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#1 cbensing Jul 06, 2013 22:33:43	I'm sure this topic has been discussed ad nauseam but I'm struggling with it and could use some help.  The world in my homebrew has a very rich and specific history detailing everything from the begining up through current events.  Part of that story are how the deities came to be. This is a topic I have been putting off for some time but really want to tackle it and move forward with the rest of my world.  Right now my players just assume the generic D&D pantheon but I want something unique to my world. I want the pantheon unique to my world with each god having a unqiue story as to how they became a god. I do not want a complex pantheon.  Even the generic D&D pantheon has way to many deities for my personal taste. My struggle is how to create the fewest amount of deities that make sense but at the same time covering all the various "things" the denizens of th world typically need gods for. Right now I'm toying with the idea of a deity for each race and a deity for each energy source: arcane, martial, primal, psionic, shadow, and elemental. However, without the more sinister deities defined, I already have more deities that I want. If it helps any, the history that I have written so far basically has two groups of deities: "good" and "evil".  I used parenthasis because Im talking about the two cosmic forces and not D&D alignments.  Within each of those groups.
#2 taradusis Jul 06, 2013 22:54:51	1) a goddess of good, Lawful,Neutral and Chaotic worshippers.. 2) a god of evil, Lawful, Neutral and Chaotic worshippers. 3) Nature deity of Elementals. 4) arcane deity is replaced by a philosophy of Magic. 5) War deity is replaced by giving the good and evil deities the War domain. 6) Psionics is a philosphy,needs no deity? 7) shadow deiety rarely seen?
#3 cbensing Jul 07, 2013 8:48:52	1) a goddess of good, Lawful,Neutral and Chaotic worshippers.. 2) a god of evil, Lawful, Neutral and Chaotic worshippers. 3) Nature deity of Elementals. 4) arcane deity is replaced by a philosophy of Magic. 5) War deity is replaced by giving the good and evil deities the War domain. 6) Psionics is a philosphy,needs no deity? 7) shadow deiety rarely seen? Thanks Taradusis.  Your suggestions got me to thinking.  I could organize the deities as you laid out, assign the generic deity portfolios \ domains to each one and then differentiate by having those few gods manifest themselves to the mortals in different ways. For example: Lillania goddess of good, lawful, and chaotic worshippers.  I would assign any portfolios \ domains to her that made sense.  Then depending on the race worshiping her, she would manifest herself in different ways.  A dwarven cleric would know Lillania as a dwarf.  A human paladin would know her as a human.  And so on...  That way I can keep my pantheon simple but still have plenty of flavor. With regards to Psionics and Shadow, I dont necessarily need a god.  Psionics especially.  Its more of a philosphy.  I may leave Shadow for when I get to incorporating the planes into my world.