Henadic Theologian
Legend
None evil Orcs in FR don't worship the Orc pantheon usually, they worship God's like Eldath or Zakharan Gods usually. Maybe locally popular human Gods.
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Many many species in my campaign follow "other" species' gods.
Edit: meant to add that the elven (imc) goddess Sune is multi-species, many dwarven godds are followed by my "vikings", etc.
Parmandur
Book-Friend, he/him
I liked the 3E Deities & Demigods approach (not that they would do this today with real historical deities), where they provided a setup for an Olympian or Asgwrdian campaign setting where the pantheon covered everyone in the world: so Artemis would appeal to Wood Elves, Hepheatus to Dwarves, etc. without being exclusive.
Probably not a coincidence that the same writer, James Wyatt, was responsible for the coherent Dawn War cosmology.
Tonguez
A suffusion of yellow
Just wondering why do you have species gods if they arent specific to any particular race?
Whenever I've used single pantheon I've allowed all species to worship any god but they might depict their particular aspect of the god differently - the Beast god might take the form of a Wolf amongst humans, a Crocodile amongst Lizardmen or a Giant Boar amongst Orcs, different forms but the same Divine concept
Voadam
Legend
I could see multiple reasons.
Most species specific pantheons work as just a pantheon in a multipantheon system. If it is a general collection of gods non-dwarves could be culturally into Moradin and his family as well as dwarves, perhaps from having historical ties to dwarven cultures.
In a pantheon a god could be a patron of a species and also of other things that others venerate. Correlon in 4e is the creator of the elves but he is also the general god of magic and has many non elven worshippers. Moradin and crafting is the same way as a patron of dwaves and non-dwarven crafters.
They all have different creation myths, origins, and philosophies, so you find them MAINLY within the species culture, but over time syncretism has occurred. And individuals can choose for themselves of course.
As a further example, 90% of elves don't worship/follow gods, their philosophy/pantheon is a group of paragons that emphasize a trait and to be emulated/inspired by. However, some elves do worship these paragons, and that has spread to other cultures.
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