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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Voadam" data-source="post: 4681910" data-attributes="member: 2209">I don't know, there seems a to be a ton of FR deities who this does not apply to.What is the D&Dism of the FR goddess of Joy (Leira or Liira, I forget)? How about Eldath of the cooling waters?Most of the FR class deities are real world ones so they don't lose their depth just because they are in a new context. Mielikki is Finnish, Silvanus is the roman name of a Celtic god, Tymora was originally Tyche from Greek but with FR development split into Tymora and Beshaba thanks to that evil plant god. Lathander is Apollo just like Sune is Aphrodite. Mystra, Mask, Tempus, and Torm (If you don't go with the Norse transplant Tyr) are what are left.And even for those that fit D&Disms FR has done a lot of development of their deities and mythologies. I thoroughly enjoyed reading the 2e Powers and Pantheons, Faiths and Avatars, and Demihuman Deities for a large part because of these mythology aspects.As for how it happened originally in FR there was an early Dragon Magazine article where Ed Greenwood discusses creating pantheons and goes through how he came up with the FR pantheon. Been a couple decades since I read it though so I don't have more to offer on the actual thinking at the moment.Criticising FR as not organic seems a wierd criticism to me, since it has had such a wide development from multiple different authors and accreted so many different things.It seems the criticism might apply more to pantheons like those in the Scarred Lands or on Krynn where the deities are specifically organized to match and fill D&D alignment.</blockquote>

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