Do You Use the Core Pantheon?

[howandwhy99]

Currently I am playing in a Known World game where we get to choose our gods in the old-school way. So any pantheon, or god, or really anything you're willing to worship is available.

I do enjoy the Greyhawk gods over really any other pantheon or religious system. I have been a huge fan of Boccob for a long time. But as I am playing a lawful character (no good / evil axis in OD&D) he is not available.

 

[VirgilCaine]

Do you use the core pantheon? If so, which gods from it feature prominently in your campaigns?

Yep, and the rest of the old Greyhawk gods also.
Another campaign world I only have Boccob, Nerull, and Pelor as gods, due to the thickness of the Ethereal Plane versus the Outer Planes. So there's more evil elementals summoned than evil outsiders.

 

[Henrix]

Well, currently I am running two greyahwk campaigns, so of course I do. (One of them's revolves around the Adventure Path )

In my homebrews I have used them when I did not want to confuse the PCs with new gods and the religion was sufficiently similar (and it wasn't important that the religion should be different). In those cases I used most of the normal PC deities (Kord, Pelor, St. Cuthbert, etc.) in the PHB, but interfoliated other evil and nonhuman deities if necessary. I would use other Greyhawk deities if I deemed them suitable.

 

[Nightfall]

These obscure Ghelspad accents are really interesting .

Yeah well blame the fact I can't spell ANY thing in FR half the time. Other than simple stuff. Bane. Bhaal, Myrkul. Occastionally Finder.

 

[Nightfall]

My homebrew features a single Lawful Good diety. The non-evil Greyhawk deities as featured in Complete Divine and the Scarred Lands deities exist as saints - mortal raised to sainthood by God - which the people revere and attempt to emulate. Pelor and Heironious are quite popular, as is Enkili (the campaign is set in Scarred Land's Shelzar - transplanted into my homebrew). Evil creatures revere powerful outsiders (Orcus, Asmodeus et al.) and those mortals who these outsiders have raised to sainthood (eg Vecna, Chardun, Gruumsh). The Scarred Land's deities will feature most prominently in this campaign.

You have good taste. Saint Vangal...wow. Never thought I'd see those words.

 

[Ace]

I don't use any of the Greyhawk dieties --

I have several pantheons of my own to play with -- my main game world has 4 (and I am working on a 5th) and my secondary version has 2

 

[Dragon-Slayer]

Sort of. Like many others, in my homebrew, I have an original pantheon of deities.

However, the names and ceremonies of these cults will vary from place to place, so in essence players are free to take their "god" from any world mythology or WoTC setting. So Greyhawk, Faerun or even Dragonlance followers have all been seen....but these merely represent a different aspect to one of the members of the world pantheon. It gets even more confusing, if I mention that people are pagan, so they usually worship three or more gods.

This is also exactly what I do. As the game is for the players to have fun I do not see the need to limit their choice of deities to either one pantheon and/or one deity per character. There is not really any more work involved nor do I have any inclination to limit my players in this way.

 

[Sammael]

If I were ever to run a Greyhawk game, I'd use them (and the other Greyhawk deities). Since I run FR most of the time, only the overlapping deities appear (Corellon, Garl, Ehlonna/Mielikki, Gruumsh, Moradin, Yondalla); however, I still use the Great Wheel for my cosmology, and if players were inclined to travel to the Outer Planes they would learn of the other pantheons and could travel to, say, Nerull's domain, or even switch to worship a Greyhawk deity if they were so inclined.

 

[fusangite]

Absolutely not. The core gods make any campaign world seem cheesy and ridiculous -- I guess I would use them if I were going for a kind of "high camp" sort of feel but cannot otherwise imagine how I would use them.

If there is any core world material WOTC needs to revamp, it is these gods. They don't even seem like they're from the same pantheon. I mean -- what's a saint, for instance?