Which Pantheon do you use?

[MarauderX]

Which pantheon do you use? Do you have more than one in your game world? Or just one, but the gods are recognized in different ways?

 

[diaglo]

i let the player choose the god or ideal his character wishes to worship.

at the same time i use all of them for my campaign world. some are more common than others.

 

[Psion]

• I use the WotC demihuman deities, minus thingies that were created specifically for FR, except Eilistrae.
• For human cultures, I use my mutliple pantheons, with some borrowed from myth:
  - My psuedo-celtic culture uses a distillation of Celtic myths, headed up by Danaan.
  - Other pantheons are mostly homebrew, using some figures from myth, mainly Finnish (Loviatar [more a goddess of disease than the FR spin], Meilikki, Ukko, Ahto).
• Some deities have aspects or guises in different pantheons. Guises are the same deity, different name. Aspects are the slightly altered essence of a deity.
• I found it too hard to fit Green Ronin's Book of the Righteous in directly, but use them as "Old Gods" and am using them for different lands.
• Using Plot & Poison's spin on the Drow Deities, but added Eilistrae. Added Bow & Blade's five-in-one deity as an alternate aspect of Rilifane for wood elves.
• I picture many lesser spirits that are revered in some parts of the world, using Shamans as the divine spellcasters in these cases. Essentially, these are rank 0 divinities of the fey, elemental, or outsider type.

 

[blackshirt5]

The god of my world is Led Zeppelin's "Stairway to Heaven".

It's a Dualistic Religion. The Evil Entity is called "Indy Band Cover of Stairway to Heaven."

 

[Wombat]

I never assume there is only one religion in a world...

For my main current campaign, I use a variant on Green Ronin's The Book of the Righteous, but that is for the primary human cultures. Another group of humans (one of the minority cultures) is animistic. The elves and dwarves have heavy variants on BotR pantheons -- dwarves combine many together and elves see the gods in terms of colours and philosophical concepts, rather than embodied beings. Another culture sees the world in Dualistic terms, albeit with a number of demi-gods and "saints".

I never use real Earth religions anymore because they do not fit -- the situations and interactions are utterly different. Equally I make sure that cultures influence each other in my games, thus their religions also bleed over.

There may be planes of existence beyond the planet the players are on, but living humanoids do not go there.

Just quick notes on Wombatian Cosmology 101

 

[ThirdWizard]

I run Planescape. I can't even keep up with the pantheons.

 

[Skade]

My homebrew has several major pantheons and religions. Primarily it is dualistic, a principle good creator and an adversary, but this belief system is broadened by a celestial court that preforms the day to say actions of creation, some of which are worshoped as gods. This is heresy in one religion attached to the pantheon, and encouraged by another. Seperate from this pantheon is a broad group of nature gods worshiped by the nomadic szvagany (gypsy like humans) and the older human cultures. There are remnants of previous ages, a god or two from a mostly destroyed culture that survive. There are several independent gods which do not fall into any of the pantheons as well.

 

[Isida Kep'Tukari]

I use the PHB deities combined with some of the FR deities, along with a few homebrew (one is a goddess of innocence and children, and the others are para and quasi-elemental deities).

 

[Upper_Krust]

All of them.

 

[hunter1828]

I use the Forgotten Realms for my campaign and thus the FR pantheons, plus non-human deities from the 2e Monster Mythology and 3e Draconomicon. I also selectively use deities from the Book of Exalted Deeds, Book of Vile Darkness and Book of Erotic Fantasy (merging them with similar deities if similar deities already exist, or using them outright if similar ones don't already exist).

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