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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cor_Malek" data-source="post: 5306510" data-attributes="member: 91608">My preference is to have cleric come up with who their god is, and if he believes that there are others. I treat PHB table of deities as template, and list of gods as filled examples. Of course everyone is more than welcome to worship gods who's followers have major organizations in homebrews we're playing in <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":P" title="Stick out tongue    :P"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":P" />My reasoning being, that there's only oh so much you can think of when it comes to religion, no matter how special you think it is. Zeus, Jupiter, Thor, Donar. Poteyto, potatoh. So for me, RPG gods come with an area of expertise, alignment and domains. You can go wild with the fluff, and most other clerics of similar deity will recognize that the system is similar, even if name and some pictures are different (not always though, infighting can be fun =) ).I prefer several monotheistic systems instead of polytheistic ones though, for which I use some basic, popular setups (fertile, matriarchal female goddess, a patriarchal lightning-happy LG god, a largely neutral god of roads/winds, etc). It forces the cleric to be more... you know, cleric-ish. You're travelling, do some damn job and help heathens! Recruit someone, fight for your God's good name. If your God wanted to get involved in goblincide, he'd he'd give dogs a poison gland.I like to think of clerics in party as missionaries.To give examples of on the fly adjustment (as I've never used Greek pantheon): Pelor-Apollo, Fharlanghn - Hermes (he'd also cover for  Olidamarra, although this cult would have to be secret), Yondalla-Dionysus and Demeter, Gruumsh and Corellons would be catch-all's for barbarians, Ehlonna - Artemis, Kord - Ares, Moradin - Hephaistos, etc. Whatever's your game <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />I play around with using Gothic cRPG series deities as well - a pretty  much classic, dualism setup: three brothers - Beliar, god of darkness,  Innos, god of light, and Adanos, god of balance. There's plenty of art  and text to use with them, without the need to dwell with real, complex  system.</blockquote>

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