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I love you so much for this, so much inspiration. So many NPCS with all the magic cards too

That’s actually such a good idea! I need to implement this for a book idea I have. Thank you so much!

Such a shame this channel is gone. I have really appreciated your videos, too bad I didn't find this channel earlier. I hope you'll get to read this comment anyway.

If you build from the worshippers up then you make gods who have no reality where they don't touch human lives. You get gods who only stretch as far as human imagination can reach. Quirks are not just for mortals. Gods need them as well.

I made a pantheon with chatGPT.

Starting with worshipers is a good idea! A related approach is letting gods (and religions) be created by the various peoples and cultures. Religions and gods would change as the culture changed. This could also be used to explain similarities between pantheons. For instance, the Nordic, Greek and Hindu pantheons were likely derived from a common Indo-European source that was modified according to local history and development. Often themes are recurrent, for instance both the Indo-European and Babylonian religions have the notion of generations of gods, where the old generation (titans in Greek mythology, representing the chaos of nature) are replaced by the Olympian gods (representing order, but not really law). This could represent the gods of hunter-gatherers being supplanted by the gods of farming and pastoralist cultures, or that farming and pastoralist cultures were reliant on a certain degree of regularity in nature, so their gods needed to have control over nature.

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Theory: Scorpion god was probably a ram and also a god of power. Scarab god was probably a deity of the afterlife and the original god Pharaoh. Locust god was probably female, a bird headed goddess and wife of Kefnet. She may had been the deity of wisdom.

Bontu is Set, Ammit and Sobek. Kefnet is Thoth, Isis and Heka. Rhonas is Wadjet, Serkhet and Hershef. Oketra is Bast, Sekhmet and Re. Hazoret is Anput, Aten and Osiris.

Kruphix = Chronos +Ouranos Klothts= Moira+Ananke Heliod= Zeus+Helios Thassa=Poseidon+Thalassa Erebos=Hades+Erebus Purphoros=Hephaestus+Prometheus Nylea=Artemis+Cybele Athreos=Charon+Thanatos Iroas=Heracles+Athena Mogis=Ares+Enyo Ephara=Athena+Genymedes Karametra=Hestia+Demeter Pharika=Hecate+Asklepios Phenax=Dolos+Hermes Xenagos=Pan+Dionysus Keranos=Summanus+Apollon

And for an extra level of complexity you have things like the 7? daughters of Poseidon who were likely local deity's to begin with so they are associated with an animal and or a place as well as having gained some overly specific aspect of sea weather island or water since their incorporation into his myth cycle. So I suppose the question is does Mohr have more clerics or more warlocks? It could be fun to incorporate some of your own negative divinities into a pantheon as non infernal demons that are available as patrons for warlocks and cults. Sure you've got a psycopomp god of death, but you may have another deity that started out as an environmental dirty (desert or oasis or mountain river etc depending on the local terrain) then because of a historical battle the locals made them their war god, however a century later your main culture concurred them and the locals continued fighting a guerilla insurgency so they have been transformed once again into a death/murder god.

This was posted a very but this was very very helpful although I’m not using it for dnd but my own gave and this made me reconsider and add somethings so thank you

this was really helpful actually thank you !

J R R Tolkien started his by finish a poem he found in Oxford. Then he created languages before he made the gods.

Very good advice not only for DMs but also aspiring authors! Thanks!

There was a lot of parallels between the names of the MTG theros deities and yours. As well as the relationship between the two god of wars

It seems you took alot of your god ideas from theros which is a very good building block of gods

Well done and helpful! Thanks a lot!

Great advice, but what about a world where gods aren't worshipped, and some are even integrated into society?

This video was awesome and I just became a subscriber. That being said, do you have any tips on naming deities for your world and how to make them unique? That's the issue I'm having with my own worldbuilding.

Can you share the spreadsheet?

My god of death is a Morrigan inspired one, and people worship them because it is comforting to know that everything they suffered for is leading to something, if not for them, than for their children or their grandchildren. Just to let you know as well, when you reach a certain age, you are forced to worship only one god. The most pious followers become clerics and the like.

Ngl, I do like that it’s the undead that do the manual work, allowing the living to devote themselves to the betterment of themselves (it would be the first thing I’d do if I was a necromancer)

Awesome!

I suppose the idea of creating the god from the worshipers first isn't too far removed from how I first started concepting out certain deities. Namely, to start with a mortal who will later become a god; what aspects define them, and what powers best augment those traits. One might even say that worship can come from following the example of a hero who has come before.

Yes gods are created by their believers

Heard, start with the worshipers. Why didn’t I think of that?! Thank you so much!

This is probably the greatest advice I've ever heard about pantheons. It really echoes what a lot of reconstructionist pagans actually talk about, too!

Trust me I’m trying, when I pull of this powersystem it’s going to be legendary

...i don't understand how ur examples of 4 of the Theros gods with slightly tweeked names is sposed to teach anyone how to make their own cool gods? Like y not just use the Theros gods by name in ur world? I'd have to dive back into Theros lore to tell if u actually changed anything about their backstories that u recounted. Cuz i forget the names of the war gods but Athreos, God of Passage n Kruphix, God of Horizons have the exact same roles as ur gods, it's right their in their titles (for those who don't know, those r the verbatim card names of Magic: the Gathering cards that were the first representations of those gods in card form). The confusing part is I'm not sure if u were even trying to hide it cuz u used the Theros gods artwork so it wasn't subtle but it sounds like u haven't realized it yet. U renamed someone else's gods, so if u try n pass that off as ur own then isn't that plagiarism? The weird part is ur main point of "start with the worshippers" is smart

I hope you make a video for making spells from dnd spells

I've always found these kind of videos interesting. A few years ago i made a minecraft SMP and during a battle it started raining, thus meaning the god of the rivers was blessing us and granted us victory. After this i created a temple to worship the god i created, Ayses. After a while we added three more gods to the list; Elychi the god of hell/nether, Arxeus the god of the void/end and the father of the Aysesian gods, and Rehaita who is the goddess of chaos. Over nore time, more concepts were filled with these gods and stories were written to give each god/goddess their own background and story. Now we have three factions of gods which are all making alliances and fighting amongst each other. These factions are the Aysesian gods (Arxeus, Ayses, Elychi, Rehaita, Ataris, Falexius, and the fallen god Ward), the Psychic gods (Suexar, Trusea, Falta, and Ceatrix), then the Angelic gods which are Falexius and Ceatrix's children (Ceatrix, Falexius, Taurignis, Luxius, and Ventus) Overall tho, great video and thanks for more advice on how to better strengthen the religions of my improv RP SMP!

does anyone know how to spell the gods names?

Very inspiring, thanks :-)

I just thought about this for my next D&D campaign. What if magic can be radioactive if not contained properly? Or something along those lines? I then looked online and found your video on this. Instant sub.

Unpopular opinion, but I've always seen spidey as either Grixis or Jeskai.

This is a really helpful way to handle making deities. I'm working on making my first pantheon and was struggling to fill in each domain and making them relevant. Going to give this method a shot now

Btw, if you haven't, I think you should check out the anime "That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime", in that world, magic is fueled by "Magicles" which are present in the ambient, magical creatures have them inside of their bodies, while humans don't. The thing is, too much concentration magicles in a place are dangerous to everybody, and can lead to death, and I think that in the case of humans, even mutation. So that's an interesting take on the idea in my opinion.

I think you are drawing a bit too much inspiration from the real world. Why would the people from this world need steel to make the tools necessary for measuring the background magic leftovers? Wouldn't a spell or a scroll, or a magical glass/prism be enough?

Thanks for content, informative and unique in comparison to breadth of worldbuilding videos out there on TH-cam.

I really like this I'd actually to try this. I do have some interesting twists to this. Though I'm not sure how it would work.

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Those are really good points about monster manual monster design. I feel like I have to do so much heavy lifting to make combat interesting by thinking a lot about tactics, terrain and homebrewing monsters

An interesting start and approach to this topic, considering the prevalence of GGR, MOoT, and Strixhaven (within the next month). Thanks for posting this video. This certainly provides some food for thought on the matter. There are some concerns though I do have with the method that your team has taken to this approach, which I'll detail briefly below (some of which has been brought up via the video's Reddit Post): 1. Evergreen Keyword Translations. Not all keywords translate evenly over to DND. For example, take Baleful Strix from from Planechase 2012 (which was an Uncommon). By your team's calculations, this creature would more than likely be a CR 2 creature with added splash damage via Poison damage. Now, on the surface, this seems fairly reasonable so far... Except for one thing: even though this card is a Uncommon, the impact that stems from the Deathtouch keyword is a bit glossed over in terms of its wholistic scope; theoretically, this is the kind of card that can, and should, be able to kill a creature with the impact of Emrakul, the Aeons Torn, provided you could Stifle/Trickbind/etc. the Annihilator trigger first (unless you already have the necessary number of permanents to sacrifice). I'm curious to hear how your team has opted to revise these guidelines since this video's release. Have there been any changes made since this was created? 2. Creature Ability Scaling (based in part on the card's rarity). If I look at a card like "One-Shot Robot" (i.e., Blightsteel Colossus), and try to convert it over to a DND creature, a DM could easily end up with a weakened version of a CR 22+ creature that doesn't fully convey the impact a card like this has in relation to the battlefield. A card like this in MTG could and should ROFL-stomp most creatures on an MTG battlefield. Which leads to my next question: is there some sort of mathematical or ability formula that accounts for the power level of said cards that don't have keywords listed on your sheet? Or is there a revision somewhere in the works that addresses this potential issue (similar to my question posed earlier)? 3. Creature Ability Scaling (based in part on the card's oracle text). While some things can be quantified in MTG, not everything can be scaled appropriately to fit DND. For example, take Primeval Titan. While in theory this card could be a CR 14-15 creature (CR 12 + 2 to 3 extra to account for its Mythic Rarity) with 200+ HP, it's potential stat block doesn't account for its ETB or attack trigger clauses. I'm curious to hear: How does your team account for attack triggers that don't cleanly mesh with DND's mechanics? Do you make them legendary creatures? Or is there a science to this aspect as well? In any event, thanks for posting. I'd certainly would like to see a revision to this list, since this is the kind of material that's desperately in need, due to the partial merger of the MTG world with the DND multiverse.

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