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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 331214" data-attributes="member: 4937">Posistioning God as just one of the pagans makes for a much more intuitive, much more tradiational D&D setting, but it also raises a number of side issues.  If you intend to have the world somewhat resemble the historical of the period, the Judeo-Christian god is the process of monopolizing worship in a large portion of the setting - effectively and thoroughly destroying various pantheons as viable deities.  (There are no practicing temples of Athena today, for instance.)  This raises a variety of questions, some of which can safely remain 'behind your screen' but some of which will come into play especially if the PC's find themselves the servants of 'the many gods' that 'the one god is driving out'.  (See the movie Excaliber).  Just what is the relationship between the many gods and the one god who claims to be the only God, and why are they allowing him to run roughshod over them?  Is it senility?  Is it weakness?  Is it in fighting amongst themselves?  What is the relationship between say the Norse narrative of Ragnarok and this one god who seems to be rewritting the future (and maybe even the past) of this world?  Has Ragnarok already happened?  Is this god Baldur - god of light, love, and beauty - returned to lead the people in a glorious new age?  Are the many gods resisting or are they resigned to thier fate?  The answer makes a big difference in what they have thier followers do.  Perhaps they are actually conceeding the rights to the universe for reasons of thier own and cooperating with thier own destruction as deities.  Were any of the other gods ever real or were they always side incarnations or misinterpretations of God, and now he is just visibly consolidating his power?  In other words, why is God winning and what is he doing with the spoils?If you still what an answer as to what domains God then has, you might start with Domains that are representative of a conjectural pagan proto-God - something like law, good, protection, storm, destruction, and war - and build up from there based on a the domains of a list of deities that have already gone extinct.  Similarly, Satan may be defacto inheriting domains that God feels are beneath him - most notably evil and trickery. (Death God apparantly reclaimed after Cavalry, if he ever indeed conceded it, evidenced by the reference to Christ claiming the keys to Death and Hell - although it should be noted that Satan vehemenately (naturally) denies his defeat).  I strongly recommend reading Gaimen's 'American Gods' and Adam's 'Long Dark Tea Time of the Soul' for philosophical inspiration on what happens to a god when he dies (and why they might choose death).I also recommend searching the archives of TheOnion.com for a humurous take on this subject. (In it, the various pagan deities sue God for violation of US anti-trust laws.)Tiefling: If you were a trickster under no compulsion to keep your word, and you had a reputation as a liar, wouldn't you want stories to get leaked out about how you had a code of honor?   Wouldn't that be especially tricky?</blockquote>

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