God of Fear, for as long as there are mortal men present, there will always be fear and a powerful being to feed upon it.

Also, possibly a god of weather/crops. Pray to them to get good rains for your corn and hopefully a winter that won't kill all of your cattle.

Deity of divinity, who decides who gets to be a deity within the plane assigned to him. He is a huge dickhead and swaps roles once in a few weeks, giving the new folk portfolios according to their skills and character. Hilarity ensues.

Needs more Cthulhu

>>4022165
I have a god who oversees: war/slaughter and justice.

I think more important than what the god thinks they rule, is how the different groups see the god, and what aspect they worship.

God of Orgasm

God of Betrayal, he will inevitably betray any and all who follow him or worship him and use them for his own personal gain in some way and it is he that manifests the will for betrayal in any characters that do so. (So it becomes possible to un-do NPC betrayals given appropros stats and such)

God of Magic Balance: Not like a standard God, the God of Magic Balance's job is to ensure that all magics in the world remain in equal quantity and strength. Meaning that the God must sometimes allocate gifts of magical prowess to specific people if it's opposite is growing in strength. Aside from being a good way to introduce a magic user to the party (or create the main bad guy, whatever) it also acts as a questgiver if your party are non-retarded enough to quest for the benefit of a single party member (the magic user) or quest for the ability to peramanently weaken the big baddy.

God of Terrain: He who shapes the earth and keeps all forces of nature in balance, if the terrain is unpassable, then the God of Terrain is sending a warning to the party.

God of Rocks Fall And You Die: use sparingly.

God of Chaos: I think you already know who this is

Try to stay away from god cliche's to make them more interesting. For example, in my camapign world I have a dwarf sun god. Now, most gods, such as Apollo or Amon-Ra, watch from the sun, and look down at mankind. Not Hetous. He throws the sun across the horizen every morning. And at night, he forges weapons and artifacts inside for the other gods, or perhaps a powerful mortal, to use.

Feel free to steal this one, i have plenty more.

There is no Peter, Only Zuul

http://cristasaurus.multiply.com/video/item/1

God of the Seas/Water. Make him an easily angered and demanding god. Ships have to offer vast offerings to appease him or face his wrath of huge giant sea monsters.

A diety that has two faces, one lawful good, one lawful evil. It's Paladins don't fall as often, they just worship the other face. It's known that it is the same god, but the two different religions that worship him are at each other's throats all the time... religion is a strange mistress.

>>4022179

I'm taking that and making him a neutral god aspect of the god of life.

>>4022345
Needs another deity obsessed with order and balance that finds the dorf's sun overnight and brings it back to him... Only for the sundorf to toss it out the next dawn again. Repeat for every single day.

>>4022165

>A mysterious Death God that no one really knows anything about.

Maybe based on Anubis or Osiris?

>Twin gods of Luck/Divination respectively, with both being gods of Light as well.

I had an idea for that awhile ago. Fate- Goddess of destiny. She chooses your eventual end. Chance-goddess of the path. This fickle goddess chooses how you will reach your end.

Chance is whimsical, and difficult to appease for long periods of time.

Fate can be cheated, but you will incur her wrath (she just happens to plan out natural disasters).

They would be the major deities of a matriarchal polytheist religion.

Seasonal gods can be good. Or one god with multiple personality disorder. It's pretty obvious what kind of personality each season entails, Winter being bitter and easily angered, Spring being hard working and generous, Summer being happy perhaps a little overbearing on worshipers, Autumn being... er... well the middle ground personality. Normal, not bitter or angry but not partically happy. Worship of this god gives different gift depending on season, mostly being relevant to the season itself.

>>4022383
Actually, the best version of the twin gods of fortune i've seen come from discworld. Fate, who always plays to win, and The Lady, who always plays not to lose, and won't ever sacrifice a pawn.

>>4022406

>multiple personalities

Many of the Egyptian gods and goddesses had this trait. Can't remember her name, but the lioness headed goddess, although a deity of protection normally, almost destroyed humanity when she god angry. She was only stopped when Ra tricked her into drinking a flood's worth of blood-red alcohol.

The deities that did change personalities also changed their names .

>>4022436

Mine are shinier.

>>4022406
The god would of course have to be a teenager, preferably a teenage girl. Who else could be that hormonal?

>>4022165

God of the Broken Cycle:
A neutral god whose temples are attended to in large part by undead, and a number of his priests are lichs (undeath represents the ultimate breaking of a cycle). He's also prayed to by commoners who are looking to break bad habits, or a string of bad luck. Homosexuality is favored by this god as it breaks the cycle of reproduction. Revolutionaries pray to him and incorporate his symbol into their battlestandards as they want to break the cycle of whatever government is in power. Et cetera.

>>4022446
That's Sekhmet, if I recall, and she's rather similar to Kali. Speaking of her, the Indian crew and their avatars should be mentioned.

god of knowledge/madness - he gives knowledge and secrets freely to those who ask, but madness lurks behind his gifts. those who ask too much are afflicted by delusions, paranoia, schizophrenia and other mental diseases. he will make you the greatest mage in the world, but you will lose all sense of reality.

>>4022540

Cthulhu?

God of Cheetos

>>4022588

Cthulhu?

simcity god - helps people build massive cities and cultivate civilizations only to destroy them though horrible natural disasters.

>>4022436

"There was always an argument about whether the newcomer was a goddess at all. Certainly no one ever got anywhere by worshipping her, and she tended to turn up only where she was least expected, such as now. And people who trusted in her seldom survived. Any temples built to her surely would be struck by lightning. Better to juggle axes on a tightrope than say her name. Just call her the waitress in the Last Chance saloon."

Genesis 1

1 Oh hai. In teh beginnin Ceiling Cat maded teh skiez An da Urfs, but he did not eated dem.

2 Da Urfs no had shapez An haded dark face, An Ceiling Cat rode invisible bike over teh waterz.

3 At start, no has lyte. An Ceiling Cat sayz, i can haz lite? An lite wuz.4 An Ceiling Cat sawed teh lite, to seez stuffs, An splitted teh lite from dark but taht wuz ok cuz kittehs can see in teh dark An not tripz over nethin.5 An Ceiling Cat sayed light Day An dark no Day. It were FURST!!!1

6 An Ceiling Cat sayed, im in ur waterz makin a ceiling. But he no yet make a ur. An he maded a hole in teh Ceiling.7 An Ceiling Cat doed teh skiez with waterz down An waterz up. It happen.8 An Ceiling Cat sayed, i can has teh firmmint wich iz funny bibel naim 4 ceiling, so wuz teh twoth day.

9 An Ceiling Cat gotted all teh waterz in ur base, An Ceiling Cat hadz dry placez cuz kittehs DO NOT WANT get wet.10 An Ceiling Cat called no waterz urth and waters oshun. Iz good.

11 An Ceiling Cat sayed, DO WANT grass! so tehr wuz seedz An stufs, An fruitzors An vegbatels. An a Corm. It happen.12 An Ceiling Cat sawed that weedz ish good, so, letz there be weedz.13 An so teh threeth day jazzhands.

14 An Ceiling Cat sayed, i can has lightz in the skiez for splittin day An no day.15 It happen, lights everwear, like christmass, srsly.16 An Ceiling Cat doeth two grate lightz, teh most big for day, teh other for no day.17 An Ceiling Cat screw tehm on skiez, with big nails An stuff, to lite teh Urfs.18 An tehy rulez day An night. Ceiling Cat sawed. Iz good.19 An so teh furth day w00t.

GORK N MORK

>>4022603
Cuthlhu?

20 An Ceiling Cat sayed, waterz bring me phishes, An burds, so kittehs can eat dem. But Ceiling Cat no eated dem.21 An Ceiling Cat maed big fishies An see monstrs, which wuz like big cows, except they no mood, An other stuffs dat mooves, An Ceiling Cat sawed iz good.22 An Ceiling Cat sed O hai, make bebehs kthx. An dont worry i wont watch u secksy, i not that kynd uf kitteh.23 An so teh...fith day. Ceiling Cat taek a wile 2 cawnt.

24 An Ceiling Cat sayed, i can has MOAR living stuff, mooes, An creepie tings, An otehr aminals. It happen so tehre.25 An Ceiling Cat doed moar living stuff, mooes, An creepies, An otehr animuls, An did not eated tehm.

26 An Ceiling Cat sayed, letz us do peeps like uz, becuz we ish teh qte, An let min p0wnz0r becuz tehy has can openers.

27 So Ceiling Cat createded teh peeps taht waz like him, can has can openers he maed tehm, min An womin wuz maeded, but he did not eated tehm.

28 An Ceiling Cat sed them O hai maek bebehs kthx, An p0wn teh waterz, no waterz An teh firmmint, An evry stufs.

29 An Ceiling Cat sayed, Beholdt, the Urfs, I has it, An I has not eated it.30 For evry createded stufs tehre are the fuudz, to the burdies, teh creepiez, An teh mooes, so tehre. It happen. Iz good.

31 An Ceiling Cat sayed, Beholdt, teh good enouf for releaze as version 0.8a. kthxbai.

* The Avatar of Emptiness who represents everything that has become a shallow tradition, people just going over the motions of real worship. He's not necessarily hostile to creation, just something that's anathema to the real gods, because he's essentially lack of belief made manifest.

>>4022318
God of Rocks Fall And You Die? What a stupid idea for a god tha*BANG*

This is a good thread.

The "A Malazan Book of the Fallen" novel series has an fuck-awesome pantheon of gods, you should check it out.

But, hey... now that I think about it, those gods kinda sound like they were inspired by them already. First god is Hood, second god seems to be a combination of two godess sisters (Health and Virulance, can't remember their names) and the third god certainly sounds like Oponn.

Good for you mate.

>>4022785
"Who the fuck would worship a deity of immovable ro-*CLANG*
"FUCK YOU"

A god of darkness. Not evil, and only associated with shadows and nighttime through symbolism, he's the god of the hidden. Spies, refugees, and other keepers of secrets form the bulk of his worshipers.

He has a natural antagonism with people who try to uncover secrets, like adventurers seeking lost or buried treasure, and must be propitiated by them.

>>4022788

Cthulhu?

>>4022484
Or be worshiped by them. Teenagers and women. And farmers, of course.

A god of death who is so jealous about his/her/its job that actively combats anyone who takes a life and is not him/her/itself.

A killer-killer.

>>4022847
A god of Darkness and Illusion.

I like it!

Well, Xom obviously. ALL HAIL XOM.

Also, a God of Tidiness. Lawful Neutral to the extreme, he demands that all be clean and tidy. Beggars? Kill and burn them to clean up the streets, or give them some nice clothes and set them to work brushing to streets. Littering? Death.

>>4022815
Soliel is the Goddess of health and Poliel is the Goddess of pestilence

God of insecurity.
God of insanity.
God of consciousness.
God of information.
God of humor.
God of beauty.
God of language.
God of *

*A goddess of healing and disease. Works on a give/take basis, she won't heal someone without also afflicting them with some manner of disease or illness and similarly won't afflict someone without also healing them in some manner. Is also a symbol of law in many places, adhering to her neutral and Status Quo personality.

This should be the death and fertility god as well and the chief deity in the pantheon.
Fuck mysterious thing no one knows anything about. And fuck death gods that are hurf durf I kill you.
In fact, any god that is hurf durf I kill you shouldn't exist except as a foil to other gods. No one would worship Nerull or Erythnul, so they should exist except as figures in other diety's myths.

A god of family, vengeance, and murder. His doctrine holds that family is an extension of the self, and should be treated as such. He also believes firmly that all slights should be repaid in full if not further. The upshot of this tends to be clans of his worshipers hunting down and killing those who have wronged (or annoyed) them... and then all their relatives. Quite popular amongst those who are into multi-generational blood feuds anyway.

Out of synch with regular settings alignment God.

The God of Rot? Good. He symbolises life after death, a circle of all beings regardless of type reliant on eachother. To rot is to sustain your world and those who choose to live in it regardless of their choices. A truly selfless act.

His paladins seek out those who would destroy to feed the earth. They're they smiting type, but likeable enough guys if they haven't caught you with your hand in the evil jar.

Something like that.