New Design and Development: Pantheon

[Kid Charlemagne]

Banextor!

Banetor!

Love is a battlefield...

 

[MrFilthyIke]

He got better.

Thanks for the "lol".

 

[Mortellan]

Banetor!

Love is a battlefield...

Oh lord this is going to play havoc with my comic !

 

[Mortellan]

They dumped Hextor? NooooOOOO! They can have my Hextor when they pry him out of all six of my cold dead hands!
I've had virtually no complaints about 4e until this. Bane? That's not a god, that's a word. It's like having a god called "Help." They said that it didn't make sense to include Hextor because they didn't include Heironius. Well, I don't think it makes sense to include Bane unless you include the rest of the Forgotten Realms.

I couldn't agree more. What they seem to be going with seems more like a 'buffet pantheon'. I'm sure it'll be laughable when put up against their old vanilla GH pantheon. If all they need is placeholder names why not make them all completely new gods?

 

[lukelightning]

It's obvious that many of us will houserule/homebrew/domiciledecree our own pantheons. Here's mine:

Bahamut (I like this inclusion)
Pelor
Hextor
Moradin
Wee Jas
Diathalese, God of Fire Beetles
PirateCat

I think I have all the bases covered, right?

 

[med stud]

I like all changes of dietys that consists of taking away Greyhawk dietys. I really didn't like the names of those. I also like that they didn't use real dietys after seeing how they were handled in Dietys and Demigods.

All in all I'm really satisfied with this update

 

[sidonunspa]

Ok this was ok, but come on, are we ever going to see any Mechanics?

 

[Riley]

What they seem to be going with seems more like a 'buffet pantheon'... If all they need is placeholder names why not make them all completely new gods?

Heh. The Forgotten Realms pantheon is itself a 'buffet pantheon,' and is held up as an example of such by some guy named Ed Greenwood in an article called "Down-to-Earth Divinity: One DM's design for a mixed & matched mythos" way back in Dragon Magazine #54.

it's a great idea to pick and choose the best gods from various sources. I love Greyhawk, but its core evil gods have never done much for me. Maybe that's why so many classic modules reference lesser evils like Tharizdun and 'Elemental Evil' rather than Hextor, Erythynul, or that other one I can't even remember the name of right now.

I've never run a Forgotten Realms campaign, but I can remember Bane, Shar, Loviatar, and Malar (among others) far more easily than any of Greyhawk's evil gods.

Just like when 3e elevated Vecna to a god of secrets, it's a good idea to bring the good ideas (and names) to the fore, and let the less useful stuff go in the wastebin.*

*: Of course, if you've got a good use for Hextor, you should keep him in your own campaign.

 

[Charwoman Gene]

It's obvious that many of us will houserule/homebrew/domiciledecree our own pantheons. Here's mine:

PirateCat

I think I have all the bases covered, right?

Making a Patheon from EnWorld names? PREPOSTEROUS!

--Charwoman Gene, God(dess?) of Confusion and Gender Ambiguity

 

[eve_of_dante]

try google!

zehir means poison in Turkish, while Torog means troll in Tolkein's sindarin, apparently...