13 Thoughts on “Random God Generator”

1. Chris on May 23, 2012 at 12:02 pm said:

   I didn’t include an alignment table. That was by design. You should definitely decide that yourself. Me, I make all gods and devils lawful, period. Even ‘gods of chaos’. So if I have no plan, I can flip a coin between good and evil and I’m done.
2. Chris on May 23, 2012 at 12:06 pm said:

   I’m going to try to get this made into a nice PDF.
3. Daniel on May 23, 2012 at 12:31 pm said:

   You have outdone yourself. Since casually telling my players they live in a land of 10’000 gods it’s been a game of How Many Gods Can The GM Make Before He Snaps. Thanks for the save.
4. Chris on May 23, 2012 at 1:07 pm said:

   Note: change #31 on the purviews table to commerce/unexpected windfalls.
5. Chris on May 24, 2012 at 8:17 am said:

   @daniel, some cultures use large numbers to mean “more than worth counting”
6. Daniel on May 26, 2012 at 12:05 am said:

   That was generally how it’s been implied so far. I’ve always disliked the standard fantasy RPG’s adherence to sombre Judeo-Christian monotheistic religious systems, it’s just unrealistic and dull. We need more gods of kidnapping and cake!
7. Crom on June 2, 2012 at 5:36 pm said:

   I love these tables you’ve been coming up with.

   Would it be too much to ask if we could get a table of tables so that it’s easier to look through all of the tables rather than have to scroll through your entire blog?
8. Chris on June 2, 2012 at 7:21 pm said:

   Hey,

   I will try to put together some sort of index. In the meantime, you can click the TABLES link in the menu above to see all articles tagged TABLES.

   -mgt
9. Dovah on June 23, 2012 at 1:46 am said:

   Thanks! I’m writing a book, and each race has a pantheon or two.
   6 races, 8 pantheons! Should be 5-12 gods in each, so 40-96 gods unless shared gods in pantheons!
   Yikes
10. Duncan Beach on December 24, 2012 at 5:31 pm said:

    Not to nitpick, but under the ‘Gods’ bit, in the purview section, you forgot ‘naughtiness’ in the human endeavors. I’ve always thought there’d ought to be a God of Naughtiness.
11. Chris on December 24, 2012 at 5:56 pm said:

    Perhaps. I think we have many kinds of naughtiness covered by Beer/Wine, Male Virility, Fidelity/Adultery and Indulgence, Tricks, Laughter, Love/Sex and Gambling. In general, I tried to avoid adjectives in favor of nouns and verbs, since things are activities can be interpreted many ways. If I did it over again, I’d work the fool/jester and the lothario into the personal domains.
12. R. Donald James Gauvreau on January 25, 2014 at 11:08 pm said:

    I’m working on a book of comparative mythology with an eye toward use for worldbuilding, and I was wondering if you would mind if I included the tables here in an appendix because, well, RPGs: do we /need/ an excuse to include random tables?
13. Powder Miner on January 31, 2016 at 9:24 am said:

    Thank you for having this out there — it’s probably the most interesting table or generator for something of this sort I’ve seen, and while I mainly use it to create deities to play for forum games, it helps me come up with stuff that goes beyond your typical cliche’d pantheon.