RotRAP Deity Question - Demihumans?

[Ernest Mueller]

Is the intent that all the demihumans also worship the list of gods in the list? Or are there separate "demihuman pantheons"? If so, when might we get a look at them?

Thanks,
Ernest

[Dances With Worgs]

Ernest Mueller wrote:

Is the intent that all the demihumans also worship the list of gods in the list? Or are there separate "demihuman pantheons"? If so, when might we get a look at them?

I can't recall where exactly, but I have a vague recollection of seeing somewhere that the intent was to keep the pantheon small and world-related rather than race-related, have everyone worship the same gods, but maybe put their own spin on them (i.e. the Dwarven depiction of Desna may be shorter and dressed differently, but its still Desna).

Then again, I may be completely wrong...

[Ernest Mueller]

I definitely wouldn't mind that, most D&D worlds suffer from the "way too many major deities" syndrome. Although in that case the domain lists could use a little expansion because there's a lot of domains out there not represented by one of those deities...

Dances With Worgs wrote:

I can't recall where exactly, but I have a vague recollection of seeing somewhere that the intent was to keep the pantheon small and world-related rather than race-related, have everyone worship the same gods, but maybe put their own spin on them (i.e. the Dwarven depiction of Desna may be shorter and dressed differently, but its still Desna).

Then again, I may be completely wrong...

[James Jacobs]

Demihumans certainly have some minor gods that only they worship, but for the most part, the 20 core deities are the ones worshiped by most folk in the world, human, demihuman, or monster alike.

[tbug]

Ernest Mueller wrote:

I definitely wouldn't mind that, most D&D worlds suffer from the "way too many major deities" syndrome.

It's a problem inherent in the rules. According to the SRD, once you have three hundred people worshipping you then you become a god. Granted, you only have Divine Rank 1 and need to get more worshippers to increase in rank, but I figure that once you actually are a god it's probably easier to convince people of it.

Over the summer I've been running a Wussiest Gods Ever campaign, wherein a bunch of first-level PCs save a colony of land barnacles from goblin and kobold raiders and get worshipped as gods for their troubles. So they have one level (some of them made it to two, though not yet the torch-bearing commoner/god of fire) and one divine rank. It's been educational. :)