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<blockquote data-quote="cbwjm" data-source="post: 9309234" data-attributes="member: 6788732">I think a large part of the weird worship a singular god of a pantheon in DnD settings is down to presentation. They do mention that people make offerings to the various gods of the pantheons but these statements are often hard to find and they then turn around and make clerics followers of a singular god. However,&nbsp; it's not like we didn't have priests of specific gods in the past, I know of examples from Roman and Ancient Egyptian sources, though I believe in Rome these were somewhat political positions (if someone knows more, happy to be corrected).&nbsp; In ancient Egypt priests would, for instance, be priest of Amun and serve in that temple but I'm sure that they'd still be making offerings to other gods.What the various DnD settings really needs is to create faiths which are made up of pantheons so that you aren't a follower of Helm but a follower of the Cormyrian Immortals (made up of various gods that represent their values, and a few others that might be acknowledged as the dark gods which are great for cultists to follow). You can still have the gods as known entities, but instead of trying to gain followers from other gods they can try to get them from other pantheons.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="cbwjm, post: 9309234, member: 6788732"] I think a large part of the weird worship a singular god of a pantheon in DnD settings is down to presentation. They do mention that people make offerings to the various gods of the pantheons but these statements are often hard to find and they then turn around and make clerics followers of a singular god. However, it's not like we didn't have priests of specific gods in the past, I know of examples from Roman and Ancient Egyptian sources, though I believe in Rome these were somewhat political positions (if someone knows more, happy to be corrected). In ancient Egypt priests would, for instance, be priest of Amun and serve in that temple but I'm sure that they'd still be making offerings to other gods. What the various DnD settings really needs is to create faiths which are made up of pantheons so that you aren't a follower of Helm but a follower of the Cormyrian Immortals (made up of various gods that represent their values, and a few others that might be acknowledged as the dark gods which are great for cultists to follow). You can still have the gods as known entities, but instead of trying to gain followers from other gods they can try to get them from other pantheons. [/QUOTE]

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