D&D 5E (2014) What's your favourite pantheon?

[jasper]

Black, no brown, no grey . Who cares! As long as my PANTS are ON we good right?

 

[TheSword]

I’m gonna say FR, because I entered the hobby during the time of troubles so it was very real to me. I kind of wish for a time when the FR gods took a more direct hand.

For simplicity sake I like Birthright. I love the old gods/young gods theme and they are broad but cover the full gamut. I also like the way the gods are called different things by the different cultures but are essentially the same thing.

 

[Marandahir]

Legit question here... does that include the actual Pagan Pantheons because they would be real world religions otherwise you're showing a bias against Pagans and non-Christians.

This is a question that interests me too…

What is the line between discussion of real-world pantheons vs discussion of real-world religion?

I'd guess it would be on qualifying real-world religious practices or comparing them as better or worse than one another, but by saying we can talk Norse Gods and Egyptian Gods and Greek Gods and Celtic Gods (which are printed in the 5e PHB!) but not about Levant Gods suggests that the rule only cares to protect practitioners of the latter and not the former.

Or are we not allowed to talk about the above 4 pantheons printed in the PHB because real world people currently worship them?

 

[teitan]

I mean I give offerings and prayers to the Olympians! My wife is very intensely into Norse religion. No we don’t re-enact the Punic Wars. Lol

 

[JohnSnow]

This is a question that interests me too…

What is the line between discussion of real-world pantheons vs discussion of real-world religion?

I'd guess it would be on qualifying real-world religious practices or comparing them as better or worse than one another, but by saying we can talk Norse Gods and Egyptian Gods and Greek Gods and Celtic Gods (which are printed in the 5e PHB!) but not about Levant Gods suggests that the rule only cares to protect practitioners of the latter and not the former.

Or are we not allowed to talk about the above 4 pantheons printed in the PHB because real world people currently worship them?

I suspect the line is that the "fantasy versions" of the pantheons count as discussing "mythology," whereas most discussions of Abrahamic religions count as "religion" because of their ubiquity in modern culture. The religion is sufficiently intertwined with the "gods" that you can't fully separate the two. But discussing the way they handle angels on Supernatural doesn't cross the line.

And yes, there are Pagans and neo-Pagans, but most people know Thor more as a comic book or legendary figure than as a god they actually worship. So discussing those gods in the context of the mythology that's been written about them is fine.

 

[Warpiglet-7]

I find the Greyhawk deities the most interesting.

Arcana cleric (LN) of wee Jass?

Fun and cool flavor. Creepy if you play that aspect up.

 

[WayOfTheFourElements]

I suspect the line is that the "fantasy versions" of the pantheons count as discussing "mythology," whereas most discussions of Abrahamic religions count as "religion" because of their ubiquity in modern culture. The religion is sufficiently intertwined with the "gods" that you can't fully separate the two. But discussing the way they handle angels on Supernatural doesn't cross the line.

And yes, there are Pagans and neo-Pagans, but most people know Thor more as a comic book or legendary figure than as a god they actually worship. So discussing those gods in the context of the mythology that's been written about them is fine.

In other worlds, if it condemned the men of Sodom and Gomorrah to sulfur and fire for "jousting", shut up about it. If it didn't, go ahead and talk about it.

 

[jgsugden]

My favorite pantheon is a total homebrew, but it is not the one I use in y main campaign world. That one is 100 or so Powers, and includes Elven, Dwarven, Greyhawk, Dawn War, Cthulhu, and a few unique creations.

• Ao - The First, the one that created the Universe
• The Light and the Dark - His children, and the ones that started to create the Prime Material Plane.
• Bahamut, Tiamat and Vorel - the Three Dragons and the first three Gods of the Prime.
• The Elder Elemental Gods, who were corrupted by the coming of Cthulhu and are now in his Pantheon (Imix is not Cthuga, etc...)
• the Gods of Greyhawk and Dawn War reorganized into 12 Pantheons of ~4 Gods each, plus a few independent Gods
• The Archfiends, the Demon Lords, the Cthulian Gods, Archfeys, Lady of Pain, Sultan Efreet of the City of Brass, Vecna, the Raven Queen and a few other odds and ends....

• Ao creates the Light and Dark.
• Light and Dark create Bahamut, Vorel and Tiamat.
• They create Dragons and Giants to serve them.
• Some of these Dragons and Giants rise up as the first 12 Primordial Gods.
• More Gods rise up and create Angels, Dwarves and Elves to serve them.
• Asmodeus rebels and creates Devils.
• Cthulhu and the Far Realm corrupt reality, turning some of the Primordial Gods into Cthulhu Mythos beings (primarily the Elder Elemental Evils), and Devils Princes into the First Demon Lords (and many Devils into Demons)
• 15,000 more years of Divine Politics

 

[ProfessorDetective]

Exandrian, Eberron, Mythos, Celtic, Wiccan/Pagan-style Triple Goddesses.

 

[DnD Warlord]

I make my own a lot. Sometimes my players catch on when I crib them from else where...

no one caught on when I took the Kryptionian gods or the Primes from Transforers... when I had 2 pantheons in a world with an uneasy truce a player DID realize one was the 13 member Morison JLA and the other was the MCU avengers team...