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<blockquote data-quote="klofft" data-source="post: 5618251" data-attributes="member: 40326">This is an interesting topic and near and dear to my heart.My last world had a distant, unknown Creator God and all the &quot;gods&quot; were essentially angels of various power levels.&nbsp; It was similar to the theology of Middle Earth.Now, moving to D&amp;D4 (and wanting to use the &quot;core pantheon&quot;), I'm toying with something new.&nbsp; My problem is that part of me wants to appeal to the mythic &quot;gods are petulent children warring with each other.&quot;&nbsp; But my actual day job is being a theologian, so I can't escape some ideas: where did the gods get their power? Without getting into a formal philosophical/theological discussion, the so-called Five Proofs too strongly suggest a single god to me and my group.An idea we're toying with is that the pantheon is like the Christian Trinity, in that they are individual persons of one divine nature.&nbsp; The big difference is that the persons are unaware that they are one god, so they squabble and fight among themselves.So either God has a personality disorder or there is a mystery to the divine nature that we haven't fully figured out yet.&nbsp; In either case, the people of the setting have not yet philosophized the existence of a single god.&nbsp; (This is still a work in progress, so if anyone has any comments on it, they'd be welcome.)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="klofft, post: 5618251, member: 40326"] This is an interesting topic and near and dear to my heart. My last world had a distant, unknown Creator God and all the "gods" were essentially angels of various power levels. It was similar to the theology of Middle Earth. Now, moving to D&D4 (and wanting to use the "core pantheon"), I'm toying with something new. My problem is that part of me wants to appeal to the mythic "gods are petulent children warring with each other." But my actual day job is being a theologian, so I can't escape some ideas: where did the gods get their power? Without getting into a formal philosophical/theological discussion, the so-called Five Proofs too strongly suggest a single god to me and my group. An idea we're toying with is that the pantheon is like the Christian Trinity, in that they are individual persons of one divine nature. The big difference is that the persons are unaware that they are one god, so they squabble and fight among themselves. So either God has a personality disorder or there is a mystery to the divine nature that we haven't fully figured out yet. In either case, the people of the setting have not yet philosophized the existence of a single god. (This is still a work in progress, so if anyone has any comments on it, they'd be welcome.) [/QUOTE]

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