Canon talk:Deity

I could expand this significantly, but I haven't felt that this site is interested in homebrew information. Is it safe to add homebrew content for running gods? Cedric (talk) 22:08, 18 January 2018 (MST)

The canon articles are restricted to information from D&D canon only (so the official D&D campaign settings like Forgotten Realms, Spelljammer, older stuff, etc.). Homebrew content for running gods would go under the respective edition's homebrew pages. There are partial sourcebooks for it here, like Complete Epic (3.5e Sourcebook). Surgo (talk) 23:20, 18 January 2018 (MST)

Just an FYI, I'm nowhere near done with work on CE, I don't consider it ready for use. Right now then it would be placed in 3.5e Deities if you wanted to make gods for a setting. -- Eiji-kun (talk) 00:10, 19 January 2018 (MST)

... or 4e Deities, or 5e Deities. And if it's not a particular deity, just an article about running them in a particular edition, it could be written up in 3.5e Other, 4e Other, or 5e Other. Or if it's a total conversion it could be a stand alone sourcebook (E6_(3.5e_Sourcebook)) or campaign setting (Shattered_Haven_(3.5e_Campaign_Setting)) in whatever edition is most appropriate / closest. Because we support a bunch of different homebrew, just with appropriate context so we don't make the end user wade through frustration to find something partially useful.

But Canon is intended to be a more scholarly resource, with references to published work where appropriate. If you have information to contribute about how the deities have been represented in various editions, that would be great. Or the afterlife. Distilling how various editions have dealt with these things and writing that up so others can reference it is what this is here for. It's probably the closest section on the wiki to the wikipedia ideal, including the ideal of notability. It's not an appropriate place for homebrew material. - Tarkisflux ^Talk 09:48, 19 January 2018 (MST)