My issue is that I grew up with D&D and various other RPGs of the same ilk, and I have most times always ran with the concept of a polytheism religion as D&D. A collection of gods, and pantheons, that all inhabit a known world. Various cities and people have their own faith, and there are clerics of these faith, very strait forward. I basically ran it like the clerics where representatives of their gods will, and the gods had a hand in the worlds actions. This was many years ago. Since then I have only been running a horror/world of darkness Gurps game, but recently I have been moving back into fantasy in Gurps, no DF though. I now run a very large world that is basically adventure fantasy, semi “kitchen sink’ish” with many faiths, yet the gods are aloof and act through their clerics on very rarely directly.
But now I am starting to rethink my very old concepts of faith and the “simple way of D&D” and how they should work.
On the world currently I have various faiths, such as: THE ELDER Gods of The OakenFather [very odin/nature god and keeper of a Pantheon of Norse like gods], the Raven Queen [Death/change/Winter], The GrayLady [Time/Destiny/Fate], and Palor [Healing/Sun/Strength/Life, semi catholic like]. Then I have various Newer Gods such as: Rivin [Night time, thieves, thresholds, murder], Boccob [magic for magics purpose, scholars and sages of magic], Wee Jas [Judges, sorcery, fire, watchman, and law keepers of magics use, burial rites and crypts], Celestin [Oracles, masters of vaults of lore], The Wanderer [Travel, roads], Tyche [luck], The Red God [very Crom], The Crone [Very Hecate/The Moon], Taltos [War, conflict, strength], The Watcher [dead god of knights, nobility, and guardians, still worshiped a lot], Amandor [Wealth, trade, cities, civilization], The Dawnflower [Healing, goodness, renewal, redemption, fire], Sune [love, passion, beauty], Zahire [Very Set like]. And many others that have not been introduced yet into the game like.
My main quandary is that these faiths should not coexist correct, at least peacefully, right? I was brought up and cut my teeth on faiths all living basically happily as D&D showed it, but in truth there would be conflict. There would be actions like “who is the true god”, or a whole nation only allowing the worship of “their god”, and no other. Or an NPC not speaking to a PC cleric due to him not recognizing that PCs faith as a “real” faith, and so on. Or one god of fire, and another god of fire, and how worshipers of one faith would treat the worshipers of the other “True and Only” fire God.
I would like to know how you all run your worlds with a polytheism or monotheism faiths, and how they interact ? thank you!
But now I am starting to rethink my very old concepts of faith and the “simple way of D&D” and how they should work.
On the world currently I have various faiths, such as: THE ELDER Gods of The OakenFather [very odin/nature god and keeper of a Pantheon of Norse like gods], the Raven Queen [Death/change/Winter], The GrayLady [Time/Destiny/Fate], and Palor [Healing/Sun/Strength/Life, semi catholic like]. Then I have various Newer Gods such as: Rivin [Night time, thieves, thresholds, murder], Boccob [magic for magics purpose, scholars and sages of magic], Wee Jas [Judges, sorcery, fire, watchman, and law keepers of magics use, burial rites and crypts], Celestin [Oracles, masters of vaults of lore], The Wanderer [Travel, roads], Tyche [luck], The Red God [very Crom], The Crone [Very Hecate/The Moon], Taltos [War, conflict, strength], The Watcher [dead god of knights, nobility, and guardians, still worshiped a lot], Amandor [Wealth, trade, cities, civilization], The Dawnflower [Healing, goodness, renewal, redemption, fire], Sune [love, passion, beauty], Zahire [Very Set like]. And many others that have not been introduced yet into the game like.
My main quandary is that these faiths should not coexist correct, at least peacefully, right? I was brought up and cut my teeth on faiths all living basically happily as D&D showed it, but in truth there would be conflict. There would be actions like “who is the true god”, or a whole nation only allowing the worship of “their god”, and no other. Or an NPC not speaking to a PC cleric due to him not recognizing that PCs faith as a “real” faith, and so on. Or one god of fire, and another god of fire, and how worshipers of one faith would treat the worshipers of the other “True and Only” fire God.
I would like to know how you all run your worlds with a polytheism or monotheism faiths, and how they interact ? thank you!
Polytheism in fantasy Question
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