The Problem with D&D Gods (and how to make your own)

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  @hookshot320 · 2 years ago (edited)

  Fun, potentially live-saving tip: It's funny you bring up the "no service" thing in horror movies, because even if your phone says no service you can still call 911 and have it work. Cellphones ping off every tower, not just their own provider's network, because of this they are legally required to let emergency calls go through on ANY tower it can ping off of. Even if it's out the network and you have "no service."

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  @ggoodaysir · 2 years ago

  imagine being a god and an animated hat starts clowning on you like this

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  @LadyTsunade777 · 2 years ago

  One good explanation I&apos;ve seen for having <i>huge</i> numbers of gods in a setting, with many or even most overlapping, is: different cultures incidentally worshipping the <i>same deity of a thing/concept but in their own ways.</i><br>For example, maybe culture A that lives near the peaks of a mountain range worships Icaros, the handsome young man God of the Sun; while culture B that lives in the deep shadowed valleys and into the underground worships Scoura, the sun-bleached elderly woman Goddess of the Sun; and culture C across the ocean worships Phlrgl, the radiant sunfish God of the Sun; BUT these are in actuality all the <i>same singular entity.</i>

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  @onimonkey · 2 years ago

  For the fellow Umberlee lovers, in one game I ran, the temple of Umberlee was decorated with water filled glass coffins that people were drowned in. In the main chamber, Umberlee spoke through the mouths of the drowned dead.

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  @Thunderscreamer · 2 years ago

  I love how you made a whole video warning against gods as “Plot Contrivances” without ever saying “Deus Ex Machina”

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  @infohippie · 1 year ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AwT2GC2pe4&amp;t=933">15:33</a> The thing about D&amp;D having so many gods is that many of them are from different settings. You&apos;re not meant to use ALL of them in one campaign world. If you play Greyhawk, you use the Greyhawk-specific gods. If you play Forgotten Realms, that has its own set of gods. Same goes if you&apos;re running a campaign on Krynn, of &nbsp;the Dragonlance setting. And if you&apos;re running a homebrew campaign world then you can pick whichever &quot;official&quot; gods you like, and mix-and-match with your own homebrew gods or ones taken from outside D&amp;D altogether.

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  @Atlas3060 · 2 years ago

  I recall one homebrew I was especially proud of. It involved Life and Death&apos;s gods being a married Halfling couple. Life was the mother, always cheerful, always wanted to feed her children (the world&apos;s people) but also one who would talk to her husband about someone&apos;s passing. Her husband, Death, was a rather dour faced grump of a Halfling but never really mean. He knew someone&apos;s end scared them, so he took it as a stern but loving father approach to let you know the end was happening.<br><br>A new death experience or something like reincarnation could be something as simple as them talking over a kitchen table while you sat between them, as if parents wondering what to do with a naughty child. Death telling his beloved, &quot;This one&apos;s time is now sweat pea.&quot; while she patted your hand to settle you down and say &quot;Ooooh but pumpkin, this little one really does need to say goodbye to their spouse, please, just at least one last message?!&quot;<br><br>She knew her husband&apos;s work was important, it created room for hers, but like all creators it was sad to see her babies go. He loved how she built things, but also knew he had to put things away when their time was done. There was no struggle for ultimate power in the cosmos, there was simply hot apple stellar pies, the smell of sweet weed grass from Death&apos;s pipe, and a crackling fire you could admire while they weighed your options if you were a soul of great significance to them.

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  @mythshaper5053 · 2 years ago

  When I was creating my homebrew setting I made it on the surface seem like there were hundreds of gods, but if players actually dig deeper into the lore they would find, for example, that no there are not 40 ocean gods, there are 40 cultures that all have a different name and interpretation of a singular ocean god.

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  @TMThesaurus · 1 year ago

  Real polytheistic religions have way more gods than D&amp;D does. The problem isn&apos;t that D&amp;D has too many gods; it&apos;s that it has a completely unrealistic understanding of what polytheism actually looks like.

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  @Halophage · 2 years ago

  Shinto has a quintillion gods, but you also have to remember: each one of those gods has multiple faces, and many of those gods are secretly the same guy.

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  @EgoreTR13 · 2 years ago

  &quot;Lesser Deities have no gyatt, L rizz and get mogged by Sigma, Intermediate and Greater Gods... Skibbidi.&quot;

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  @dman1456 · 2 years ago

  &quot;How do I make this relatable to brain rot...?&quot;<br><br><b>*proceeds to attack your mind in multiple atrocious and unforgivable ways*</b>

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