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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Voadam" data-source="post: 9405631" data-attributes="member: 2209">I have generally been a big fan of gods and mythologies in D&D starting with the evocative art and different pantheons of the <a href="https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/110198/deities-demigods-1e?affiliate_id=17596" target="_blank">1e Deities and Demigods</a> and 1e Gods of Greyhawk dragon articles continuing into the fuller descriptions of gods and religions in the 2e Forgotten Realms god books such as <a href="https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/17569/faiths-avatars-2e?affiliate_id=17596" target="_blank">Faiths & Avatars</a> that even include god antics during the Time of Troubles that come across as cool myths, and the multiplicity of religions in the <a href="https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/28474/eberron-campaign-setting-3e?affiliate_id=17596" target="_blank">Eberron Campaign setting</a> and the evocative mythology of the 4e Dawn War.Often D&D has different gods but religion is basically clerics and a church. Druids were sometimes present as an old faith but left very vague on specifics. FR made druids specifically alt clerics with different class powers. Eberron has probably the most fleshed out druid stuff with multiple factions and roles that are specifically different than a cleric.I have studied a bit about different real world religions both contemporary and ancient and I was a bit disappointed in the 3e Dragon articles on individual Greyhawk gods and the Pathfinder god articles, by Sean K. Reynolds. He tends to turn everything into a variant medieval catholic church version of a religion with each god having a specific creed, specific holy book, specific holy days where everyone gathers for a sermon in a church, etc. which is very different from the polytheism of say Hinduism or what we know of the ancient Greeks and Romans or the fantasy polytheistic religions in Conan and Lankhmar.I really like the Eberron version of having multiple different religions in D&D, ancestor reverence, specific druidism, pantheon based, cult based stuff, blood of vol, etc.</blockquote>

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