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<blockquote data-quote="Tony Vargas" data-source="post: 371875" data-attributes="member: 996">IMC, I used polytheism, but with the odd twist that the gods were relatively new to the world.&nbsp; Most of the PC races are 'young,' having been around for only a few tens of thousands of years, and the 'elder' races claim that the gods simply didn't exist before (though whether the gods created the young races, or began apearing when the young races started worshiping them is left up in the air - as are a lot of other things).&nbsp; In spite of that, there are various creation myths.For the pantheons, I liberally stole and corrupted names from RL mythology, including greek, roman, egyptian, babylonian, &amp; zoroastreanism, with the fictitious deities only bearing a faint resemblance to thier namesakes....I also drew inspiration from Glorantha, which has already been mentioned, specifically the prevelence of individual cults dedicated to each god.&nbsp; Mechanically, I took the Cleric's bonus Domain spells/powers and granted them to any character who was sufficiently devout and Initiated into a mystery cult.&nbsp; I made it fairly easy, so most 'young race' characters would have access to at least a little divine magic.&nbsp; Doing so gives a feeling of the gods being many and varied and directly involved, which is nicely polythiestic.&nbsp; However, it also means that each character is generally devoted to only one god, which is very un-polytheistic...</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Tony Vargas, post: 371875, member: 996"] IMC, I used polytheism, but with the odd twist that the gods were relatively new to the world. Most of the PC races are 'young,' having been around for only a few tens of thousands of years, and the 'elder' races claim that the gods simply didn't exist before (though whether the gods created the young races, or began apearing when the young races started worshiping them is left up in the air - as are a lot of other things). In spite of that, there are various creation myths. For the pantheons, I liberally stole and corrupted names from RL mythology, including greek, roman, egyptian, babylonian, & zoroastreanism, with the fictitious deities only bearing a faint resemblance to thier namesakes. ... I also drew inspiration from Glorantha, which has already been mentioned, specifically the prevelence of individual cults dedicated to each god. Mechanically, I took the Cleric's bonus Domain spells/powers and granted them to any character who was sufficiently devout and Initiated into a mystery cult. I made it fairly easy, so most 'young race' characters would have access to at least a little divine magic. Doing so gives a feeling of the gods being many and varied and directly involved, which is nicely polythiestic. However, it also means that each character is generally devoted to only one god, which is very un-polytheistic... [/QUOTE]

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