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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mephista" data-source="post: 7127267" data-attributes="member: 6786252">Racial dieties were always.... odd.   Like, in Greyhawk and FR, you had "general" gods.   Were they the human pantheon?  Area pantheons?  What?  They just didn't quite make sense to me.  On the one hand, I do like the idea that different cultures had different gods.  Elves had different cultures, ergo different gods.  But?  This became all elves, irregardless of local elf culture, or all dwarves, irregardless of culture, etc.  It became very odd.Like others have mentioned, all in all, this is a very human-centric view of the different planes, and it rubs me the wrong way.   Its a kind of implicit fantasy racism that feels off.  Its like the cliche of the going to viist a generic town.  What kidn of town?  Invariably human one.</blockquote>