How To Create a Pantheon for Your Homebrew DnD or TTRPG World [Ep. 05]

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How do you start creating a complete pantheon of deities to rule and harass the denizens of your tabletop rpg or dnd homebrew world? 💥More below!⬇
You’re building a tabletop rpg or dnd5e world and now it’s time to create that homebrew pantheon, a slate of gods and goddesses for the population of your homebrew world to fight over or blame their troubles on. Player characters need something to have faith in and from which to draw power. Beings of light to worship and plead with, shadowy things to bargain and make deals with.
So yeah, you need some gods. And some demi-gods. Maybe some saints and some devils and some celestial family squabbling that leads to world-shattering cataclysms! In this video I’ll share how I’ve gone about creating the pantheon for my homebrew DnD world. And maybe some of these ideas can inspire or help you in creating your own set of tyrannical, power-hungry, soul-eating deities.
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@matterhorn731 Год назад

I feel like "mortals" is the word I'd most commonly use within a game world to refer to humanoids as distinguished from gods, spirits, etc. Obviously there's some fuzziness with elves and warforged and the like, but it feels like a pretty natural term a god or angel or demon might use to refer to all the various races and peoples of the material plane, which could also impact how religious doctrines refer to those races and peoples.

@tabletopalchemy Год назад

Yep great suggestion. From our actual real life perspective I think we’d have to invent a new word if we wanted a “singular” vs “plural” term cause we just don’t have the need for one lol.

@alexandersvideopicks8735 Год назад

“Mortals” works great, especially if any portion of the residents of your particular world, or civilians of that world are not humanoid in appearance, e.g. snake men, lizard folk, insect people, etc…

@tabletopalchemy Год назад

This is exactly right

@tolkienfan1972 Год назад

Perfect!

@tarvoc746 10 месяцев назад

Philosophically speaking, the terms Mortals or Speakers could both work.

@gopro_audio Год назад

You might love Alignment Languages. It's like a Catholics knowing Latin. Then imagine dialects of Latin that match alignments, and those languages craft magical items. Oppositional alignments seek out and destroy magical items in opposition of a belief such as law, chaos, evil, and good.

@tabletopalchemy Год назад

Ooh I like this concept a lot! Great stuff, especially the factions destroying each other’s artifacts!

@shaunhall960 Год назад

Nice!

@garygallimore4620 Год назад

For the pantheon in my game is just took the domain of the god and translated it to latin. Love = Amare, Wealth = Fortuna, Time = Tempus. Keeps it simple and easy to add new gods as needed when they become relevant.

@tabletopalchemy Год назад

I use this same concept for coming up with names, mashing up different language translations of thematic words! Probly another video topic to explore there!

@lumagatto1191 7 месяцев назад

FYI i don't know latin but I am Italian, "amare" means "to love". Idk what it is in Latin, in italian "love" as a noun is said "amore". I am pretty sure in latin "love is said "Amor"

@lordstronghold7189 4 месяца назад

@@lumagatto1191 Yep amare = to love Amor = love.

@trassop6448 Год назад

Possibly Sapients/Sapience or Sentient/Sentience, that'd include non-player races as well that are intelligent.

@tabletopalchemy Год назад

Ooh “sapience” is kinda cool! Yeah I like this direction, thank u!

@trassop6448 Год назад

@@tabletopalchemy 👍 Glad I could help! I just found you and I loved the video!

@tabletopalchemy Год назад

Awesome, glad u liked the vid, much appreciated!

@EarlYager173 Год назад

I would go with The Sapient

@aaronpapke5240 4 месяца назад

When I was recently building my Pantheon I chose to make it deliberately vague, where the individuals more or less spawn the gods through their own sense of being. Emotions made manifest as entities brought into being by the thoughts of people. I didn't realize it then, but this was vague enough and inscrutable enough to allow me to make a deity for any player that needed one that could also grow along with the player. Or have a pre-existing rich and complex history having a lack of details doesn't need to be vague, and having a framework doesn't need to be restrictive. I think the god being connected to cyphers is an absolutely benign and a brilliant idea.

@tabletopalchemy 4 месяца назад

This an excellent approach I love it! Really helps both players and DMs build the world together too, very cool. 🙏🏼🍻

@svlarpstories 2 месяца назад

I like the word "Panspirity" as a substitude to Humanity in this world of yours!

@tabletopalchemy 2 месяца назад

That’s a great one! 🤙🏴‍☠️🍻

@grimmtales503 Год назад

So hard to make gods that feel... godlike. I am thankful that this video is double-size, it is a big topic. Totally Off Topic (ToT?): it is also enjoyable how connected you are to your audience. Please make a top-ten-tip video on how to connect to your viewer. You come across as a Best Friend - and that's impressive for a guy i will not ever meet.

@tabletopalchemy Год назад

Hey, you know what they say: never say never lol. Anyway, that’s mighty kind of you! I’m working on a video for next month that kinda brings up personality types and what mine is, so we’ll see how that goes lol.

@adamcgeller4545 Год назад

You're really good, man. As a presenter and a speaker. I'd be keen to see your other work.

@tabletopalchemy Год назад

Well thanks, much appreciated! I’m always petrified of pubic speaking lol. As far as “other work” what are you referring to? I’m happy to point you in the right direction if I can.

@WintryRPG Год назад

really enjoyed this breakdown! ty youtube for pointing me here :D

@tabletopalchemy Год назад

Awesome, glad u dug it!

@Shards-of-Narsil Год назад

Wow, not only was that one of the best videos I've ever seen it's also one of the best world building videos I've ever seen. Took a chance and it payed off big. Great vid.

@tabletopalchemy Год назад

Well thank you very much, I appreciate the kind words and glad you enjoyed it! 🍻

@MarinaPacowski Год назад

That is just GREAT!! Bravo 🎉!

@tabletopalchemy Год назад

Thanks lol!

@nathanvarade5820 Год назад

Mortals/ Mortality it’s a fitting name for the sentient races since Divine mortal and Demonic can represent three “layers of existence” to help split everything up.

@tabletopalchemy Год назад

Yeah I’m liking the stratification!

@Frederic_S Год назад

The worldbuilding video realy is a blast!

@tabletopalchemy Год назад

Thank you!

@michaelmullenfiddler 5 месяцев назад

You really should check the world of Harn. The gods of Harn are very well developed

@tabletopalchemy 5 месяцев назад

I will do so, thanks!

@daneshansigamoney6215 Год назад

Man how I have I missed this channel. This is awesome. Thanks for the great content. Just subscribed

@tabletopalchemy Год назад

Thank you, much appreciated!

@eoinmccormack1940 Год назад

An interesting video! I made a pantheon for a game world I've been working away on and I approached it from my background in history and languages. I drew a lot from the gaelic mythological cycles and from the stories of invasion cycles in Ireland. I like that they turned out more like the feuding squabbling gods that are seen in old myths but there's always room for improvement so thanks very much for the ideas.

@tabletopalchemy Год назад

Awesome!

@Dagg58 Год назад

I like the term Sapients, or a derivative there of, even though it's in our own scientific name, it means "thinking". So any denizen species can be referred to as such. You can also add gatekeeping aspects to that term, if so inclined to create inequities in your world that can be used for world flavor, story hooks, or commentary, much like how "white" is used to make in/out groups of political/social power with the line moving to include or exclude those the "higher" species deem "thinking".

@tabletopalchemy Год назад

Good suggestions!

@renatobfa Год назад

Inteligent creatures

@helixxharpell 5 месяцев назад

What if a TTRPG world setting was based on the "zoo hypothesis"? Where the gods (beings of a higher level of consciousness) were invited to repopulate a world that was decimated by a cataclysm by the only god that remained? And the governments that evolved on that world were all theocracies? How long would those theocracies last before being overthrown? That's the premise behind our new Kickstarter campaign entitled, "Khor The World of Many Portals." Kickstarter campaign in 2025. Look for it!

@tabletopalchemy 5 месяцев назад

Awesome! I will make a note to check it out, and best of luck with it!

@helixxharpell 5 месяцев назад

@@tabletopalchemy Thank you! We're hoping to hook up with content creators out there to help further their channels as well. A strong community prevents big corporations from dominating the algorithm. 🫡😉

@helixxharpell 5 месяцев назад

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@tabletopalchemy 5 месяцев назад

Lol bless the algorithm! But just FYI ttrpg specific content is only part of what I do on here, so ymmv lol. 🏴‍☠️🍻

@helixxharpell 5 месяцев назад

@tabletopalchemy Well, I'm subscribed now so let's see what that dreaded algorithm does! 😉

@tabletopalchemy 5 месяцев назад

@helixxharpell lol much appreciated!

@helixxharpell 5 месяцев назад

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@tabletopalchemy 5 месяцев назад

@helixxharpell lol copy that!

@HelicopterShark Год назад

Word to replace Humanoid.... "Materian" My suggestion for a word to either replace the typical "humanoid" creature type or be another type to refer to a collective of races of DND. Now it's actually very obvious and I'm trying to convince myself that it's to simple but honestly I think it only needs to be used to make sense. So you think of people from a country as a label that plays on the name of the county. It's not so much just the location they live but something used to describe what they have in common with others who share the title that other who don't go by the title do NOT share. An Australian living in America is still an Australian and you get the picture. I didn't have to explain they have some form of citizenship of Australia, you understand that from the use of the word. In comes my word that describes most of these creatures by an origin point they have a strong connection to... the "Material Plane" Just like Pixies and Satyrs are different races but can be collectively called Fey for their connection to the Feywild. Materian is both singular and generic plural although in some cases it can feel natural to add an "s" suffix for plural. That Materian Man, The Materian People, Those Materian. Why base it on Material Plane? Because other broad creature types can often be associated with a plane even if they can differ within that category, Celestrial, Demon, Devil. With Monstrosity being "other" or "Eldrict" in nature

@tabletopalchemy Год назад

Ah very interesting, I like this use of the planes. Pretty cool!

@geoffchurchill5492 8 месяцев назад

maybe because intelligence is the defining factor, go with sentient beingsperhaps?

@tabletopalchemy 8 месяцев назад

Yep this probly about as close as I can get 🍻

@SecretSquirrelFun Год назад

Physicalness. Physicality. Physicalist.

@tabletopalchemy Год назад

A physicalist sounds like a new character class! I might use that lol.

@Leapyean Год назад

Sapients

@brutal6653 Год назад

I think a great term better than Humanoid would be Races. It's simple however, then there's war forge and centaurs but they can be easily put in their own category like Mythical Beasts and Constructs. This term may be flat, but it's simple.

@brutal6653 Год назад

you could also use Racial for describing stuff like "Racial Personality", like I said it sounds ridiculous.

@tabletopalchemy Год назад

Yeah! It’s a tough one for sure. “Races” vs “humankind” … I think I’m struggling to find a singular descriptor vs a plural one but it may not be possible lol. I’m gonna look into some possibilities with races as a starting point. 🏴‍☠️

@joven_drawsart Год назад

Anthropormorphic is a good word, it's still to an extent human centric but I usually use it in a sense of a crature that holds great intelegience or presents with inteligent/social behaviors such as wearing clothes, talking or walking up right

@joven_drawsart Год назад

So the greyzone of athro creatures or anthropity(an-thraw-pih-tee

@tabletopalchemy Год назад

Anthropity - good one!

@masterroshi1015 Год назад

Bi-pedal ,collective hierarchical command structure with dilutions of grandeur? Robbed and apated from the TNG episode "The Nth Degree" featuring Lieutenant Barclay lol

@tabletopalchemy Год назад

Lol - Best. Suggestion. Yet. 😂

@etiennes4470 Год назад

Sentients

@scroletyper8286 10 месяцев назад

How far the apple falls from the tree

@tabletopalchemy 10 месяцев назад

The ever-present question!

@alejandrogangotena9033 Год назад

I call them "sapients" rather than humanoids

@tabletopalchemy Год назад

Yep I’m digging this

@EssentialNPC Год назад

I enjoy listening to you. One of my favorite things is that I don't have to be watching the video; I can just listen to it while I do work. Also, we have a similar thought process when it comes to D&D. Cheers!

@tabletopalchemy Год назад

Awesome, much appreciated and I’m glad you dig the content!

@mathmusicandlooks Год назад

The “go with the flow” creativity exercises really help! When creating my pantheon, I had at one point randomly had the thought of a monastic order following the “journey of a thousand mis-steps.” I pulled on that thread and eventually came up with a god whose followers prize proactivity and learning from one’s own experience above all. Their order is very involved with community service, and are often sought ought for advice. They always reflect back to a person what they feel or what they want to hear. No matter if it is good advice or bad advice (and it is very frequently bad advice), either way a person is going to learn from their experiences. What matters is that they make a decision and do something. My players have had a lot of fun with the temple following this god they’ve come across. After being set up, thrown in prison, and busting out, they found a stable belonging to this temple. They met an NPC inside they’d met once before tending to the horses. They all told with with their firmest convictions that they felt like taking the horses for no cost was what they really should do. The NPC about crapped his pants and ended up running away, completely unable to come up with any doctrinal argument against them. 😂

@tabletopalchemy Год назад

Lol a perfect recipe for true anarchy! Very interesting the whole monastic order! I’m just starting to work on some religious factions for my world and now strange monks will almost certainly be included lol.

@thedoctor6265 Год назад

we called them sapiens

@WolfKingAdam Год назад

This was awesome! Really loved the way you presented it. I've had issues coming up with pantheons in the past so having someone break down their process really helped.

@tabletopalchemy Год назад

Awesome, I’m glad it was worth watching lol, thanks!

@tyruskarmesin5418 Год назад

Maybe “Mortals” or “The Mortal Races”? Or something like “The Peoples”.

@tabletopalchemy Год назад

“Peoples” is an interesting concept to run with, I like that. I was trying to come up with a singular vs plural term but peoples has a ring to it.

@lennart_glimpsel 8 месяцев назад

just from listening to you talking about your catholic background, gender, and humanity this tactfully, and with respect and insight, i already enjoy this content if only for your character. the way you combine how you work creatively with the concrete example of coming up with a pantheon out of nothing is amazing. I feel like you've taught me stuff on 3 different levels that go far beyond writing for d&d or writing in general. i'm gonna watch more of your stuff and recommend you to my friends for sure.

@tabletopalchemy 8 месяцев назад

Well I appreciate this, I’m glad you enjoyed it! My topics can get a little wide ranging lol hopefully you find some more you like. 🍻

@hungrymatador213 Год назад

I use the term "Namegivers" as a catch-all term for sentient creatures that players can use. This is applied to any type of creatures that are intelligent enough, and conversant enough that they can create and apply 'Names' to things.

@tabletopalchemy Год назад

I got that as soon as I read “name givers”, very clever!

@hungrymatador213 Год назад

@@tabletopalchemy Well I wish I could claim it 100% but I first ran across it in Earthdawn 1e back in 1993 (Greg Gorden) and never stopped using it. Love the channel man, keep up the great work!

@tabletopalchemy Год назад

Thank u, much appreciated!

@nonya9120 Год назад

Geezer here.... Great vid on an often utterly overwhelming subject. Deities, modern and what is often called ancient humans sure seem obsessed with it. No offense to any real world believers, but history shows it often ends up little more than an excuse to commit atrocities. Great game material. At the risk of dating myself here. A question.... Does anyone still allow for characters to "ascend" to "godhood"? Best homebrew pantheons I have come across or had in my own games were always some form of successful adventurers. That said ya got to have something. Not suggesting for example anyone turns their kittens loose with demigods to start. We did that by the way, back about 1978. It was a hooooooot. Gaming on.

@tabletopalchemy Год назад

Lol agreed! The idea of PCs ascending to godhood does ring an 80s bell for me. It’s definitely something to keep in a DM’s back pocket for sure.

@nonya9120 Год назад

@@tabletopalchemy Geezer again... Stormbringer (after eating Elric) made a great big bad, far scarier than anything else any of my characters encountered, were slaughtered by or ran away from... Then too we ended up with a split personality elf that made it to demigod also. Made visiting the "temple" a real cr_p shoot. All things good to you. Gaming on.

@tabletopalchemy Год назад

Lol the split personality crap shoot sounds just about perfect!

@Octa9on Год назад

q.v. Godbound 🥳

@rangleme 10 месяцев назад

For an alternative to "HUMANITY", I've always like "FOLK" - includes any sentient or anthropomorphic beings.

@thunderbird909 5 месяцев назад

I usually use people or peoples when talking about all the “sentient” (playable) races, and if I’m talking about humans I just say humans.

@Stoat2319 11 месяцев назад

Person is the word I use

@Nalfordus 2 месяца назад

could use a vague generic term that still leaves room for more options. "most cultures" could work.

@AmorinJuan 9 дней назад

Late to the party but I use "people" or "folk" or "mortals" interchangeably. And I also run games in Spanish (my native language), I then use "gentes", "personas" or "mortales", also interchangeably. In my settings very few type of creatures are immortals (mostly deity or demideities, and the classic liches or beholders), so "mortals" works great. "people and peoples" also works great, and folk works when adding to the species name.

@tabletopalchemy 9 дней назад

Yeah this is great! I like the “mortals” catch-all and I might use the Spanish word, it’s awesome. 🤙🏴‍☠️🍻

@danielsanders7538 11 месяцев назад

"sentient beings"

@samuelkeding910 10 месяцев назад

Sentient life?

@psychologicalsuccess3476 Год назад

Bipedal

@garryhorvath2648 Год назад

SENTIENTS. There's a word for beings in the grey area.

@TranscendStream Год назад

Great episode! Thanks for sharing how you organize your pantheon! There is some serious fun to be had here. 🤩

@tabletopalchemy Год назад

U should come on the show interview style we could build a trippy pantheon together with all our esoteric conversations lol

@Lucasfenrir 7 месяцев назад

Hello from brazil. Thats what i came out with, after this video and using the basic dnd pantheon as starting point: i thought 7 (m lucky number) gods was enough for campaign, not too much to bother me as a DM, but also not boring or lacking some "domain" of the world. Then i created 3 females , 3 males and 1 hibrid god. I don't see knowledge and magic as domains, so i skipped it. I like thinking that gods are somehow ambiguous and all have your reasons to be devoted and prayed (Stronger on top) 1-Kindred - God of both life and death, light and darkness, love and hate 2- Mirkul - God of war and vengeance, shame and fear 3- Bahamut - God of bravery and honor, hope and justice 4 - Bhaal - God of criativity, god of laughter and madness 5 - Milora - Godness of the Earth, all animals, plants and plagues 6 - Avandra - Godness of the sky and all the stars, of destiny and time 7 - Mana - Godness of all seas and tempest, godness of the lonely and forgotten

@tabletopalchemy 7 месяцев назад

These are great, I like em a lot! A god of loneliness and the forgotten, very cool, lots of flavor there. 🍻

@johnmichaelcule8423 Год назад

Generic names for all sapient life-forms? 'Hnau' is what C S Lewis's Martians used but you probably don't want to use non-English terms. I've heard 'mindkind' but I think it's clumsy. 'Humanoid' is a bit bigoted too. Strictly it means the beings who are human shaped. What's so sacred about two arms, two legs, a head and a torso. Why are you prejudiced against snake people (ophidiform)? Sapient insects like Dr Prilicla in the SECTOR GENERAL novels? Or is it just that you're committed to the inherited implied background of DnD? How about 'people'? (And 'peoples' can also work to mean the various sapient races.) As in: "The people! The things!" "Arthur, the things are also people." "The people! The... other people!" (I too fell into numerology: I ended up with a six-fold pantheon: Mother, Maiden and Crone, and then Father, Son and Uncle which leads to hexagonal shaped temples. The gods' aspects being the facets of a jewel I first came across in M.A.R. Barker's Tekumel supplement THE BOOK OF EIBON BINDINGS.)

@tabletopalchemy Год назад

Six-fold pantheon, very cool! Mindkind is cool but as you say maybe a bit hard to parse, verbally. Yes, I want to come up with a term that is "humanoid" independent (so snake dudes (and dudettes) are included lol). I think the issue for me with "peoples/people" (which is definitely a usable term) is that I'm looking for something to specifically replace the word "humanity" - there is a slightly different connotation/implied "meaning" to that word vs people, races, sentience, sapients, etc. But you know there just might not be one and people will have to suffice lol.

@ZestonN 11 месяцев назад

Elder Scrolls uses Man, Mer, Beast-Folk, Aedra (High Entities), and Daedra (Low Entities). Even within the World of Elder Scrolls, Who Is What is Debatable. Including a Conundrum like that, would enliven your World. :)

@tabletopalchemy 11 месяцев назад

Yeah that’s a good one! 🏴‍☠️

@BardTender_Coel Месяц назад

Just seeing this video for the first time and really enjoyed the content! I use Sentients instead of "humanoids," but also use it to encompass the other DND Races that aren't technically under the Humanoid umbrella

@tabletopalchemy Месяц назад

Nice, I dig that, it’s closest to what I’m going for too. Glad you liked the vid, much appreciated. I cover some pretty random (tabletop-related) topics lol, I don’t wanna burn out on just one thing 😬🏴‍☠️🍻

@Mac_Laoch Год назад

The collective intelligence could just be called " Sentience" or "sentient life"

@michaelmullenfiddler 5 месяцев назад

The whole "triune god" thing can easily be looked ar as a form of polytheism: so, is that one God, or three? Interesting, the thing about a deity having various descriptions, varied aspects, a multiplex of motivations, realms of power, and commandments, because they are essentially reflections of the humans who worship them.

@tabletopalchemy 5 месяцев назад

Good points yup!

@Lubapuppy Год назад

I have two thoughts, the first is on your cry for help. I've also always had the same issue. I tend to use the word humanoid to describe upright standing creatures with opposable thumbs; this is a pretty broad umbrella that is only a physical description (in my use). Calling fantasy and sci-fi races 'races' even irks me, technically it makes more sense to use species but even that's arguable. My 2nd thought is about the 'morally grey' gods. I've always appreciated moral and ethical nuance and perspective. For both thoughts I'm brought back to the most formative video game of my adolescence; Star Wars Knights of the old Republic 2: The Sith Lords. I'm not going to rob anyone of the pleasure of this game (which is actually playable on PC thanks to the restored content mod). But suffice to say that 'grey' morality and philosophy is an enormous theme which scratches an amazing itch when applied to star wars with its usual light and dark dichotomy. In reference to the 'humanoid' conundrum, KOTOR II also gracefully handed me something for that! They never explicitly call humans humans in star wars, but we all kind of 'know' they're humans; actors are humans and so the budget demands humans be in your setting. And in universe when someone at the cantina wanted to remark that I was one of the few 'humans' around the called me a 'sapient'. Sapient is the perfect word for describing thinking species because 'sentient' describes qualities that also apply to animals and beasts. It's a bit bookish, but I think it works for both Sci-fi and Fantasy.

@tabletopalchemy Год назад

Interesting! Yeah, I like “sapience” or “sapients”.

@eddietowers5595 Год назад

I just ran into this channel and found your videos interesting, if I may, Dude! you’re far from having a face for radio, lol, you look like you could be related to actor Paul Gleeson, Principal of “Breakfast Club” fame, brother, son….? The options are endless! Awesome channel. Very Informative, your video look as though they’re of masterclass scenes, specially in the way you convey your subject.

@tabletopalchemy Год назад

Breakfast Club - one of top ten favorite movies of all time! Thank you very much, much appreciated!

@meatKog 2 месяца назад

Perhaps your symbol should be a 90 degree turned Scalene Triangles, with white at the top, grey in the middle and black at the bottom.

@tabletopalchemy 2 месяца назад

Ah, like for a sect that worships the “whole”, interesting🍻

@Writh811 11 месяцев назад

Rather than humanoid I use the term "people".If you are referring to all the various civilized races of your world you would say "all the peoples of magic land" indicating you are identifying multiple groups of people. The term already gets applied to other races "The dwarven people" "the elvish people" and it sounds very... much like a book.

@tabletopalchemy 11 месяцев назад

That’s a decent way to go about it.

@therealdoomsage Год назад

Sapient Species, or 'sapients' (pronounced the same as sapience). Unless you want your animals to have their own gods too, in which case sentient species. Also, speaking of alliteration; S-S-S-Subscribed.

@tabletopalchemy Год назад

Lol love that alliteration. 🍻

@SecretSquirrelFun Год назад

Menagerie. Humanity. Human menagerie. Homosapien. Homomenageian? Oh the humanity Oh the menagerie Ménage. Or the servants of Bacchus - Maenads, or Bacchants ?

@tabletopalchemy Год назад

Menagerie is an awesome word!

@joelwestman8809 Год назад

I use 'person' instead of humanoid. An Orc is a person, but not a human. I'd argue if aliens showed up tomorrow, this would be the most appropriate word we currently have to group us together properly without favouring our own species. But in your case, person would apply to the god's too so it might not fit, but humanoid also leaves out any sentient mortal race without a humanlike body. Sorry slime people, guess you aren't included in the 4 limb club.

@tabletopalchemy Год назад

Yep this is the conundrum. I’m leaving towards some derivative (made up or otherwise) of “sentients”.

@pez5767 Год назад

It's funny to me that since most Fantasy RPGs are medieval analogs (to varying degrees) and yet religion and the influence organized religion would have on a world where Gods are *actually real* is something most games don't feature prominently... just background filler as opposed to a dominant geo-political force in the world.

@tabletopalchemy Год назад

Yes this is pretty true lol!

@therealdoomsage Год назад

"certainly; it's going to work better than mine." You... have either extraordinary luck when it comes to your day to day social interactions, or you have exceedingly few of them. ;)

@tabletopalchemy Год назад

Might be a bit of both lol.

@YodasTinyLightsaber 6 месяцев назад

I use 'mortal' in the World that I am building. I have also seen 'sentient' used in fantasy settings that are more scientific than Medieval/Renaissance Europe.

@tabletopalchemy 6 месяцев назад

Yep keeping it simple is probably best 🤙🍻

@sirnukesalot24 Год назад

How about "the capable races"? Capability implies enough sentience or sapience to competently shape their immediate circumstances and surroundings, while also implying the limit that you're only referring to those peoples within the scope of the material plane. There are all sorts of fun and realistic ways this could erupt into conflict, including arguments about who is more capable and who isn't capable enough. You could even have a well known cautionary children's tale about the fatal fool who thought goblins weren't capable at all, before being subdued by an ambush where he gets his face ripped off! There can even be an idiom said when someone is about to step in it, "the fatal fool is faceless tonight"

@tabletopalchemy Год назад

Oh very nice! I like that idiom too very “world flavorful”!

@TheCmachine2005 Год назад

In contrast with the human centric term "humanoid", you may collectively refer to all combinations of races and all genders together as "Organic Meat Sacks with Sentience"

@tabletopalchemy Год назад

OMSS! Pretty perfect lol. But what about … sentient plants …? OMSSS - Organic Meat Sacks and Salads with Sentience 😂

@shaneokeigan6150 6 месяцев назад

I tend to use “person” or “people” for referring to all sentient races. An awakened animal is sentient but not humanoid, but I would still call them a person.

@tabletopalchemy 6 месяцев назад

I dig that for sure. “Peoples” might be the way to go.

@dreadqueenmaeve Год назад

I tend to refer to the various races of my games as “mortalkind” and it works because there are no immortal races in my worlds.

@tabletopalchemy Год назад

Oh “mortalkind” is one of the best ones I’ve seen! That’s very cool. 🍻

@mordicai4296 9 месяцев назад

Keep truckin dude, you’ll get to 100k in no time. Your content is really helpful. Im a UE5 dev making a multiplayer RPG. Your world building content is useful for more than tabletop.

@mordicai4296 9 месяцев назад

My only caveat is that us game devs need more inspiration that is platform agnostic (tabletop, d&d, 40k, etc). Better games will be made if we can iron out the core creative philosophies.

@mordicai4296 9 месяцев назад

Also, also, Im new to your channel and love your vibe and knowledge but am confused by your labeling of videos. Im a programmer so I think systematically. Grouping information is essential for us devs so we can more easily reference material. Also also also, I love you.

@tabletopalchemy 9 месяцев назад

Well thanks! I’m glad you dig some of the content (which is maybe frustratingly wide ranging for a programmer lol - I try to trim on logic but uh well you see how that goes 😂). Super awesome that you work with UE5, from a definite layman’s perspective I see huge possibilities for games coming along! And storytelling!🍻

@shadeofnod Год назад

Try sentient life/ sentients instead of humanoid. The ability to worship comes from/ is linked to the ability to reason

@tabletopalchemy Год назад

That’s an interesting concept! Worshippers vs heathens lol (I know it’s not that). Yeah u got my mind spinning with that one 🍻

@misomiso8228 Год назад

I really like how Dragonstar handled this; they created a universal pantheon of '12 gods' that all other gods were said to be derivative of. It gave a legitimate universal idea of how to handle Religion in a galactic Empire of many different cultures. They also had an 'underground' or 'alternate' relgion based on Daosim and duality, so PCs had a different option if they didn't like the universality.

@tabletopalchemy Год назад

This sounds pretty cool, I'll look into Dragonstar, I haven't checked that out before.

@misomiso8228 Год назад

@@tabletopalchemy It's very good. It's a d20 setting from the old days of the OGL. Very interesting concept.

@Peydrous Год назад

The "Sentient" would be a good word to use.

@goontubeassos7076 Год назад

I’d love to see a novel written using preferred “pronouns” 😂 I avoided your egg shells.

@tabletopalchemy Год назад

I’m sure there are some out there by now lol

@ItsWindHere Год назад

This video felt like I was having a chat with a really chill professor. I often zone out when watching videos such as this, but you made me really want to rewind enough to get everything you said.

@tabletopalchemy Год назад

Well that’s pretty cool lol much appreciated! 🍻

@michaelmullenfiddler 5 месяцев назад

Lol. "They won't let me out of here" lol

@jamestaylor3805 Год назад

Latest homebrew "pantheon". The official pantheon(organization made by people) recognizes hundreds of gods for worship even though very very few have ever been confirmed to exist. The real power is beyond these paltry gods, and is held by The Fabric. The rules of existence woven through all things. But, a major event ruptured this universal constant, letting loose unimaginable energy and chaos which has coalesced into the Three Aspects, nearly anthropomorphized godlike beings that are connected yet separate. One aspect looks to repair the rupture potentially ending the existence of the three. One seeks to study the rupture and learn how to further the universal power of The Fabric. One seeks to find peace with current paradigm and let life continue as is. One very physics based "true diety" that doesn't get involved and isn't an "entity" or even "exist" persay that has three very real physical beings within it now. All of the minor gods are in turnoil trying to figure out how they fit in now. Ill accept any idea fo a Godling that a player wants to introduce to this world. Will likely just say some version of every god identified in any campaign setting has some followers here.

@tabletopalchemy Год назад

This is pretty cool! A cleric calling on their godling is unwittingly drawing power from one of the three Aspects?

@jamestaylor3805 Год назад

@@tabletopalchemy the vast majority.

@Winter420 Год назад

Sapient is the term used in traveller to refer to anyone of human-like intelligence of ant race

@tabletopalchemy Год назад

Yes I like this one too.🍻

@stickmaniac672 2 месяца назад

I just go with 'sapiens' for the humanoid races.

@tabletopalchemy 2 месяца назад

Easy enough!

@kelpiekit4002 Год назад

'Sapients' works well for covering all life of complex intelligence since some may be distinctly non-humanoid. I like divinity being complex and messy. Some will believe in humanoid gods or a single perfect god. Others may believe in animistic forces or non-sentient animalistic gods. Others may see gods as powerful beings within the world or reincarnated souls. Others may believe nothing is actually divine but philosophy can channel power. I think a good thing from real life that could be brought into more games is doubt and uncertainty. Your clerics should have faith rather than knowledge. Throw in those inconsistent myths, fundamental contradictions, and annoyingly inconclusive interactions. Give them sufficient reason to doubt the morality, power, and existence of their god or similar figure. It makes the faith of their cleric or paladin so much more meaningful and irrational rather than simply a choice between known powers.

@tabletopalchemy Год назад

This is fantastic advice!! I love the idea of “testing faith” 100%! This is inspiring another video lol.

@kelpiekit4002 Год назад

@@tabletopalchemy Well then. I'd better subscribe to see it.

@dirtywhitellama Год назад

"Anthropomorphity" doesn't do what you want either, anthro = man, morph = shaped, it's basically the same as humanoid. You could go various ways with it in the religious context with things like souled beings or something like that perhaps.

@tabletopalchemy Год назад

It is not easy coming up with a new word that works right when we just don’t have that category (and don’t need it lol).

@dirtywhitellama Год назад

@@tabletopalchemy yeah, inconvenient that, not needing words for nonhuman intelligent beings in day to day life xD or I should say, a collective word for human and non human!

@GGLumberjack 8 месяцев назад

Sapient(s) would be a good one to describe humanoids

@tabletopalchemy 8 месяцев назад

Yeah I’m leaning towards that one. 🤙🍻

@philipmeade7789 11 месяцев назад

Inventing pantheons, a human pastime since 30,000 BC

@tabletopalchemy 11 месяцев назад

Hear hear! Lol 🍻

@moonchock4390 2 месяца назад

This man is incredible

@SombraWatEva 10 месяцев назад

Sentient Races is my go-to

@hughdooley3249 2 месяца назад

This is amazing and so helpful! Thank you

@tabletopalchemy 2 месяца назад

Awesome glad you enjoyed it! 🍻

@scotmcpherson Год назад

I think the word or phrase you probably want to mean is “sentient beings”. Whether they are humanoid shaped or not isn’t so material so long as they are more self aware or even close to becoming self aware.

@tabletopalchemy Год назад

Yeah this is probably the closest - I really wanted a single word but it may not exist (or has to be smithed lol).

@scotmcpherson Год назад

@@tabletopalchemy how about Sentients (as opposed to sentience).

@Royalscriber5633 11 месяцев назад

I have a story that ive made with 4 beings of power. God himself that people have over time confused with another gid. God made Light and Dark, the first 2 beings of power and as the two met Chaos was born. Light, Dark, and Chaos together created all we know within the realm of Chaos. Light within the story is thought to be god by the mortal races while Dark and Chaos are mixed up in many scenarios as Evil while Light is good. Chaos is bound by Nature and brought Sin upon the world and Dark brings Corruption and Decay so its obvious to see where they'd be see as Evil yet the true issues was not these beings but the beings that followed and those that believed they could claimed the Worlds of Mortal Life as their own.

@tabletopalchemy 11 месяцев назад

Ah yes very cool! The nature of mortals to create evil where there may not have been any🍻

@Royalscriber5633 11 месяцев назад

@@tabletopalchemy Exactly, the whole thing is actually a reference to the aspect of Choice. Without the option for both sides to be possible there would be no choice so what we label good and evil must exist forming Chaos. To mortals Dark would appear evil while Chaos is the equivalent to Nature on a cosmic level. None are truly evil and all 3 will exist eternaly but spirits and living aspects that branch off from the 3 can die in a sense. All of what they create is apart of the greater picture for us, not as mortals, but as souls to overcome what we can in the time we are given. Also, take for example most Greek, Norse, Egyptian gods etc. would fall under Spirits created through emotional, subjective, and elemental aspects that come from Chaos while specific Spirits as well as Angels and Reapers would fall under Light and Dark. Everything in the universe I made falls back to the 3 including magic falling under 3 systems. 3 will always be a key number.

@tabletopalchemy 11 месяцев назад

@Royalscriber5633 this is excellent! And agreed!

@Joulederschreckliche Год назад

I don't know if my solution is stupid or smart. Basically I call them humans, BUT I don't have any humans as a playable race. So human becomes an umbrella term by default. Of course that has the consequence that anyone who wants to play white, round eared "normal" person is now out of luck but that can be mitigated by the other 3billion other races plus mixed heritage

@tabletopalchemy Год назад

It’s right if it works for you, for sure. I dig that concept of a no-human human world, that’s gotta be fun to play in 👍

@davidmorgan6896 Год назад

I went for the opposite - there are only humans. Well, there is another intelligent species, but they are very different and not available as PCs.

@tabletopalchemy Год назад

I know someone else who does that too, I find it interesting! Is your game/world more low fantasy vs “high” fantasy? Or sci-fi?

@TheMichaellathrop Год назад

Sapiency might be a good word for what your intending, especially if not all your intelligent races are humanoid... or even animals. Two good resources for this kind of stuff are a pair of second ed dnd books the complete priest and the catacomb builders guide. Lastly it could be fun to make a worlds "devil" it's original heroic godking, take a stand in for Marduc of the 60 names who slew primordial chaos to create the world, but then take a Morkockian view of chaos and order and go the other direction from Warhammer which has written out the lords of order and instead of fighting against warping chaotic mutation there is a calcifying crystalizing force of overwhelming order.

@tabletopalchemy Год назад

Oh I haven’t heard of the catacomb builders book that sounds interesting! Yeah great ideas here!

@TheMichaellathrop Год назад

@@tabletopalchemy catacomb builders guide; the first half is nothing special just a tool for making cave and catacomb dungeons... but the second half weirdly has one of the best world building tools in any dnd book of any edition.

@tabletopalchemy Год назад

I gotta track this down then, curiosity has been piqued lol

@davidmorgan6896 Год назад

I went for a similar cosmology to Light/Dark. There is The Source and there is The Void. The Material is the infinite boundary between these two fundamental opposites and protects each from the other. Life exists in The Material. The Gods are holes in The Material through to The Source and they appear as the suns in the sky. Such is the power of The Source that these rends in the fabric of nature are hugely intelligent cosmic entities and, despite their lack of interest in humanity, they are seen as divine. There may be holes to The Void, but humans are creatures of Light and cannot perceive them. Others might.

@tabletopalchemy Год назад

Ooh this is nice! Very cool!

@davidmorgan6896 Год назад

@@tabletopalchemy Thanks. As I'm on a roll: there are three Celestial gods in the sky, but there is also a god at the heart of the world. She has been imprisoned in matter by the other gods and has created life as part of her attempt to escape. Civilization is the celestial gods doing, as they suborn humanity's attempts to live with nature. The meta idea here was that players might naturally align with the Earth Goddess, but if she wins and breaks free then all life ends.

@tabletopalchemy Год назад

Perfect conundrum to put humanity in lol! Very cool!

@jshud3 Год назад

Speaking of symbols... if you'd like some good rule books to check out... Numenera Discovery and Destiny by Monte Cook Games. Awesome videos by the way!... and know that the little sfx transitions don't go unnoticed! Plus your audio... so easy on the ears! Thank you!

@tabletopalchemy Год назад

Right on, thanks! I’ve def heard a lot about Numenera but I have yet to read it, it’s on my list lol.

@frog8220 Год назад

@@tabletopalchemy I’ve never played Numenera, but boy does that game have incredible character-sheets! That design sent me down a rabbit hole of character sheet design for RPGs, that’s become my current obsession:)

@tabletopalchemy Год назад

Character sheet design is super cool! I’m always looking for the simplest graphical way to show information. Not that I’m personally any good at it lol.

@meatKog 2 месяца назад

Body Horror

@Javetts 8 месяцев назад

Just use "people"

@brakazar76 Год назад

Try sentient beings.

@MichiganDragonSlayer Год назад

demi human...lol probably not helpful

@tabletopalchemy Год назад

That’s helpful - demi is an interesting term to play with.

@matthewheimbecker9055 Год назад

The answer is people. You call everyone people.

@tabletopalchemy Год назад

That might be right! But even here in irl we have multiple terms to refer to “humanity” and that’s really what I’m looking for. I may not find it lol.

@foxtoxic9722 Год назад

Subbed. Thank you this was great. I'll be back for more later. 👈🙂 See ya.

@tristansuarez-perez2346 Год назад

A bit late but a word that may fit is gestalt

@tabletopalchemy Год назад

Ooh that’s a good one! Thanks!

@rasplundjr Год назад

Collective intelligence - Sapience?

@tabletopalchemy Год назад

That seems to be the most popular suggestion!

@CaptnJack Год назад

Sentients

@Tempesta 8 месяцев назад

Working on gods for my campaign and this was extremely helpful. I was starting to get overwhelmed by the standard Pantheon. Definitely need a way to organize the chaos

@tabletopalchemy 8 месяцев назад

Hey, organizing chaos might be the thing humans are best at 😂 Happy writing! 🍻