[OGL] Generic Pantheon base?

[prosfilaes]

You didn't see Kain, the LE god of tyranny and rulership?

Sorry; I must have missed him. I came to the conclusion sometime ago that they weren't useful as a complete pantheon, and in retrospect, I'm not sure why.

So.... if you don't mind my asking... why not just do what I posted above? Take your kobold pantheon, strip out the kobold bits and simply go with generic Titles, leave the Domains however you've got them set up, and then call it good?

Because it's a kobold pantheon, and just doesn't map to the needs of any other species. It'd be more work to try and refashion them to be a generic/human pantheon then to start over.

In the case of a lot of homebrews, people have already done world-building, so the god of [this] has some sort of hissy fit and smacks the god of [that] and you've got 2 gods (and usually therefore their followers) fighting. Maybe the Trickster is behind it, and of course that says several things right there. If you've got a 4th god getting involved in the slap-fest, you're quickly bumping the pantheon out of the "generic" realm.

It gets complex, but there's some of that in anything. In my universe, kobolds and gnomes have no particular antipathy, so I have to take that out of core. But it's pretty easy to remove stuff like that.

Maybe I'm just going to have to sit down with my Manfred Lurker book, grab the Dieties of the Faithful, figure out some god archetypes that are missing, cross some Domains, and call it a day.

I sort of liked WotC's Deities and Demigods, personally.

 

[slwoyach]

+1 on Book of the Righteous.

You might also want to look at the Proto-Indoeuropean mythology themes, most European myth follows that template.

Proto-Indo-European religion - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia