Making Homebrew Gods for RPGs 

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With a homebrew setting I was working on, there were nine gods, one for each alignment... but the quirk for the setting was that there were no racial gods, every race in the setting worshipped the same nine, just with them being depicted as the species that was worshipping them. I also do mean that every god had their time in the spotlight. The LG and LE gods were gods of war, but the LG god was also the god of the sun and the Honor aspect of war, the glory that came with victory and the humility of an honorable defeat. The LE goddess though, was the Goddess of the moon, her aspect of war was Conquest. Regardless of how the society viewed both gods, any victory was expected to offer a share of the treasure to the goddess of Conquest because to do otherwise would earn her wrath... and she was not subtle about how she hated being stiffed on her share of the treasure from a victory.

I came up with an idea of an ancient race that all but died out tens of thousands of years ago leaving their knowledge in ruins for the new evolved races to discover. They misinterpreted the ancient texts believing that they were gods and many types of religions were formed. Through time and belief, divine creatures were manifested according to their religion and in time with worship, were powerful to grant divine power therefore Clerics rose up. What they didn't know that the texts weren't gods yet the ancient races were actually talking about were patrons. Otherworldly patrons whom these young races were believing to be gods introduce themselves and made pacts which start the Warlock classes. So the current world believes in nine Cleric gods which were also actually nine Warlock patrons which later infused with magic created nine Sorcery bloodlines. All from the same nine sources.

I had an idea for a town that believes that it is at war with another country and has been for thousands of years. But the war does not exist but that war is the reason the countries are at peace, because they know it is being settled, but during the adventure they find out that there was no war and that leads to some conflict between countries

This is BRILLIANT my friend, congratulations for your work!

Listening to your thought process is inspirational, it really get my ideas going.

This is so cool! My favorite part of world building is creating Deities and Religions, so this is super helpful.

I’m designing my homebrew world, and struggling on deciding whether to make pantheons for each race or a set of gods for all. I like the idea of racially distinct gods but feel like it might be too much for the players if there’s 4 gods of death depending on who you ask. And if you do prefer a set for all races, how do you justify all the races coming together to worship them in a multicultural world? Love your vids Icarus

I normally build the towns physical aspect but not much about anything at all

You are amazing

What are your thoughs on characters asking to worships Gods they created? Ussualy I just integrate whatever God's they want to use, but they sometimes feel out of place. I just don't have the heart to tell my players no when they already made such a cool paladin who worships that God.

What are the worshippers of koros views on intelligent undead? Do they differ from the mindless skeletons and zombies? Also, would extending one's own life via un death displease the Goddes, since they are denying her their souls?

is it correct there is no video from friday 28 december ?

Adding the parchment paper effect at the end, is there a specific way to do that?

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What program did he use to input the summary and all at 25:20?