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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Li Shenron" data-source="post: 1241225" data-attributes="member: 1465">First I used only the 19 D&D gods on the PHB plus other D&D gods named in the MM and DotF.Then I thought I wanted to have more order, for merely aesthetic reasons, in the pantheon, and I tried to incorporate some FR deities and some homebrewn deities to fill the "gaps": I was looking to have a triad of Ancient deities (distant, uncaring and whose existence was known by few adepts) who created the universe, a group of 9 major deities (the currently strongest deity of each alignment, depending on the moment) and then lesser deities and a few demigods (always ascended mortals or deity/mortal offspring which didn't grant spells). I was looking to have some balance in the cosmos, so that largely approximately there should have been as many Good deities as Evil ones, and as many Lawful as Chaotic).At the end, I felt like there was not point for the effort. After all, in our campaigns there is absolutely no need to know all the gods and their politics, since the only time it is really important to know about a deity is when someone plays a Cleric, and in which case it is important to know only one deity at a time. Therefore, currently I let my PCs worship any deity they like from D&D/Greyhawk or Forgotten Realms books, but I prefer to disallow (if it ever comes up) deities from historical sources such as the greek/roman, the egyptian or the nordic gods, just to keep D&D somehow very separated from real myths.</blockquote>

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