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Message: <blockquote data-quote="RPG_Tweaker" data-source="post: 3860526" data-attributes="member: 13041">I really like this move to a more diversified template for a world mytholgy. I'm glad they are finally fixing the clunky slapdash method of religion-to-race of previous versions. It always struck me odd that there was all this superfluous domain coverage... and worse, a sort of divine apartheid.—————They are finally accepting that in D&D, were the gods actually exist, using our real-world structure—a multitude of unrelated, humanocentric, artificially created, culture-based pantheons—fails to satisfy any real scrutiny.In the real world, the gods (assuming they actually do exist) don't commune with their preists or grant them spells, so we've been free to create them in our own image based on our various cultures. Each with a numerous number of names and domains, with worshippers subject to a vast array of conflicting dogma.In D&D the gods aren't subjective; one doesn't really have the option to disbelieve in them or completely disregard their goals. Here, clerics' prayers are actually answered; they can summon celestials and infernals, and the very gods themselves walk the earth in avatar form.In the real world Gaia is only a story, created by the Greeks, unrecognized by any culture beyond the Mediterranean. In D&D Gaia IS the earth. She might be known by various names due to language, but every culture and race with a priest-class capable of communing with the gods would know her to exist. Thus her history and her philosophy would be represented in all religions. She would be worshipped (or at least acknowledged) by everything from Aboleth to Yuan-Ti.If Corellon really exists and has taken part in the history of the cosmos, it would seem to follow that just about every intelligent creature would know of him despite what name they used or how they depicted him. It's equally possible that some dragon or even a reformed orc might even pay homage to him.As for the printed names in the PHB... I couldn't care less. I see no reason to use a mongrelized bunch of names drawn from various designer's homebrew campaigns.</blockquote>

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