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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dausuul" data-source="post: 9385533" data-attributes="member: 58197">I quite like the Greyhawk deities. As [USER=4682]@AdmundfortGeographer[/USER] observed, they look like a mess if you dump them all in the same bucket, but that's because you're doing the equivalent of dumping the Norse, Egyptian, Greek, and Celtic gods in the same bucket. There isn't a "Greyhawk pantheon," there are many Greyhawk pantheons, each with its own distinctive style, and each tied to a particular place and/or time -- very like the real world.And, also like the real world, the categories are not rigid and the boundaries blur. The Egyptian goddess Isis had a flourishing cult in ancient Rome. Pagan rituals were co-opted by the Christian church. In the same way, you see Pelor being worshipped by many people who aren't generally devotees of the Flan deities, or some orcs favoring Hextor over Gruumsh, and "loner gods" like Boccob attached to no pantheon.It makes the world feel big and strange and mysterious. Contrast the Forgotten Realms, where you have the same major deities basically everywhere, and they're always sticking a hand into mortal affairs. That feels very stifling to me.</blockquote>