Talk:Dead god (Dungeons & Dragons)

Dead gods

Why is this page here? Nothing links to it, and the only content on this page is the list of dead gods. -AndyBQ 18:10, 17 April 2006 (UTC)

I'm going to make this a subcaterogy of Category:Dungeons & Dragons deities instead, and put the tag on the relevant dead god pages. I'll make this a redirect to the category. -AndyBQ 04:00, 11 May 2006 (UTC)

"Since they no longer have widespread followings, the gods of the Ancient Egyptian, Ancient Assyrian, Ancient Mesopotamian, Native American, Norse, and various other mythologies are said to be dead gods in the context of several Dungeons & Dragons products, although this is generally not the case, and in fact the Egyptian gods were adapted in Deities and Demigods for the Third Edition of the game."

Ah, there's nothing in D&D to suggest that the real-world pantheons are "dead." I've never read that anywhere. Quite the opposite, in fact. Back in 2nd Edition, when the cosmology was unified into a cohesive whole (as opposed to each setting having its own cosmology), it was made explicitly clear that the real-world gods coexisted with the fictional deities of the Forgotten Realms, Dragonlance, etc. -- and were, in fact, significantly more influential than they on the Outer Planes for having worshipers on many more worlds. I mean, look at any Planescape product under the sun. While 3rd Edition has focused mainly on the Greyhawk pantheon, references to real-world gods have crept in here and there (allusions to Loki and Sung Chiang in the Manual of the Planes, for instance). Furthermore, the Forgotten Realms and Greyhawk feature the Egyptian and Aztec gods, respectively, in remote corners of the setting. And, as noted, the Greek, Norse, and Egyptian gods were detailed in the context of their own cosmologies in Deities & Demigods.

So I'm just deleting that statement.