Editing Gods of Dungeons & Dragons (section)

==Historical Deities==
See also: [[Mythology]]

Whilst D&D has never shied away from creating gods of its own division for its various campaign settings, [[Gygax]] and his buddies were big mythology and history fans, so they eagerly explored the idea of using various "Pagan" religions as being real things in the D&D multiverse. This led to the [[Deities & Demigods]] [[splatbook]]. Whether or not people actually ''like'' this idea of "fictionalizing" real-world mythologies, which people can get rather touchy about... well...

Whatever the stance on actually ''using'' them in game is, they're well known and public domain so they ''do'' serve well as examples of how to make a D&D type deity without attaching a particular setting to the example. 

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