D&D 5E (2024) Let's make 5e specific setting, starting with a pantheon

[Zardnaar]

One god for each class seems enormously gamist, unless the setting is intended to have the existence of classes as a recognizable social pillar.

FR and Greyhawk basically did it

 

[Not a Decepticon]

My primary point is that, with the restrictions given by the OP...there are only 12 positions to be filled.
I don't think that works well with the idea of importing powers/immortals/dieties/gods from across all settings and editions of D&D.
I'm not sure that the OP has realized the corner that they've painted themselves into.

The ifea is once we run out of 12 core classes, we could start bringing up classes from 3rd party supplements, like Pugilists, Illigers, Beasthearts, Talents, Apothecaries etc.

 

[Not a Decepticon]

Well you'll still have the evil gods.

You really can't have a class patron deity be evil. And making them outright good is a stretch outside of a few.

So you'd have maybe 10 neutral gods and two good ones just from there..

So you'll have to have nonclass deities or double up.

I mean I could totally see an evil deity bring patron of a class of ill-repute, we could always probide explanations how it eorks. In fact, I will make it my first submission

Name: Mephistotheles
Title: Lord of Contradictions
Domain: Ambition
Class: Warlock
People: Devil's Tongue Tieflings, Fallen Aasimars, Vampires
Backgrounds: Guild Merchants, Nobles, Rival Interns
Setting taken from: inyerplanar, so I will consider him Planescape rep
Additional notes: Mephistotheles is not formally worshipped by Warlocks, but he is so well know for being through and precise with contracts he forms and that he never breaks the word of his deal, even if he may exploit the wording. As such even good beings, when forming Warlock pacts, will turn to him with writing the deal or adjucating disputes between Warlocks and patrons. He enjoys privledge this gives him to the point he will draft a deal between two of his mortal enemies without screwing them over in any way. However, this association results in Warlocks, even those of Celestials, being seen as at least somewhat shady and facing mistrust.

 

[SkidAce]

FR and Greyhawk basically did it

Could add gods for "npc categories" i.e. god of peasants, god of nobles, god of merchants.

 

[EzekielRaiden]

Every setting needs its bright stars shining in the dark.

• Name: Bahamut
• Titles: Lord of (the) Scales, The Platinum Dragon, King of Justice
• Domain: Solidarity (Bahamut represents good overcoming evil because mortals stood firm together)
• Followers
  • Background: Folk Hero (Bahamut smiles upon those who risk life and limb for innocent strangers)
  • Class: Paladin (Those for whom their word is a sacred bond are dear to Bahamut)
  • People (race/species/lineage): Metallic Dragonborn. (Also, honorable rulers, knightly orders, good dragons, philanthropists.)
• Setting taken from: "Points of Light"/"World of Nerath"/Dawn War Pantheon
• Additional information you want about this version of the deity:
  This version of Bahamut has a neatly-summarized doctrine which shows that, while Bahamut is both Good and Lawful, he is not a slave to evil laws. He commands:
  • Uphold the highest ideals of honor and justice.
  • Be constantly vigilant against evil and oppose it on all fronts.
  • Protect the weak, liberate the oppressed, and defend just order.
  The text notes that "Monarchs are crowned in his name", implying that the divine justice and scrupulous order he represents is held in sufficiently high regard that rulers invoke his name to beef up their legitimacy.
  Further, this Bahamut is notable for being the only one among his divine brethren, in the setting I'm drawing upon, who is actively trying to do something about the plight of the many souls who did not get an afterlife in that setting. That is, because of the damage to the Astral Sea during the Dawn War, many souls simply...can't go to their afterlife. They are stuck wandering the dangers of the Astral Sea for eternity. Bahamut has commissioned several divine asteroid ark-ships(!!!) to act as safe havens for these souls, regardless of their alignment, so long as they agree to play nice, more or less. Or, in brief, this is not a dragon who sits on his pile of gold--he's using it to help the universe at large, in a concrete, discernible way.