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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 6320056" data-attributes="member: 7006">Looking at the FR Greater Deities list... it seems like everything is actually pretty well condensed to a potential 4E-ish number.There are 21 deities listed under 'Greater' for humans... however 4 of them are the four elemental deities, another 6 are evil deities (and thus wouldn't ordinarily appear in a regular deity list) and the last one is primarily a Chultan god (Ubtao)  The remaining 10 greater deities are as follows:Chauntea - goddess of agricultureKelemvor - god of deathLathander - god of birth and springMystra - goddess of magicOghma - god of knowledgeSelune - goddess of the moon and starsSilvanus - god of natureSune - goddess of loveTempus - god of war and battleTorm - god of duty and loyaltySo that gives you an easy list to use as your primary functionality for gods in the Realms.  You really needn't go much further than that if you didn't want.However, if you did want to add a few more, you have another couple of steps.  First off, you can add in the four Greater Deities of the demihuman races:Moradin - dwarven god of creation and smithingCorellon - elven god of music and artsGarl - gnome god of humor and trickeryYondalla - halfling god of bounty and familyAnd then you could also add in the remaining 6 non-evil Intermediate deities:Bahamut - god of wisdom and justiceGond - god of artifice and craftIlmater - god of endurance and sufferingMielikki - goddess of forests and autumnTymora - goddess of fortune and skillWaukeen - goddess of trade and moneySo for a baseline game... you could stick with the 10 Greater Deities and use them.  Or if you wanted more variation... add in the other 10 and give yourself 20.  Or mix and match as you feel is needed... like using the 10 Greater human deities plus Moradin and Corellon (getting you closer to what 4E's setting went with in terms of domain and gods.)Speaking personally... I'm probably going to end up looking at the actual domains the PH gives us and then determine off of that which and how many of the FR gods I'm going to make available for cleric selection.  So for instance... if there's only five domains as were mentioned in the last playtest packet (Knowledge, Light, Life, Nature, and War)... then I'll probably just offer up to my players the five greater deities that align to them that they can select from:Oghma - knowledgeLathander - lightChauntea - lifeSilvanus - natureTempus - warBut we'll have to see.  I'm actually hoping we might get up to about 8 domains because I'd love to see Magic, Protection/Justice, and Trickery available as well.</blockquote>

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