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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ferret" data-source="post: 1768558" data-attributes="member: 4052">Small gods, If I kept the dogma suitably vague then different churches can focus on diferent parts, therefore fulfilling(hopefully) the small god idea.Destan, I like the idea that some consider the god of war to be brutish and war-crazy and others confident and comanding. I don't want the gods to be evil or good, rather they might work best, ambiguousPeople don't trust unkown gods, I'm not sure how this would apply but it does make me need to explain the situation, The setting has three (plus significant subrace) races (each began away from the other, two are intergrated with the other), every one knows the same gods. This is unlike D&D where I doubt an orc would know pelor, or a human knows Kiaransalee. This is another reason I might choose them all to be from a dead race, it means that I don't need a reason why Joe [elf] knows about god from Fred [gnome] pantheon; the god is neither [elf] or [gnome]. But then who do the [goblins] worship? It helps that I want them to be much less intelligent. I digress...No evil gods, See above: DestanLimited portfolios, I haven't much to work with, but as I'm not going to make the gods very specific there won't be a god of libraries, good, justice and age. But with maybe fertility, affection, health.On to my thoughtsI should probably explain some more as well, I can see where people are filling in my gaps with expectations of D&D.I want the settings equivalent of gods to have been users of magic that ascended portraying their most obvious traits (for lack of a better phrase). But they are set in stone, those are the gods, the gods are those. I wouldn't feel comfortable letting dieties being created here and there (Same as if I DMed a normal game). Not quite sure why but it doesn't feel right. I shouldn't have used god and ascended interchangably.I might like if one actual god (like the gods from most settings, they are, and have always been.) Who set the others up as god-like beings.Also I used square brackets to indicate a relative idea, as none of the core races exist in the setting I'm building. So when I said elf and gnome I just wanted to show the differences.Things posted after I started writing and missed@WayneLigon: Thats my missing link, "the Ascended have power over nature and people's lives" I didn't think of that. But thinking now.... I don't want a direct influence from worsphiper to ascended, eg when you pray your son does well, he doesn't suddenly get top marks. More like subtle nudges, it should look like what is given could come anyway, from the above example, the child might develop into a strong fighter, or get knack for making pots.In this respect they should be greek-like (yes?), your example seems like what I want. I don't want them to need to be worshiped though, the ascended would give the power to like minded people, so their ideals would be spread. I'll need to think on the above though.@Torm, that setup looks very greek, sex here, zeus doing it there etc. And quite complicated....</blockquote>

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