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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AFGNCAAP" data-source="post: 1138455" data-attributes="member: 871">In a word: Yes!To expand on that word:IMHO, FR is the best example of a bad practice in D&D--an immense amount of detail & variety in human cultures (while lumping all varieties of humans under 1 stat set), while underdeveloping the various demihuman cultures (though all of their various/major cultures are depicted via different stat sets--drow elves, gray elves, high elves, wood elves, wild elves, etc.).  One of the elements of this is providing a plethora of different culturally-based human pantheons, yet having only 1 or 2 pantheons for each demihuman race.IMHO, I think the existence of the multiple pantheons is more or less for accomodating players.  Want to be a pseudo-Egyptian like cleric?  Here's the Mulhorandi pantheon to pick from!  Want to be a LN cleric of war, but not follow the CN god Tempus?  Here's the Red Knight!I have to agree that there is a huge amount of redundancy, and that some areas really do need to be covered.  However, I also think that areas could be trimmed as well by reducing the number of deities who basically have the same pantheons.  I also think that the pantheons need to be less D&D-centric--there should be gods of fertility, harvest, love, & other major aspects of life, and less deities of character classes, character races, or other game-mechanic-related faiths, if you will.Simply put, I think that there should basically be 1 deity per portfolio.  I think that clerics, druids, & other PC "priest" classes should cover the major/dominant deities, while the adept NPC class could cover tightly-focused aspect deities/demi-deities/spirits (like gods of particularly-aligned PC classes, specific locales/nations, etc.), worshipping outsiders (like angels & daemons), as well as "fallen" deities who've lost most of their faithful (Moander, for example).  These deities (whose existence is fact in the setting) may have different names, titles, &/or appearances to faithful from different cultures (for example, Tempus could be known as Anhur by the Mulhorandi & Clangeddin by the dwarves).</blockquote>

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