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<blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 4678096" data-attributes="member: 4937"><p>I'm happy with just about any setting that doesn't have as its pantheon:</p><p></p><p>The God of Rangers</p><p>The God of Paladins</p><p>The God of Druids</p><p>The God of Adventurers</p><p>The God of Fighters</p><p>The God of Theives</p><p>The God of Clerics</p><p></p><p>And so forth.</p><p></p><p>Forgotten Realms I looking right at you. </p><p></p><p>I'm not particularly fond of the Greyhawk pantheon either, although its a good step up from Forgotten Realms.</p><p></p><p>The Eberron pantheon gets points for originality, but strikes me as lacking in mythic power. It feels invented, which is quite the opposite of organic.</p><p></p><p>You can do alot worse than transporting a real world extinct (or virtually extinct) polytheistic religion to your campaign world. The Greek Olympians are suitably complex, and quite abit is known about the Egyptian or Norse pantheons as well. </p><p></p><p>By far the best invented pantheon I've encountered is that in Green Ronin's Book of the Righteous, which would certainly be my choice for any campaign I wanted to get up and running fast. </p><p></p><p>With a small amount of work, the 5 deities of Bujold's Chalion Universe would also make a suitable pantheon, as this is one of the most completely realized invented religions I've run across in literature.</p><p></p><p>I've toyed around with my own pantheon over the years, which rather unsurprisingly has many of the same basic features of The Book of the Righteous's cosmology - a fall from grace, a series of wars in heaven, a primordial tree of life, gods being born from the tree of life, a compact between the gods, and so forth. It's got some differences too, one of them being that I've always preferred to have 100's of deities so that I can 'make one to order' whenever I want to create a new cult, temple, or whatever and the 'Book of the Righteous' has a very tight Pantheon with little need and little room for new deities. I keep evolving my home brew and have never done the work to fully lay it out, but it does attempt to address with some complexity all the basic religious questions.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Celebrim, post: 4678096, member: 4937"] I'm happy with just about any setting that doesn't have as its pantheon: The God of Rangers The God of Paladins The God of Druids The God of Adventurers The God of Fighters The God of Theives The God of Clerics And so forth. Forgotten Realms I looking right at you. I'm not particularly fond of the Greyhawk pantheon either, although its a good step up from Forgotten Realms. The Eberron pantheon gets points for originality, but strikes me as lacking in mythic power. It feels invented, which is quite the opposite of organic. You can do alot worse than transporting a real world extinct (or virtually extinct) polytheistic religion to your campaign world. The Greek Olympians are suitably complex, and quite abit is known about the Egyptian or Norse pantheons as well. By far the best invented pantheon I've encountered is that in Green Ronin's Book of the Righteous, which would certainly be my choice for any campaign I wanted to get up and running fast. With a small amount of work, the 5 deities of Bujold's Chalion Universe would also make a suitable pantheon, as this is one of the most completely realized invented religions I've run across in literature. I've toyed around with my own pantheon over the years, which rather unsurprisingly has many of the same basic features of The Book of the Righteous's cosmology - a fall from grace, a series of wars in heaven, a primordial tree of life, gods being born from the tree of life, a compact between the gods, and so forth. It's got some differences too, one of them being that I've always preferred to have 100's of deities so that I can 'make one to order' whenever I want to create a new cult, temple, or whatever and the 'Book of the Righteous' has a very tight Pantheon with little need and little room for new deities. I keep evolving my home brew and have never done the work to fully lay it out, but it does attempt to address with some complexity all the basic religious questions. [/QUOTE]
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