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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Upper_Krust" data-source="post: 9523764" data-attributes="member: 326">Doesn't make logical sense to me - in RPG design terms that is.Religions (in D&D terms 'Pantheons') need to have a degree of parity or some reason why they wouldn't get bullied and conquered by rival Pantheons. That's another good reason why all the Pantheons are relatively equal.This plays out far more in the pages of Marvel comics than D&D since the game presents a status quo rather than an ongoing narrative (adventures aside). In one such Marvel story (approx. Thor issues 391-400 ) the god Set takes control of the Egyptian Pantheon and tries to conquer Asgard, one of Set's trump cards being that he has imprisoned Bes the God of Luck to influence battles, so the Asgardians are effectively 'rolling with Disadvantage all the time' we might say.Therefore a Monotheistic god that was beholden to no other gods MUST be powerful enough to at least put up a fight against an entire Pantheon of Gods, otherwise it will be easily conquered/defeated/overthrown and its worshipers absorbed or scattered by the victorious Pantheon. Now it might have been the case that the Canaanite Pantheon WAS on par with others; but Yahweh absorbed the Divine essence of the other main gods (relegating them to Saints/Angels/Demigods etc. ). But either way that influx of power would have increased Yahweh's Divine Rank.I don't think a Monotheistic God would be powerful enough to one-shot the likes of Thor or Zeus through sheer force. So we know the power differential is maybe 2 'steps' better than Greater God (in the Demi - Lesser - Intermediate - Greater chain) . That seems enough to give any Pantheon of attackers pause because Yahweh would likely slay a bunch of Greater Gods before being taken out. Large numbers of Demigods or Lesser Gods won't be a threat, so really the pressure will be on the Intermediate and Greater deities. Throw in Divine Realm defenses and Home plane advantages and having a Monotheistic god 2 divine steps' beyond Zeus seems a very good fit.</blockquote>

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