there was a pantheon I wasn't able to fully expand during a campaign that already ended, but basically the players would eventually confront the gods and find out that mortal souls are just vessels from which the gods feed once they die, and then they are reincarnated to start the cycle again, the idea being that they fed from their experiences and emotions, which would motivate them to put them through hardships and to also give them rewards, the more intense the emotions the more they would feed the gods, maybe each god could feed from a specific emotion more so they'd basically become the god of fear, the god of joy, the god of sorrow, etc
Thanks to these 2 videos, I have 2 magic systems and 3 pantheons. These have already developed a very unique world setting than I have done before. The 2 magic systems are based on Knowledge versus Wild casting. The 3 pantheons are based on Greek/Celtic, Norse/Celtic, and Celtic beliefs. The Greek/Celtic pantheon is based on Salvation and Knowledge. The Norse/Celtic is based on war and dominance. The celtic pantheon is based on nature. I cannot wait for the next video and will work on how this video has altered the previous work on the magic systems and the world, itself. Thanks. Guy. for these insightful tutorials.
Ancestral worship would be another type, praying to your ancestors for guidance and help. I also agree with having too many gods. I love the Dragonlance series, but with all the gods built in, only a portion ever really come up and seem to have any influence/bearing on the happenings.
Sciens is a religion today, its hard magic rule set, but its a kind of magic sending things on other planets, shooting form handguns accuratly for 2km away....
If you're a cleric, you need a god. If you're a paladin, you need a god. But everyone should have one they at least lean towards. In my games i encouraged all my players to pray every day. They would simply pray/ask for something, anything, and then do a d100 charisma check. Generally, overwhelmingly, nothing ever came of it. But sometimes God was listening...
You might not, there's plenty of clerics/paladins who are devoted to a concept. I really like how Markus Heitz did it. In his world, the gods aren't obvious, but he also never claims they don't exist. Basically it's up for everyone to believe it or not
But nowadays it has been made possible to play atheist cleric and paladin who don't get their powers from the deities and spirits but from the universe and the cosmos itself.
I feel that many gods provide guidance to the seekers of the world, but they often bring their own agendas with them. Many people in Real Life, some gamers included, do not wish to have to toil for the answers to their "life questions" but would much rather be told, instructed, guided. Whether or not this "turns off your brain" is one thing; I ask "does it turn off your heart, too?" In a game where the players are indeed interested in moral matters, matters of alignment, matters where doing the right thing matters (there's that word again!), I think it is the gods that often appear as the most ancient and powerful of examples of all things the players might wish to experience... or even become.
Angels & Demons could just be extensions of the gods as lesser fragments that exist to enforce the will of the god they came from (kinda like how all Daemons are just aspects of the 4 Chaos Gods in Warhammer)
there was a pantheon I wasn't able to fully expand during a campaign that already ended, but basically the players would eventually confront the gods and find out that mortal souls are just vessels from which the gods feed once they die, and then they are reincarnated to start the cycle again, the idea being that they fed from their experiences and emotions, which would motivate them to put them through hardships and to also give them rewards, the more intense the emotions the more they would feed the gods, maybe each god could feed from a specific emotion more so they'd basically become the god of fear, the god of joy, the god of sorrow, etc
Thanks to these 2 videos, I have 2 magic systems and 3 pantheons. These have already developed a very unique world setting than I have done before. The 2 magic systems are based on Knowledge versus Wild casting. The 3 pantheons are based on Greek/Celtic, Norse/Celtic, and Celtic beliefs. The Greek/Celtic pantheon is based on Salvation and Knowledge. The Norse/Celtic is based on war and dominance. The celtic pantheon is based on nature. I cannot wait for the next video and will work on how this video has altered the previous work on the magic systems and the world, itself. Thanks. Guy. for these insightful tutorials.
Ancestral worship would be another type, praying to your ancestors for guidance and help.
I also agree with having too many gods. I love the Dragonlance series, but with all the gods built in, only a portion ever really come up and seem to have any influence/bearing on the happenings.
Sciens is a religion today, its hard magic rule set, but its a kind of magic sending things on other planets, shooting form handguns accuratly for 2km away....
People also worship it like religion
If you're a cleric, you need a god. If you're a paladin, you need a god. But everyone should have one they at least lean towards. In my games i encouraged all my players to pray every day. They would simply pray/ask for something, anything, and then do a d100 charisma check. Generally, overwhelmingly, nothing ever came of it. But sometimes God was listening...
You might not, there's plenty of clerics/paladins who are devoted to a concept.
I really like how Markus Heitz did it.
In his world, the gods aren't obvious, but he also never claims they don't exist.
Basically it's up for everyone to believe it or not
But nowadays it has been made possible to play atheist cleric and paladin who don't get their powers from the deities and spirits but from the universe and the cosmos itself.
I feel that many gods provide guidance to the seekers of the world, but they often bring their own agendas with them. Many people in Real Life, some gamers included, do not wish to have to toil for the answers to their "life questions" but would much rather be told, instructed, guided. Whether or not this "turns off your brain" is one thing; I ask "does it turn off your heart, too?"
In a game where the players are indeed interested in moral matters, matters of alignment, matters where doing the right thing matters (there's that word again!), I think it is the gods that often appear as the most ancient and powerful of examples of all things the players might wish to experience... or even become.
Angels & Demons could just be extensions of the gods as lesser fragments that exist to enforce the will of the god they came from (kinda like how all Daemons are just aspects of the 4 Chaos Gods in Warhammer)
Devils are entities mascarading as gods.
Perhaps demons are extra planar entities
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