How many gods is too many gods?

[Voi_D_ragon]

Ok, wow, I leave this thread alone for the summer and it basically explodes. I didn't read all the new comments here, but one thing that I have taken note of is the complaint about too many Overdeities; this is correct and I've since rescaled the the pantheon back a notch: the gods are the same, but now go Overdeity->Greater Deity, Greater Deity->Lesser Deity, Lesser Deity->Demigod. (Also, I don't know if many of you were wondering, but I did steal the almost totality of these from other D&D sources, maybe modifying names/portfolios a bit). The Overdeities in my world, as it were, are no longer present (I called them Primordial Forces, just for the record)-if you want more on those, check this out, I explain their story here: http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?594617-Origins-of-your-Game-World.

 

[MPA2000]

Ok, wow, I leave this thread alone for the summer and it basically explodes..

Yep people clearly have strong opinions when it comes to to things: gods and God. When you talk about an Overdeity, you might as well be implying you are talking about God.

Let's step back a minute, because in games terms, even Overdeities have stats right? Although there was no actually Overdeity in D&D 3 (or was it 3.5?), they gave instructions on how to create one. From memory they were not that powerful right? They still had get their spells the normal way they could only affect their environment within so many hundreds of miles?

I personally use Immortals, not from the old set, but the revised Wrath of the Immortals.

 

[Sword of Spirit]

Yep people clearly have strong opinions when it comes to to things: gods and God. When you talk about an Overdeity, you might as well be implying you are talking about God.

Let's step back a minute, because in games terms, even Overdeities have stats right? Although there was no actually Overdeity in D&D 3 (or was it 3.5?), they gave instructions on how to create one. From memory they were not that powerful right? They still had get their spells the normal way they could only affect their environment within so many hundreds of miles?

I personally use Immortals, not from the old set, but the revised Wrath of the Immortals.

Stats for Overdeities? I've never heard of that. Which book?

 

[cbwjm]

Stats for Overdeities? I've never heard of that. Which book?

3e deities and demigods listed anything with divine rank over, I think, 20 as overdeity status. I don't think they had any gods actually listed at that rank though and I can't really recall what that rank meant in terms of mechanics.

 

[Guest 6801328]

You can have all the gods you want, but thou shalt have none of them before Me.

 

[Sword of Spirit]

3e deities and demigods listed anything with divine rank over, I think, 20 as overdeity status. I don't think they had any gods actually listed at that rank though and I can't really recall what that rank meant in terms of mechanics.

Have that one. No stats for Overdeities whatsover*; neither by way of example Overdeities, nor by way of hypothetical rules for building Overdeities.

* Unless you count "Divine Rank 21+ as" a stat because the other deities use the number to determine some of their abilities

 

[cbwjm]

Have that one. No stats for Overdeities whatsover*; neither by way of example Overdeities, nor by way of hypothetical rules for building Overdeities.

* Unless you count "Divine Rank 21+ as" a stat because the other deities use the number to determine some of their abilities

Yep that's what I was referring to. 21+ is an overdeity but they don't really go into their abilities.

 

[MPA2000]

Have that one. No stats for Overdeities whatsover*; neither by way of example Overdeities, nor by way of hypothetical rules for building Overdeities.

* Unless you count "Divine Rank 21+ as" a stat because the other deities use the number to determine some of their abilities

I can't find my D&D book, but IIRC they have all of the information you need to create your gods. An Overdeity is not mentioned to have any super cosmic abilities. Again, IIRC he just has the only divine power, so there is no way for any other gods to exist or something like that. But of course they can, since everyone likes to "Homebrew", as the younger people call it now days.

Besides Overdeities are not in 5e anyway. It appears that the Greater gods are depicted as an Overdeity from the definition pg 11:

Greater gods: Are beyond mortal understanding. They cannot be summoned, and they are almost always removed from direct involvement in mortal affairs. On very rare occasions they manifest themselves in Avatars like lesser deities, but the slaying of the avatar has no direct affect on the deity himself.

 

[Satyrn]

You can have all the gods you want, but thou shalt have none of them before Me.

Do you mean, like, I have to invite you over for dinner before I can ask out Aphrodite?

 

[MPA2000]

Do you mean, like, I have to invite you over for dinner before I can ask out Aphrodite?

Huh? I hope you are joking. It's paraphrase from the Biblical 10 Commandments where Yaweh commands the Jews to not acknowledged any "gods" but him only.