Which Pantheon do you use?

[GrayIguana]

I use a set of homebrew pantheons. The gods in my world are in continual strife but most have formed their own set of tribes or pantheons. The pantheons so far are the Scaled (Reptilian), Celestial (Nature), Law (Gods of Civilization), Hive (Thri-Keen), Night, Giant, and Dragon. I try to have them be more like superpowerful NPCs, or like the fical gods of the Greeks, rather than beings who are only interested in a specific set of powers or portfolios. In fact, I have so far shied away from creating statistics on them.

 

[Varianor Abroad]

Has AU impacted your mythology at all?

The details that I gave were from my Terminus Est 3.# message board game. I'm running a different F2F AU game using The Diamond Throne setting. Religion is not the same there, so I left that out of the original post. AU is impacting the TE game now as I add elements to that, but not the mythology.

On a different note, my Terra Incognita game from a few years back used Christian monotheism in an alternate fantasy history.

 

[Voadam]

My campaign started out greyhawk with those gods (including nonhumans like Gruumsh and Lolth) plus greek ones. At one point it went to the nine hells with Asmodeus then on to a Celtic world with that pantheon. Then into Ravenloft which has its own deific rules and pantheons including the Egyptian and Hindu ones. Later a group came in from a Greek world, and later a player from FR and Dark Sun, with a brief excursion into Dragonlance and some interference from the Odin figure in Hollow World. And some consider Baba Yaga a deity as well.

So yes a multi-pantheonic cosmology for my game.

 

[Voadam]

In the one I currently play in, my character started out with a viking background and swears by the Norse gods but has traveled from world to world, seeing many cultures and religions. He is currently on a Ptolus, postapocalyptic Greyhawk, home brew world where the Greyhawk pantheon are the "Old Gods" the cosmology from the Banewarrens is dominant, and there are a number of homebrew deities (such as our dwarven cleric's dwarven earth god) and some imported ones (Vhaerun).

 

[Ysgarran]

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 huma

Ditto, probably the main variation I've made on the BotR is the introduction of a more explicit being that plays the roll of a demiurge. There is also a heavy dose of animism thrown in that everything does have a 'spirit'. Large cities all have their own patron spirit that gains strength from the locals paying homage.

 

[Xagunder MacFaileas]

The dualistic pantheon in my homebrew campign is not actually good vs. evil, but rather a Lawful death god vs. a Chaotic life goddess.

For the epic game I'm in, we have all sorts of gods in all sorts of places.

 

[Arnwyn]

I'm glad this poll had multiple choices.

The pantheon I use is from "Other" (published campaign setting - FR) that includes two or more pantheons in the same world, including a bunch that are local to a specific region, and a few homebrews of my own. (So, 4 different selections in the poll.)

 

[WayneLigon]

In the first 3E game we did, we used the pantheon straight from the book to minimize what we had to write out and figure up. When one guy runs FR we, of course, use the FR pantheons.

In every other case, though, we make our own pantheons from scratch (just like Mom did!). Different regions may concentrate on different gods. They may have their own pantheon.

Indeed a couple of us who used to play RuneQuest many years ago will have multiple pantheons in a world, each claiming to have created the world and be the god of so-and-so. And they are all equally correct.

 

[Gundark]

We don't play in FR but we use the FR pantheon...just cause they are so darn cool...

 

[MarauderX]

I was also wondering after looking at some of the results, whether anyone would like to post a hashed-out deity or two if you have the time.

P.S. Does anyone know which Dragon issues cover additional/alternate pantheons?

~MX