Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sundragon2012" data-source="post: 3753171" data-attributes="member: 7624">I never understood the whole attraction to a culturally (even faux culture) bereft, aimless, hodgepodge of dieties from wildly different societies that we are all at least peripherally familiar with. This familiarity makes it very difficult to not see Odin and Anubis being in the same pantheon as wildly inappropriate. The name familiariy works against players and DMs who desire versimilitude in a setting but not those who prefer settings that are merely life support for dungeons.Personally I think its a lazy choice to just grab gods from the real-world willy nilly based on some name familiarity. Fictional gods can be done right in books like the 2e FR deity books (the names escape me) and the more recent Book of the Righteous by Green Ronin. The Book of the Righteous is THE benchmark for what a book detailing fictional deities could be if handled in an internally consistant and sound manner.Plus, at least with fictional gods you can tailor their stories to fit their standing in the pantheon. With real world deities, it takes a lot of work to set them to specific alignments without bastardi*ing and sanitizing their mythologies, in the case of ancient deities given a good alignment, til nothing of the powerful mythic character remains save a name.Sundragon</blockquote>