Which Pantheon do you use?
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my last homebrew world had a triad of gods (siblings, actually), who were Lawful Neutral, Neutral Good, and Chaotic Evil. The NG goddess was technically the most "powerful" of the three, but also the one least interested in getting involved in mortal affairs. she mainly stood as an arbiter between her two brothers.
these three gods were worshipped under different aspects and guises (to use Psion's terms) by all the various cultures and races of the world.
these ranged from cultures who revered all three about equally, to one who worshipped each god divided into three distinct aspects apiece (thus having nine gods), to those who worshipped one god to the exclusion of the others.
over much of the central area of the campaign world, worship of the LN god was dominant and vaguely resembled medieval Islam.
these three gods were worshipped under different aspects and guises (to use Psion's terms) by all the various cultures and races of the world.
these ranged from cultures who revered all three about equally, to one who worshipped each god divided into three distinct aspects apiece (thus having nine gods), to those who worshipped one god to the exclusion of the others.
over much of the central area of the campaign world, worship of the LN god was dominant and vaguely resembled medieval Islam.
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Nifft
Penguin Herder
Homebrew. The "Big Six" are detailed here:
http://klimt.cns.nyu.edu/~fishman/DnD/religion.shtml
... but there are many local Powers, and there are some who follow the One Light (mono-theistic-ish, beleive that all visible Powers are merely aspects of the One Light).
-- N
http://klimt.cns.nyu.edu/~fishman/DnD/religion.shtml
... but there are many local Powers, and there are some who follow the One Light (mono-theistic-ish, beleive that all visible Powers are merely aspects of the One Light).
-- N
Brennin Magalus
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In my campaign there are two deities, one good and one evil. However, the evil deity is imprisoned so his clerics are somewhat handicapped. In addition, there are cultists who worship demons and druids who worship nature (as a non-sentient force).
Flexor the Mighty!
18/100 Strength!
I use the Greyhawk campaign setting, circa 1983 boxed set, so I use the gods from that setting. The standard "D&D" 3.xe pathenon is based on Greyhawk, but since they have decided that Cuthbert is LN I refuse to admit it's the same set of Gods.
Plus Hieroneous doesn't use a damn sword like he's shown doing in the D&Dg.
Plus Hieroneous doesn't use a damn sword like he's shown doing in the D&Dg.
ForceUser
Explorer
But he's not bitter or anythingFlexor the Mighty! said:
Lighten up, Flexor. There's always rule zero.
Me, I tend to use homebrew pantheons. The major group of gods are based on the Seven Heavenly Virtues and are worshipped together in a single faith that generally mimics the medieval Church. As a counterpoint, I have an Old Faith of druidic worship which the Church has generally supplanted. Lifting an idea from Eddings, my Arabic pantheon is called the Thousand-and-One gods, and the demihumans/humanoids I use generally worship the appropriate PHB deities.
The overriding theme when designing the faiths of my homebrew was to make the various religions distinct and easy to remember for players who don't take a lot of notes.
Quasqueton
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Way back, a couple decades ago, when I first started playing D&D, we had no named gods. Clerics were holy warriors, and the whole gods thing was ignored.
Then I saw the Greyhawk gods being statted and described in Dragon magazine. I and a couple of my Players liked these gods, so they became the (default) gods for my homebrew campaign.
Later, when I was doing more indepth work on my homebrew, I discarded the Greyhawk gods, and created a long list of my own gods.
Occasionally we split play between my homebrew world and the World of Greyhawk (1983 box). When in my world, my gods. When in WoG, GH gods.
When starting my latest campaign world, I played around with creating new gods. I had several neat ideas for a pantheon, but I also wanted to keep things simple for bringing in a whole new group of Players.
At that time, I was regularly reading a story hour about a campaign that took place in a homebrew world. But the gods were the Greyhawk/generic gods from the PHB. It occured to me how easily the GH gods as listed in the PHB worked into any standard D&D campaign. Everyone playing the game and reading the story hour knew Farlanghn and Pelor and Hextor as easily as they knew clerics and fighters and monks.
The concept of a paladin of Heironious is now as natural to comprehend as an evoker wizard. The names of Nerull and Obad Hai are as generic for D&D as the names Mordenkainen and Bigby. The GH/generic gods were a fine match for a standard D&D campaign.
So, I decided to just accept the PHB gods into my new campaign. I have now fully integrated the PHB gods into my campaign world as if I had created them myself. They fit just fine, and the gods are one less thing new Players to my campaign have to read up on to enter play.
And most players I have met recently don't know anything about Greyhawk anyway, so they have no concept of these gods outside the PHB.
Quasqueton
Then I saw the Greyhawk gods being statted and described in Dragon magazine. I and a couple of my Players liked these gods, so they became the (default) gods for my homebrew campaign.
Later, when I was doing more indepth work on my homebrew, I discarded the Greyhawk gods, and created a long list of my own gods.
Occasionally we split play between my homebrew world and the World of Greyhawk (1983 box). When in my world, my gods. When in WoG, GH gods.
When starting my latest campaign world, I played around with creating new gods. I had several neat ideas for a pantheon, but I also wanted to keep things simple for bringing in a whole new group of Players.
At that time, I was regularly reading a story hour about a campaign that took place in a homebrew world. But the gods were the Greyhawk/generic gods from the PHB. It occured to me how easily the GH gods as listed in the PHB worked into any standard D&D campaign. Everyone playing the game and reading the story hour knew Farlanghn and Pelor and Hextor as easily as they knew clerics and fighters and monks.
The concept of a paladin of Heironious is now as natural to comprehend as an evoker wizard. The names of Nerull and Obad Hai are as generic for D&D as the names Mordenkainen and Bigby. The GH/generic gods were a fine match for a standard D&D campaign.
So, I decided to just accept the PHB gods into my new campaign. I have now fully integrated the PHB gods into my campaign world as if I had created them myself. They fit just fine, and the gods are one less thing new Players to my campaign have to read up on to enter play.
And most players I have met recently don't know anything about Greyhawk anyway, so they have no concept of these gods outside the PHB.
Quasqueton
Varianor Abroad
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Using anywhere from one god to a dozen regional pantheons per each Land. This is a in vast setting where each Land is a fantasy world, a stop along the Winding Road (cosmology inspired from Manual of the Planes.) However, there's a city at the center of those Ways. The rulers of the city are ascended humans called Divines, who are often echoed or shadowed in the mythology and religions of a given Land. Even though the Divines frequently walk amongst their own families (the Houses), they are gods among gods. There's also a separate duotheism of Lady Bright and Father Night that is said to be precursors to the Divines.
