Do You Use the Core Pantheon?

[hard head]

I am running the adventure path with the Greyhawk gods as written.

In one game I actually asked the DM to allow core gods in his new campaign so I could play a cleric of St Cuthbert (he leaning to the FR pantheon otherwise).

And the WLD campaign another friend is running is also based off core gods to allow players to participate on the basis of access to the core books only.

 

[Kashell]

Yes. I typically run low level campaigns, so gods are just a matter of religion, not a matter of if the PC's are going to be killing them or not.

I add my own spice to the pantheon however.


Note: Anytime PC's do get powerful enough to start meeting with demigods and divine rank characters, I typically use the Norse God pantheon as the 'lower' gods that the PC's interact with. Norse mythology(as Roman and Greek mythology) portrays the gods as 'humans' very well, so using them is far more interesting then say, meeting Vecna.

 

[Staffan]

I ran a "Greyhawk Lite" campaign a while back, mostly using it as a backdrop to Return to the Temple of Elemental Evil. That one used the extended GH pantheon (including the gods from the Living Greyhawk Gazetteer - though the only PC cleric was a follower of St. Cuthbert, and the PC druid was a follower of Obad Hai).

If I'm running a GH campaign, I'll use GH gods. If I'm not, I won't.

 

[GuardianLurker]

In answer to your question, no.

I use my own pantheons, with the exception of the racial religions (which became part of my world when they were first written up in Dragon.) But even the racial religions are secondary, as every race has a more dominant monotheistic religion.

Secondly, I'm surprised this isn't a poll - you've even got enough responses now to determine what the likely categories/answers would be.

 

[Alhazred]

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.

 

[The_Universe]

I use none of the core gods as written IMC. However, I have used a slightly-changed Pelor in a game, and I use the name Moradin to refer to a patriarch of the Dwarven race.

But that's it. Any other divinities or semi-divinities are cribbed from real life myth and legend, or created whole cloth from my imagination.

Hope that helps!

EDIT: I also used the name Hextor, but as reference to a place and not a divinity.

 

[dren]

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.

 

[WayneLigon]

Let's call this market research.

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

I have used it in the past; we used the core pantheon for our first 3E campaign. Wee Jas and Pelor were both prominent.

 

[Ankh-Morpork Guard]

My homebrew started out with them, but now I'm in the process of making a new pantheon. I've got four major Gods already, but haven't really worked out the rest of the group just yet. Its going to take me a while, from the look of it.

 

[Varianor Abroad]

No.