How many gods is to meant?
>>96375458What role/use they have in the game/story.You don't have to describe all of them and just keep it as a useless piece of background info and a way to slide whatever you need when you need it unless you're just uselessly obsessing about the idea like most people who "worldbuild" tend to do.
Depends on your purpose. Writing a novel? Include exactly as many as is relevant to the narrative, either as a focus of the plot or as a passing part of the world.World-building? As many as you damn well please, technically, but be aware that any facet of your setting with too many moving parts is going to drive the will for any players to seriously interact with it down. For gameplay purposes, only include or promote to players the gods that are relevant to your quest(s) or game mechanics. Soft maximum should be a nice round number like a dozen.Starting a cult irl? Go crazy. THEN include as many gods as you want (lololol). In actual human spirituality as far as I can observe, one god is way too many and uncountable millions are far too few. If you wanted to make a truly realistic pantheon, then religious thought in your setting would be a cacophonous crossfire of intersecting sectarianism with divinities coming out the wazoo and no consensus whatsoever on the meaning of the fucking vocabulary let alone the doctrines, myths, and rules. This is all irrespective of the reality of the existence of the gods or not, I might. We all have heads of state we can see and touch, yet still nobody agrees on which ones are legitimate or what they're supposed to be able to do or whether they're the good guy or the bad guy, so fuck it why should the gods be any different even if they bothered to talk to people more often? Some churches have one god of the entire universe. Others have a god under every tree and rock. Go. Crazy. You'll need it.
>>96375544I like how there's exactly zero advice for games.
>>96375721I like how you have the reading comprehension of a dyslexic nigger.
>>96375772He fits right in the that with the illiterate OP, then.
>>96375721>For gameplay purposes, only include or promote to players the gods that are relevant to your quest(s) or game mechanics. Soft maximum should be a nice round number like a dozen.Your brain must have been rotted.
>>96379143You should play some, they'll make you less of a sandy cunt.
>>96375458I don’t know what’s right for your game, and your game but I stole the pantheon from Dragon Ball for the space fantasy game I run. Gods don’t really play a big role but I wanted to be ready in case the campaign ever gets there. Players mostly just assumed to be a barely practicing Space Shintos, but religious characters can select from a few different religions.At the top of the hierarchy is the Mutliversal God-King.The Multiversal God-King is attended to by a host of lesser gods as administrators.Each individual universe has three high gods, a god of Creation, Destruction, and Time.The god of Creation is attended to by four heavenly kings, each one ruling over a specific concept; Civilization, Emotion, Life, and War.Each universe has its own Afterlife Check-in Station, run by a bureaucracy of demigods and lead by the Judge of the Dead. The judge decides where souls go after they die. Those ruled as going to Paradise or Hell are sent off to their respective check-in stations, and the rest are reincarnated back to the nearest still habitable planet from the one they died on.Heaven and Hell connect to all of the universes, but have their own individual High Gods and Sheriffs who maintain peace and order. The Sheriffs of hell also make sure that the Demon Realm which connects to the lowest level of hell, never overtakes it. There are also four intermediary gods for each universe who govern the four cardinal directions of their respective universes.Each individual world inhabited by sapient life has its own god-king. Some are more hands on than others, some have opposing demon kings, etc. Each planetary god also has jurisdiction over a small portion of its universe’s hell.Then finally there are countless local lesser god who are just spirits who are powered by faith.
>>96379449Damn, that's pretty nice. *Looks around* I'm taking this.
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>>96379533You never take me alive.
>>96375458What are some things that there should definitely be gods of after the big shit like War, Magic, the Sky, the Earth, Death/the Underworld, and Love/Fertility? And what are some interesting ways to group those domains, like having a god who has both Love and War as domains?
The replies to this thread are fascinating, because OP is fucking incoherent. It's not a real question or even a proper sentence and yet there are these fucking automatons rattling off vapid responses like something understandable was asked. This place is all just bots these days, huh?
>>96382999>wasted trips.Humans have the ability to infer intent from incomplete data sets. It's kinda the hallmark of having a meat-based brain.
>>96375458The Greeks believed in many gods: more than 3000 appear in the ancient sources.
>>96383014Even if you understood OP's intention, why bother with such a pointlessly stupid thread? You think some illiterate chimp is going to benefit from some vague worldbuilding advice?
>>96383116Vague? I did a direct breakdown of how the celestial bureaucracy works in my campaign. I find life is a lot less shitty if I just take things at face value instead of being a jaded cunt who goes out of his way to shove pessimism into other peoples faces.>>96382896Dragon Magazine #283 (which is on The Eye and Archive Org) has a couple articles for that with a lot of surprisingly good historical context for their reasoning.
>>96383246And in what world would that breakdown be useful to someone who doesn't play any games?
>>96383248Why don't you just play some games, then?
>>96375458For my world I was planning to have 4 major gods, alongside maybe a few subordinate/child gods, each aligned with one of the four classic elements, and other spheres of influence thematically tied to said elements. The Fire god would also be the god of War, and possibly also the god of Love, just to name one example. What other spheres of influence work for each element?
>>96379746Who the heck carries sand in their pocket, lol? besides a god of the desert of course.
>>96388064The God of Arlen, TX. Though once he got the position, he deny it as he couldn't see how he should be able to become a god.
>>96375458Two because there is only one.Allah.
>>96375458What are the most important things to consider when creating gods? Especially if they actually exist in-world?
>>96388367That's a story. Details please?
>>96389415>>96389475>>96390506>>96392599>>96392969kill yourself bumpfag
>>96389859Start by building your pantheon, as per how your system of choice uses gods. Even if you're not a D&Drone, the article mentioned in >>96383246 has a lot of useful information.After that, you need to think about their religions work in a vacuum and as a combination. No believable setting has a bunch of random gods whose followers don't interact.Create subgroups of gods, such as Gods of Law or Elemental Gods who are allied in a way where their priests are almost indistinguishable to the common man.If the gods are beings the players will interact with, directly or through their agents, you need to think about their personality quirks the same way you would for an NPC who matters.Gods are, basically, the ultimate NPC even in really high powered settings where they're killable.
>>96383034Don’t forget the Ancient Egyptians, I think I heard once that they believed in just as many, if not more.
>>96399998goddess of giraffes and fisting
>>96375458What are some settings that both have a reasonable number of gods/pantheons and do a good job depicting said gods? I’d suggest TES does a good job, do you agree or disagree?
>>96405654Anon, there are only eight Divines
Bump
>>96403961>goddess of giraffesGiraffes? Regardless, who would win in a fight, her or Quetzalcoatl?
>>96392969(Dale basically ran as Mayor during COVID and won. However he couldn't believe he could win and called it rigged and deny the results saying a system that could let someone like him win couldn't be trusted.)
>>96411608How DID he win, just a lack of voters? I swear I've read a story about a god with a similar mindset...
>>96414424Funny enough, he won due to his anti-mask policies. Though to be fair there were like 14 people running and he only got 9% of the vote but still that was more than anyone else now.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otCOnd6271w
>>96405737SUCK MY FUCK KNIFE EAR
>>96416812Yeah, we see that Altmeri propaganda!
>>96375458I always liked to draw symbols like this. 4 cursive swoops interconnected.
>>96382999>one (1) singular (not plural) typo>anon: THIS OP IS INCOMPREHENSIBLE GIBBERISH I CAN'T UNDERSTAND ANY OF IT HOW ARE THESE ESL BOTS REPLYING?!
>>96426747Sounds based, post some please?
>>96407913>the amwf franchise
>>96429155>the amwf franchiseThe what? I searched Google and got nothing for that acronym.
>>96375458One.
>>96435705>One.That implies that a setting should have NO gods.
>>96437487that's the joke retard
>>96426244Isn't their goal in denying his divinity the destruction of the world, IIRC?
