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<blockquote data-quote="Kryndal Levik" data-source="post: 371614" data-attributes="member: 7582"><p><strong>Polytheism Problems</strong></p><p></p><p>One of the biggest difficulties I have with polytheism is with racial deities; I'm in the process of redesigning my pantheons for my homebrew and, like many "standard" campaigns, I have separate pantheons for each race (human, elven, orc, etc.). On the one hand, I don't want to homogenize my religions by using the same gods with different aspects- that also has a tendency to mess up "creation myths." My other concern with that approach is that you can have followers of the same god (but of different aspects) coming into conflict. For example- would a lawful good god allow his elven and human followers to fight against each other in a race war (justified or otherwise)?</p><p></p><p>On the other hand, the other approach- truly independent deities for each race- has always seemed very cumbersome. I have about a dozen or so "key" deities for my main human kingdom; if you have even half that for each race, you end up with scores of deities.</p><p></p><p>How have you handled this in your campaigns? I like the polytheistic approach (using an "integrated" human pantheon/church similar to that which is described in Book of the Righteous), but this racial deity problem has always bothered me...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Kryndal Levik, post: 371614, member: 7582"] [b]Polytheism Problems[/b] One of the biggest difficulties I have with polytheism is with racial deities; I'm in the process of redesigning my pantheons for my homebrew and, like many "standard" campaigns, I have separate pantheons for each race (human, elven, orc, etc.). On the one hand, I don't want to homogenize my religions by using the same gods with different aspects- that also has a tendency to mess up "creation myths." My other concern with that approach is that you can have followers of the same god (but of different aspects) coming into conflict. For example- would a lawful good god allow his elven and human followers to fight against each other in a race war (justified or otherwise)? On the other hand, the other approach- truly independent deities for each race- has always seemed very cumbersome. I have about a dozen or so "key" deities for my main human kingdom; if you have even half that for each race, you end up with scores of deities. How have you handled this in your campaigns? I like the polytheistic approach (using an "integrated" human pantheon/church similar to that which is described in Book of the Righteous), but this racial deity problem has always bothered me... [/QUOTE]
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