Every god in D&D...ever

[BOZ]

cool, will have to check it out when i get home (work filters don't like planewalker.com)

 

[Alzrius]

if thalmin hadn't jumped on you... you know i would have.

Good to know I can always count on the old guard to keep me honest.

 

[Clueless]

*chuckle*

Well - I'm creating the update as we speak so it should be up soon. I'll make a note here when it is.

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New version is up now.

 

[Knightfall]

Alzrius, you're my new hero! I'm going to get A LOT of use out out this file.

KF72

 

[Turanil]

Thanks for the huge amount of work that went into this file. I downloaded it immediately of course, but... Well, sorry for being rude now, but I do find the info on the gods too succinct to be of any real use in a campaign (for example, there is nothing about the domains they would allow to their priests).

 

[Kae'Yoss]

Stating which pantheon they belong to (if any) would be great. This would also make a great database.

 

[Clueless]

Well, sorry for being rude now, but I do find the info on the gods too succinct to be of any real use in a campaign (for example, there is nothing about the domains they would allow to their priests).

I think how it's intended to be used is a starting point for a GM. They look over the list - pick a god - and then know what resources to go look in for domain information without having to scour each and every book on their bookshelf. The majority of these deities after all come from 2nd and 1st edition. Before domains existed really.

 

[ssampier]

Good attempt, lots of entries. I just wish it was easier to find something, you can use the rudimentary Adobe "find", but it doesn't do a very good job. I searched for the god Pan and received lots of entries on pantheon; several good bookmarks would go a long way to help organize the material.

Ideally, I'd like to see the entries inputed into a SQL database. You could search by alignment, spheres/domain (if available), portfolio, etc. Then you could use several filters to narrow your search even further.

Just an idea

 

[Alzrius]

I think how it's intended to be used is a starting point for a GM. They look over the list - pick a god - and then know what resources to go look in for domain information without having to scour each and every book on their bookshelf. The majority of these deities after all come from 2nd and 1st edition. Before domains existed really.

As usual, Clueless tagged it perfectly. As I said in the opening part of the file, this is meant to be a reference work. That's because of two reasons: because it seemed both rude and illegal to freely distribute more information than that, and also because any more info on the gods would have taken an exponentially larger effort to catalogue...not to mention that not all gods have more info available, compromising the uniformity even more. I agree that a domain listing would have been great, but as Clueless said, the majority of the time that information just wasn't available, and I didn't want to just make up any of the information.

Stating which pantheon they belong to (if any) would be great. This would also make a great database.

When I initially started this project, I was also going to have cross-indexed lists for where (on what planes) each god lived, and have a pantheon list. Both projects rapidly fell by the wayside, however. The realm list fell apart mostly because only a small fraction of these gods even had it listed where they lived, to say nothing of the FR change from the Great Wheel, etc. Likewise, the pantheon list broke down when I hit the racial pantheons, because I started second-guessing just what constituted being in a racial pantheon. Reorx, for example, is worshipped by dwarves...is he thus a member of the dwarven pantheon? Ghaunadaur is considered a member of the drow pantheon, but there's nothing drow about him (something Lords of Madness points out), so should he be listed there? Questions like that pretty much spelled the death of that work.

A database project is something I haven't ruled out yet though (more on that below).

Good attempt, lots of entries. I just wish it was easier to find something, you can use the rudimentary Adobe "find", but it doesn't do a very good job. I searched for the god Pan and received lots of entries on pantheon; several good bookmarks would go a long way to help organize the material.

Ideally, I'd like to see the entries inputed into a SQL database. You could search by alignment, spheres/domain (if available), portfolio, etc. Then you could use several filters to narrow your search even further.

Just an idea

Well, I presumed that if you knew the name of the god you wanted to find (and it wasn't an alias), then it'd be easy to just zip down to his alphabetical listing. Want Pan, just look after Paladine and before Panu, for example. Bookmarks could be a good idea, but A) I wouldn't be sure what to bookmark...having one for every god seems a bit crazy, and just having one for the beginning of each new letter of the alphabetical listing doesn't seem like enough. Also B) I don't know diddly about PDF-making. The PDF incarnation of this list is the work of Clueless, who is really great for helping out with the technical aspects of all this.

As far as a database goes, I'm currently working on something like that with Static. Right now it's in XML format, and we're seeing what we can do from there.

 

[Clueless]

Updated with new information:
Slavers, and the Living Greyhawk Deities file (downloadable from WotC's site)

Also - bookmarks added for the first god of each letter. (A. B. C etc.) If you think I'm adding a bookmark by hand for *each* deity - I'll remind you that I am a hungry codemonkey and would require payment.

Oh and... *ahem* *bump*

Check out the rest of the site while you're at it.