Questions tagged [religions-and-deities]
For questions about religions and deities in tabletop role-playing games, usually when relating to custom faiths and pantheons within a campaign setting or the worship thereof. (See also: the [divine] tag.) Do not use this tag to indicate that a question is about the religious beliefs of individuals in the real world (players or otherwise).
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What early D&D book features a black-&-white illustration of Ao playing a board game with Tiamat?
I don't know that the image was explicitly labeled "Ao & Tiamat" (spoiler: it wasn't), so it could have been almost any giant humanoid, playing a board game with a multi-headed† draconic ...
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What gods/deities live in the Nine Hells?
In Forgotten Realms lore, what gods or deities make their home in one or more layers of the Nine Hells? (Asking for all editions of the D&D).
I get that each layer is ruled over by a "lord&...
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Do Japan's "Kami" have a divine rank?
Do Japan's "Kami" have a divine rank?
Japanese Shintoism is a type of animism, and it seems that Kami exists in rice fields, toilets, and even grains of rice. Will all of them have divine ...
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Were clerics without a god limited in how many levels they could gain?
It's been almost two decades since I last played D&D, so my memories of it are slightly fuzzy. I know that third edition allowed clerics to follow an ideal rather than a god, and still get spells ...
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What is a Cleric in D&D?
I was recently involved in an argument in a D&D subreddit where I was told repeatedly that I do not understand what a D&D cleric is. I have always understood clerics to be priests of some kind ...
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What are Hestia's spheres of influence?
For my cleric character, she worships Hestia. I want to know what domains Hestia has control over(besides Life) so I can better determine how my cleric should progress in her faith.
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Is there a grand scheme at work for buying worship?
This involves two player characters: A wealthy cleric and a sorcerer with detect thoughts. They are cooperating whereby the cleric is giving gold to NPCs for free, simply asking them to pray to a god ...
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Do gods in 5e still have a "portfolio"?
Having studied the sources available to me on the 5th edition, I did not find any mention of the portfolio. We only know that now all the gods except Ao and demigods are inferior gods and nothing is ...
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How to reconcile Planescape's multiversal gods with the Time of Troubles?
The Forgotten Realms setting's cosmology famously clashes with the Great Wheel cosmology, but large parts of it, for example the tree placement of their Outer Planes, can be easily dismissed as "...
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Deity Suggestions [closed]
the character I'm making for my next campaign is a female drow cleric to Lolth. She believes wholeheartedly that Lolth is a good goddess. Eventually, she will face the truth that Lolth is actually ...
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Can I use the name Vecna for a different character in my own work?
I am creating my own ttrpg and have reached the pantheon section. I was wondering whether or not I could use the name Vecna (not necessarily the same character) without receiving a lawsuit. Is it ...
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Are quasi-gods really unable to hear the prayers of their followers?
On page 11 of the Dungeon Master's Guide we can read:
Quasi-deities have a divine origin, but they don't hear or answer prayers, grant spells to clerics, or control aspects of mortal life
This could ...
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Is there any in game explanation from any edition of D&D for why Greyhawk Powers/Outsiders lost their psionics?
In the original edition of D&D (white box plus supplements version), Outsiders (meaning those who are not from the Prime Material plane, and more specifically Powers; I'm aware that this is ...
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Is there an incarnation of Death in D&D?
Simply put, I was wondering if there was a lawful neutral god whose portfolio is transporting the souls of the dead from the Material Plane to judgement. Marvel has Lady Death, the Greeks have ...
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Does Primal Base commited to Omnipresence count for the sake of calculating evolution?
To clarify the scenario I have in mind is a deity using limited omnipresence on their biggest temple on a particular plane since the religious dogma they cultivated involves them always being in that ...
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