god is best suited to that domain/detail. Rage and Passion for example are both covered by the god of Fire, Duty and Endurance are domains of the Earth god, while Death and Thievery are covered by the goddess of the Moon. Multiple gods may be appropriate for the same goal, and they often work together (creating smaller cults that worship the union). The gods all have names, but new players feel right at home going to the "Sun Lord" for some aid in destroying undead, etc. I've included an old .doc file, which is missing some sections because it wont take my more updated .docx files <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /> *Or even more complicated: A godless mercenary who kills children for gold but died trying to save his love's life.</blockquote>

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