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<blockquote data-quote="BiggusGeekus" data-source="post: 1768392" data-attributes="member: 1014"><p>I'm not sure I can help you but I can babble inchoherently about any given D&D topic, so maybe you can find some gems in this dross to point you in a given direction.</p><p></p><p><u>My feelings on pantheon design</u></p><p></p><p>* <strong>Limited portfolios.</strong> I can't stand gods with five or six spheres. What's the point of that? What choice is the player making? Why not just open everything up and let the player pick whatever he wants?</p><p></p><p>* <strong>No evil gods.</strong> How exactly would these last? Zombies eat brains. Who wants a cleric around that makes zombies? Unless you're in a <em>Midnight</em> like setting where evil has won, why wouldn't the good and neutral folks gang up on evil and smack it around like a pinata? Unless, of course, the neutral gods are from <em>Dragonlance</em> and try to keep good and evil in perfect balance (because apparently endless crusades are cool). Also, how do all those chaotic evil clerics get along? I'd hate to be at one of <em>thier</em> pot-luck lunches!</p><p></p><p>* <strong>People don't trust unkown gods</strong>. Gods in D&D give tangable power to people that are otherwise big chumps. I don't care if your god is called "The Happy Space Unicorn of Rainbows", if I never heard of your diety I'm not going to be in a welcoming mood. </p><p></p><p><u>Exceptions to the above</u></p><p></p><p>* <strong>Destan is cool</strong>. Destan has a thing where all his gods have Good, Evil, and War as domains. This creates a nice arena for conflict. Also, clerics can say that they are the <em>good</em> cleric of the Happy Space Unicorn and not an evil one. That jibes with me. People would come to trust the diety, but not the individual messengers, much like they would with wizards.</p><p></p><p>* <strong>Small gods</strong>. Otherwise known as the players-get-what-they-want church. I always let PCs make up their own faith if they want to. Note, however, that I don't allow evil PCs in my game and I really discourage chatotic neutral ones. If you let evil PCs in your game, don't use this option or you'll be overrun with junior satanists.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Just my two cents.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BiggusGeekus, post: 1768392, member: 1014"] I'm not sure I can help you but I can babble inchoherently about any given D&D topic, so maybe you can find some gems in this dross to point you in a given direction. [u]My feelings on pantheon design[/u] * [b]Limited portfolios.[/b] I can't stand gods with five or six spheres. What's the point of that? What choice is the player making? Why not just open everything up and let the player pick whatever he wants? * [b]No evil gods.[/b] How exactly would these last? Zombies eat brains. Who wants a cleric around that makes zombies? Unless you're in a [i]Midnight[/i] like setting where evil has won, why wouldn't the good and neutral folks gang up on evil and smack it around like a pinata? Unless, of course, the neutral gods are from [i]Dragonlance[/i] and try to keep good and evil in perfect balance (because apparently endless crusades are cool). Also, how do all those chaotic evil clerics get along? I'd hate to be at one of [i]thier[/i] pot-luck lunches! * [b]People don't trust unkown gods[/b]. Gods in D&D give tangable power to people that are otherwise big chumps. I don't care if your god is called "The Happy Space Unicorn of Rainbows", if I never heard of your diety I'm not going to be in a welcoming mood. [u]Exceptions to the above[/u] * [b]Destan is cool[/b]. Destan has a thing where all his gods have Good, Evil, and War as domains. This creates a nice arena for conflict. Also, clerics can say that they are the [i]good[/i] cleric of the Happy Space Unicorn and not an evil one. That jibes with me. People would come to trust the diety, but not the individual messengers, much like they would with wizards. * [b]Small gods[/b]. Otherwise known as the players-get-what-they-want church. I always let PCs make up their own faith if they want to. Note, however, that I don't allow evil PCs in my game and I really discourage chatotic neutral ones. If you let evil PCs in your game, don't use this option or you'll be overrun with junior satanists. Just my two cents. [/QUOTE]
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