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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Demetrios1453" data-source="post: 7134000" data-attributes="member: 6801060">Well, a quick comparison between the FR deities and Greyhawk deities from 3e (the last edition we have good data to make a comparison) comes up with 69 human deities for the Forgotten Realms (including the 10 from the Mulhorandi pantheon) and a whopping 86 human deities for Greyhawk (including the 6 Olman deities, but not the 13 "hero deities", which is a rank the Forgotten Realms doesn't even have). Non-human and monstrous deities are virtually the same for both settings (the dwarven, elven, and, especially, drow pantheons have differences, but in the end FR only gains a couple more deities here, unless we count the hero deities, in which case Greyhawk comes out ahead). SCAG has 48 human deities for the Realms, adding Asmodeus and a few previously dead gods, but most of the previous demigods are currently MIA (with no indication if they are still there or gone), so we don't know what the current number may actually be. So a multitude of deities is certainly not just a Forgotten Realms exclusive when it comes to D&D!(This of course only covers the Flanaess and Faerun; although we could get a reasonable count for the gods of Kara-Tur, Zakhara, and Maztica, I don't think we have enough detail to accurately enumerate the deities of the rest of Oerik to allow us to make a fair comparison.)</blockquote>