New Design and Development: Pantheon

[Kelon]

We wanted the kind of heavily militaristic god whose temples you might find among non-evil societies who have spent long years at war, as well as among hobgoblins. We wanted a god who embodied just the sort of tyrannical dictatorship that Bane stands for in the Forgotten Realms.


After that quote, I believe that Hobgoblins are a PHB race.

 

[Nifft]

I hate racial pantheons. So "yay" on that front.

However, I also hate evil gods.

Gods with no alignment, just conflicting value systems? That'd be awesome. But a god flat-out wearing a black "I AM EEEEEEVIIIIIIIL" t-shirt is lame.

Cheers, -- N

 

[Wormwood]

After that quote, I believe that Hobgoblins are a PHB race.

I wouldn't even dare to dream such a glorious possibility.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

While it won't make up for dumping gnomes, replacing half-orcs with hobgoblins in the PHB1 would be amazingly cool.

 

[Keefe the Thief]

Cool? It would roxxor my soxxors. If that would be true, i foresee a cool Hobgoblin Samurai in my next Eberron Campaign, he. (Of course, i have one in THIS campaign, but not as a PC).

 

[fuindordm]

The FR Pantheon was about as mix & match as you can get--it doesn't bother me. In fact, I think it adds a bit of verisimilitude. In a setting where humans live alongside nonhumans but the gods are real, I would expect to see a lot of cross-pollination among the races' myths.

 

[Cam Banks]

I wouldn't worry. After the Soth Incident, I don't expect that anything DL-specific will be included as part of the core D&D cosmos ever again. Actually, I don't think any DL-originated creatures even made it into the 3E monster books.

Not overtly, but Dragonlance's influence is wide and far-reaching.

Also, it's interesting that Paladine is no longer a god in Dragonlance, given that this new Bahamut in 4e is almost exactly the DL Paladine.

Cheers,
Cam

 

[StarFyre]

Jazerian

I can't spell it right, but I was hoping Jazerian would make it into the Pantheon. The move of Asmodeus as a god is how I use him somewhat in my cosmology, since I do use Asmodeus, Lady of Pain, Jazerian, Mediator, a few others as those ancient beings that predate the gods. Essences of space, time, and reality themselves so more powerful than any gods could or would be..similar to the Hindu Philosophy of reality actually.

Anyways, Asmodeus in 2E and hinted in 3E was such a being..the Elder Brethren..so was hoping they would kinda use that.

Oh well

Sanjay

 

[Lonely Tylenol]

I think it's fine for the "default" game, as it is indeed better than a bunch of placeholder names, but for a developed campaign world, it really doesn't make sense. In real life, human beings had a hard enough time agreeing on religions and reducing pantheons, so having honest-to-goodness different races have different pantheons makes much more sense to me. Even Dragonlance in its later source material came up with different names and aspects for different peoples to worship the same set of gods, because one pantheon known to all peoples and races by the same names, over thousands of years, really stretches a sense of suspension of disbelief too far for me.

"No, you idiots. My name is Pelor. Paaaaaa-lor."

Not that much of a stretch when the deities are real, personal, and meddle in mortal affairs.

 

[frankthedm]

God that sounds like a He-Man villain...

Hextor LOOKS like exactly like a he-man villian with his name would.

Can He-Man defeat the many arms of...
HEX-TOR​

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http://wizards.com/dnd/images/war_drums_gallery/Aspect_of_Hextor.jpg​