D&D 4E Who / What will be the main gods of 4E?

[Jefe Bergenstein]

You fill holes in the game setting pantheon. This can be needed in settings that have more ground to cover than the civilizations of the original myths. The Norse pantheon, kept intact, is great for a setting mostly focusing on raiding and battle, but leaves many ‘godly gaps’ in most other settings.

In the Norse setting trickery is bad, someone makes a fool of you and blood may get spilled or the harsh environment may do you in. Thus their god of trickery, Loki, is notability a bad guy.

Now if you want a ‘middle of the moral road’ trickster, Coyote may be of more use or maybe grandfather Raven.

If a god fits, use it.

Any benefit is quickly cancelled out by confusion, loss of myth, and just a general feeling of laziness. If you're going to grab fromm all over for the same pantheon, just change the name.

I know, theres a new Justice League show coming out. Lets have Superman be a fat guy with a magical baseball bat, Green Lantern and Wonder Woman the same as the comics, Aqua Man a guy who can turn into water and shoot geysers and Batman actually be Spiderman. But its still cool cuz of name recognition, right? I mean, everyone knows who Superman is, who cares if its out of context and doesnt make sense!

Hoenstly, giving some examples of various gods filling various roles would be more helpful to new DM's. Want a jerk trickery god? Use someone like Loki. Want a hero trickster? Heres Anansi, Coyote, etc. Or hell, just refer em to Book of the Righteous.

 

[Arashi Ravenblade]

Godzilla
Pun-Pun
Superman
Cthulhu
Chuck Norris
Master Chief
Oscar the Grouch
Celine Dion and. . . Sephiroth

 

[Sundragon2012]

Corellon seems to be taking The Fey god role. Kind of like Oberon and Queen Titania rolled into one... Lets hope It gets better art than last time

Oh my god....I just realized that Correllon is actually...

David Bowie, the Thin White Duke.

Sundragon

 

[Scholar & Brutalman]

Oh my god....I just realized that Correllon is actually...

David Bowie, the Thin White Duke.

Elvis, the Immortal King
Keith Richards, the Thing that cannot Die
John, Paul, George and Ringo, the Fab Four of the Apocalypse.
Hendricks.

 

[SpiderMonkey]

Vin Diesel
Stephen Siegal
Jean Claude Van Damme
Billy Blank
Emo Phillips
MacCully Culkin
The "Where's the Beef" Lady
and Grace Jones

Let's not even get into a discussion about alignment here.