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Message: <blockquote data-quote="catastrophic" data-source="post: 5610136" data-attributes="member: 81381">The gods in my campaign are a pretty varied bunch, and various sorts of entities, too. Some are the full on supernal deities, others may be false, and different cultures have differetn ideas as to what a 'god' is.  For instance, the goblins in a particular region have a pantheon of gods, each of which is basically the super-enhanced guardian of a given tribe- literally just abominations created by various sorts of dark magic which they keep in deep pits in their home bases, and release if some kind of big trouble starts up.  They keep them fed and appeased, but they only venerate them isofar as they do any powerful entity, and since each goblin god is completle insane from the proceses they go through, it's not like they'd let them be in charge or anything. Of course, the death of such a god would mean disaster for the tribe, since it's not like it's thar easy to make one, or anything. Most are simply extremly poweerful spellcasters that ended up turning into monsterous giant mutants at some point, while others are bound demons or elementals which were extremly difficult to gain the service of.  This has some interesting implications- for instance, for a goblin tribe to rise to great power and gain vassals from other tribes, they need to have a god, or at least convince the other tribes that they do.  On the other hand, since the goblin gods are without doubt the most powerful combatants in the tribes, the result is a more meritocratic leadership within tribes- rulership by strength is gradually replaced by more organised system, because being the toughest or the meanest is a lot less impressive when everyone knows the real heavyweight champion is the crazy magic giant who you have chained up in the basement.</blockquote>

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