Menu
News
All News
Dungeons & Dragons
Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition
Pathfinder
Starfinder
Warhammer
2d20 System
Year Zero Engine
Industry News
Reviews
Dragon Reflections
Columns
Weekly Digests
Weekly News Digest
Freebies, Sales & Bundles
RPG Print News
RPG Crowdfunding News
Game Content
ENterplanetary DimENsions
Mythological Figures
Opinion
Worlds of Design
Peregrine's Next
RPG Evolution
Other Columns
From the Freelancing Frontline
Monster ENcyclopedia
WotC/TSR Alumni Look Back
4 Hours w/RSD (Ryan Dancey)
The Road to 3E (Jonathan Tweet)
Greenwood's Realms (Ed Greenwood)
Drawmij's TSR (Jim Ward)
Community
Forums & Topics
Forum List
Latest Posts
Forum list
*Dungeons & Dragons
Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition
D&D Older Editions
*TTRPGs General
*Pathfinder & Starfinder
EN Publishing
*Geek Talk & Media
Search forums
Chat/Discord
Resources
Wiki
Pages
Latest activity
Media
New media
New comments
Search media
Downloads
Latest reviews
Search resources
EN Publishing
Store
EN5ider
Adventures in ZEITGEIST
Awfully Cheerful Engine
What's OLD is NEW
Judge Dredd & The Worlds Of 2000AD
War of the Burning Sky
Level Up: Advanced 5E
Events & Releases
Upcoming Events
Private Events
Featured Events
Socials!
Twitch
YouTube
Facebook (EN Publishing)
Facebook (EN World)
Twitter
Instagram
TikTok
Podcast
Features
Top 5 RPGs Compiled Charts 2004-Present
Adventure Game Industry Market Research Summary (RPGs) V1.0
Ryan Dancey: Acquiring TSR
Q&A With Gary Gygax
D&D Rules FAQs
TSR, WotC, & Paizo: A Comparative History
D&D Pronunciation Guide
Million Dollar TTRPG Kickstarters
Tabletop RPG Podcast Hall of Fame
Eric Noah's Unofficial D&D 3rd Edition News
D&D in the Mainstream
D&D & RPG History
About Morrus
Log in
Register
What's new
Search
Search
Search titles only
By:
Forums & Topics
Forum List
Latest Posts
Forum list
*Dungeons & Dragons
Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition
D&D Older Editions
*TTRPGs General
*Pathfinder & Starfinder
EN Publishing
*Geek Talk & Media
Search forums
Chat/Discord
Menu
Log in
Register
Install the app
Install
The
VOIDRUNNER'S CODEX
is coming! Explore new worlds, fight oppressive empires, fend off fearsome aliens, and wield deadly psionics with this comprehensive boxed set expansion for 5E and A5E!
Community
General Tabletop Discussion
*Dungeons & Dragons
Racial Deities
JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding.
You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly.
You should upgrade or use an
alternative browser
.
Reply to thread
Message
<blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 7127670" data-attributes="member: 29398"><p>I've always had racial pantheons, being a mix of published D&D ideas plus my own creations and tinkerings, with the specific intent of each race having enough deities covering enough alignments that a player could play a Cleric of almost any alignment in almost any race if so desired. (there's still a few gaps but nothing game-breaking) Humans have cultural pantheons (Norse, Greek, etc.). Monsters have...well, whatever they have. Nobody ever bothers asking. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p><p></p><p>Behind the scenes, and unknown to some players and nearly all characters, the trick is that many of these so-called deities are in fact each just aspects of something bigger. There's only 21 true deities in my system - 5 major and 16 not-quite-as-major - plus a few independent things that have bugged their way into the system over time (this is in place only to allow design space for the extremely remote possibility that a PC somehow manages to find a way to ascend to divinity).</p><p></p><p>And yes, every culture uses a different calendar. Complicating things is that my world has 2 moons with vastly different cycle lengths (one is 20 days, one is 80); some cultures use one, some the other, and some neither to base their 'month' on; and none of them have the same count of years as each has a different 'year 0'. For simplicity I as DM simply picked one of these calendars at the start of the campaign and said "this will be the standard one we'll use for play purposes"...and so the entire campaign has thus far been dated in Elvish. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p><p></p><p>Lanefan</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lanefan, post: 7127670, member: 29398"] I've always had racial pantheons, being a mix of published D&D ideas plus my own creations and tinkerings, with the specific intent of each race having enough deities covering enough alignments that a player could play a Cleric of almost any alignment in almost any race if so desired. (there's still a few gaps but nothing game-breaking) Humans have cultural pantheons (Norse, Greek, etc.). Monsters have...well, whatever they have. Nobody ever bothers asking. :) Behind the scenes, and unknown to some players and nearly all characters, the trick is that many of these so-called deities are in fact each just aspects of something bigger. There's only 21 true deities in my system - 5 major and 16 not-quite-as-major - plus a few independent things that have bugged their way into the system over time (this is in place only to allow design space for the extremely remote possibility that a PC somehow manages to find a way to ascend to divinity). And yes, every culture uses a different calendar. Complicating things is that my world has 2 moons with vastly different cycle lengths (one is 20 days, one is 80); some cultures use one, some the other, and some neither to base their 'month' on; and none of them have the same count of years as each has a different 'year 0'. For simplicity I as DM simply picked one of these calendars at the start of the campaign and said "this will be the standard one we'll use for play purposes"...and so the entire campaign has thus far been dated in Elvish. :) Lanefan [/QUOTE]
Insert quotes…
Verification
Post reply
Community
General Tabletop Discussion
*Dungeons & Dragons
Racial Deities
Top