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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ltheb Silverfrond" data-source="post: 3241648" data-attributes="member: 39867">Well, for a setting I have been working on for quite a while, I actually have very little (1.5 countries) So the end-distribution of deities is pretty foggy.What I have so far: (and why)[sblock]1 Greater Deity (Human god; Humans in one area are the dominent race, and believe in monotheism, so their god is pretty potent.) - Lawful Good (Humans tend to prefer law over chaos, and believe their god embodies "perfection") - Domains: Protection, Healing, Good, Law (Average domain spread; Clerics of the god could really pick any domain they wanted, within justification. Had to give clerics something since human clerics get pretty shorted when it comes to picking a deity) - And don't ask me for a name. I don't know. I just have all the priests nebulously refer to him as "god." (I am lazy, and can't decide on a good name)2 Intermediate Deities; The Elven God ('kept his name Correllon for ease of use) and the Dwarven God (Again, I am lazy; his name is Moradin) - They are the creators and central deities to their respective races. I put them at intermediate because there races arn't very expansive within the setting I have so far.4 Lesser Deities; The halfling god - (Again, no name. Halflings mesh so well with humans despite their differences that I never gave it much thought) And the Gnomeish Pantheon - Garl Glittergold, Gnomish creater god; Zookmottin, deitiy of Illusions; and Ixilblix, Gnomish God of Heavy Artillery. (I use gnomes as comic relief, so they have pretty short, as in one scene, lifespans. I paint them generally as Insane. Good for quite a few laughs. Don't make for a very good player race since roleplaying them that way tends to get you killed, so I am currently seeking alternatives) These are just the "goodly" deities. There is an alternate "pantheon" of evil deities. (Really just opposition to the current greater god, you know, the standard "forces to corrupt men to evil or to bring about total destruction" type of evil)[/sblock]As for the rest; I don't know. I have only thrown together one country and made reference to two others, and while the one is pretty big, I haven't set the rest of the world in stone just yet.My desired distribution would be no more than 1-3 greater gods, and twice as many intermediate gods, and twice as many lesser gods than intermediate. (Whats the point if the "greater gods" arn't greater than their peers?) I also don't want to go the way of FR, where theres a god for every possible race/class/favorite color. Way too much to keep track of.There are ascended gods within the pantheon, (9 or so just from adventures and campaine history) however most don't reach above Hero Deity level. Each of the Gods have their own agenda for who they sponsor. It's a pretty low-magic setting, so trying to amass power points by slaying the divine isn't a smart idea. (Oh, sorry Billy, theres only one sword in all the world that could pierce this Pit-Fiend's flesh. We could roll this out, but he probably kills you with impunity...) But it has been done.Gaining power through worship, such as a couple of ascended evil deities did, works nicely. I have most Ascended deities stay on the material plane, since they don't usually have too much power they can exercise from other planes. Should they wish to grant a miracle, they pretty much have to use their own resources to do it. Most don't come out and say "Blarg I are a god.", they tend to work in secret to advance the goals of their higher-ups, or to keep themselves safe, in the event they arn't strong enough to handle their enemies.It is alot of work designing a setting. My best bet is to maintain the status quo - Unless I need to give the answer, I don't work it out ahead of time. I just note the answer I give and make it cannon. (Only works as long as I don't give stupid/poor answers.) One advantage of having my own setting: If I misspeak and say 'blah' is the king, and I didn't intend to use that name, I can just have a war or an assassination or something! Unfortunately, this doesn't work so well for pantheons...</blockquote>

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