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<blockquote data-quote="Jesse Day" data-source="post: 714626" data-attributes="member: 10551">Re: Greyhawk GodsSorry, I was viewing an older version of the page during my first reply, and missed your post.At any rate, I'd agree that a large part of the problem is the ignorance of Greyhawk on the part of people like me. But the problem is that there will be people like me, and some of us won't want to spend the ranks in Knowledge: Greyhawk that it'd take to not find the deity names mismatched and bizarre. That's why I think it would be better to throw in a more generic bunch, or better yet, to do without sample deities and devote the space instead to discussing pantheon building, etc, for the individual DM.I can understand that some people don't care, and some people wouldn't want to do all that work. But I'd assume there are some decent books of sample pantheons out there (I don't have them, since usually the religion supplements end up pretty close to the bottom of the list of gaming stuff I want) that do a much better pantheon than can be expected from 10 or so pages in the PHB. That would require those people to buy an extra book to get that information, but I'd tend to think that anyone who cared enough to buy the book would buy it anyway.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Jesse Day, post: 714626, member: 10551"] [b]Re: Greyhawk Gods[/b] Sorry, I was viewing an older version of the page during my first reply, and missed your post. At any rate, I'd agree that a large part of the problem is the ignorance of Greyhawk on the part of people like me. But the problem is that there will be people like me, and some of us won't want to spend the ranks in Knowledge: Greyhawk that it'd take to not find the deity names mismatched and bizarre. That's why I think it would be better to throw in a more generic bunch, or better yet, to do without sample deities and devote the space instead to discussing pantheon building, etc, for the individual DM. I can understand that some people don't care, and some people wouldn't want to do all that work. But I'd assume there are some decent books of sample pantheons out there (I don't have them, since usually the religion supplements end up pretty close to the bottom of the list of gaming stuff I want) that do a much better pantheon than can be expected from 10 or so pages in the PHB. That would require those people to buy an extra book to get that information, but I'd tend to think that anyone who cared enough to buy the book would buy it anyway. [/QUOTE]

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