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<blockquote data-quote="rbingham2000" data-source="post: 2609618" data-attributes="member: 12947">Ray Winninger in his Dungeoncraft articles once upon a time said that it's important not to force yourself to create more than you need at once, and to include a secret for each major element of the setting that you introduce.One of the elements that I really liked from the first setting that Ray introduced was deities that had more than one aspect when it comes to alignment. Apart from the regular life-giving aspect of the earth goddess in that setting worshipped by most clerics of that goddess, there's also a dark destructive aspect of that goddess that's worshipped by evil clerics who want to destroy things. I like this approach because it frees me to create deities that are more complex than is suggested by a given alignment, and because it's easy to introduce some controversy between two or more different factions of the same god, each of which focuses on a particular aspect of the deity in question.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="rbingham2000, post: 2609618, member: 12947"] Ray Winninger in his Dungeoncraft articles once upon a time said that it's important not to force yourself to create more than you need at once, and to include a secret for each major element of the setting that you introduce. One of the elements that I really liked from the first setting that Ray introduced was deities that had more than one aspect when it comes to alignment. Apart from the regular life-giving aspect of the earth goddess in that setting worshipped by most clerics of that goddess, there's also a dark destructive aspect of that goddess that's worshipped by evil clerics who want to destroy things. I like this approach because it frees me to create deities that are more complex than is suggested by a given alignment, and because it's easy to introduce some controversy between two or more different factions of the same god, each of which focuses on a particular aspect of the deity in question. [/QUOTE]

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