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<blockquote data-quote="ninthcouncil" data-source="post: 73291" data-attributes="member: 2566">Even in polytheistic cultures, there would tend to be &quot;ruling&quot; gods who stood higher in the heirarchy than the others - Zeus, Jupiter, Odin etc. That was their role, and the role of their devotees (the ruling class) in the society. There is no sense of this in the default D&amp;D &quot;pantheon&quot;, which is an incoherent mess designed around a game mechanic (alignments).Something that's always bugged me - this &quot;Saint&quot; Cuthbert. Of what religion is he a saint? HIS OWN? <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f631.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":eek:" title="Eek!&nbsp; &nbsp; :eek:"&nbsp; data-smilie="9"data-shortname=":eek:" /> Talk about redundancy.If you want to see how a pantheon (or, even better, a set of pantheons with complex relationships to each other) should really work, look at Runequest. You won't find any of it in the core books- yet. It will be real interesting to see how Deities and Demigods handles this....</blockquote>

[QUOTE="ninthcouncil, post: 73291, member: 2566"] Even in polytheistic cultures, there would tend to be "ruling" gods who stood higher in the heirarchy than the others - Zeus, Jupiter, Odin etc. That was their role, and the role of their devotees (the ruling class) in the society. There is no sense of this in the default D&D "pantheon", which is an incoherent mess designed around a game mechanic (alignments). Something that's always bugged me - this "Saint" Cuthbert. Of what religion is he a saint? HIS OWN? :eek: Talk about redundancy. If you want to see how a pantheon (or, even better, a set of pantheons with complex relationships to each other) should really work, look at Runequest. You won't find any of it in the core books- yet. It will be real interesting to see how Deities and Demigods handles this.... [/QUOTE]

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