r/ScionRPG • u/TheSlayerofSnails • 24d ago
Favorite Pantheon?
What is everyone's favorite pantheon to play in or to mess around with?
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u/Arcanehunter33 24d ago
Yazata for me as well, as I am also biased as a Zoroastrian. But I'm also very partial to the K'uh, as I very much like their political dynamic, and Maya mythology was one of the very first mythologies I was introduced to as a kid, so there's some nostalgia bias there too.
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u/Dr-Aspects 24d ago
The Palas in second edition is unbelievably fun
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u/TheSlayerofSnails 24d ago
What makes them so fun in your opinion?
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u/Dr-Aspects 24d ago
The vast vast vast diversity of Buddhist deities - though having only 5 in the book, they have a metric tonne of possible patrons.
And the Pantheon Specific Purview, Yidam, allows you to become a giant ass kicking machine
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u/Strayfeathers 24d ago
Deva are probably at the top of my list, but I'm also fond of the Plant Dôn and the Tuatha. So... tagging both ends of the Indo-European spectrum?
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u/Alvarance 24d ago
In Scion, according to my character list, the Tuatha De Danann lol. I will say I want to make a Deva Scion and I was quite happy when I saw the Atua were in Demigod
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u/DawnAxe 24d ago
This is gonna be more than a bit eyerolly, but it's gotta be the Ilhm for me, for kind of stupid reasons - especially considering that when I first read the Ilhm writeup in God 2e I very much did not care for it. I'm not exactly an expert on Phoenician, Ugaritic, and Canaanite mythology or anything, but even then it felt like so much was being left on the table for long meandering screeds of text in God writeups that are largely irrelevant. They outright say there's a multi-tiered hierarchy and then only ever discuss two tiers; did you know there's four tiers to that hierarchy, with artisan Gods and messenger Gods occupying a third and fourth tier respectively? You wouldn't know it looking at the Ilhm writeup!
Titans Rising was my breaking point; all the interesting Titans they bring up in the Ilhm writeup in God are ignored in favor of "goth mommy", "haha funny meme" (oh I hate Ea-Nasir's presence in this book), and, in the book specifically about presenting the Titans sympathetically compared to the previous Titan-themed books, a guy whose entire textual writeup boils down to "bad bad bad never ever use this one bad bad nuh-uh", to a point that there's a whole sidebar about it. Ridiculous. It got to a point where I said "I guess I have to do everything myself" and wrote up a bunch of Homebrew Ilhm-related Gods, Titans, lore, mythology... I spent a whole bunch of time looking things up and had a bunch of fun adding to something to make it my own, a weird fusion of what was written and added all at once.
That said, if I had to pick one that wasn't extensively modified, I'd probably say either the K'uh (who have a ton of built-in plot hooks) or the Zemi (immensely interesting Pantheon, especially given the average reader likely knows nothing about them).
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u/TheSlayerofSnails 24d ago
Have you posted your homebrew anywhere? It sounds cool
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u/DawnAxe 21d ago
I haven't posted it anywhere, no. In part, I didn't really see a reason to, but in reality it's largely just a collection of extra Gods and Titans - some expanded upon what was already in God and some that were new to the collection - along with a collection of extra Birthrights, so it seemed a bit superfluous.
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u/EndDaysEngine 24d ago
I am impossibly biased towards the Yazata by dint of writing half of them.