Quote Originally Posted by vasilidor View Post
I once toyed with the idea of basing a pantheon off of popular comic book characters.
Spider-man, Batman etc.
I mean, that's valid. In future I am likely to move away from a pantheon structure entirely, but my game has been running for years. It has certain nonstandard assumptions, and the standard assumptions behind a pantheon as normal are quite specific.
I don't allow many of the core classes anymore. I disallow Cleric and Paladin and the assumptions behind them, among other things, and with them I no longer need to lock into those very specific ideas. I can play with cosmology much more. I already am; I can bring a world that is unrepentantly misotheistic, exploring how that affects the world. Last game was entirely psionic, and the theology was deistic. Next time, I can play with myth even more.