Clerics and deities

[benz72]

Originally Posted by restlessgriffin

Not the best example. For DFRPG, you probably don't get that distinction. You'd only have one transport god, not several. A more likely example would be Sun god vs Moon godess.

Why exactly would the elves, dwarves, halflings, orcs, various tribes of humans, &c. all worship the same god of X? Is that in the sourcebooks somewhere that I missed?
My instinct is that most cultures would have divinities that were tailored to their needs, abilities, physiology and interest. I expect the shark man god of war looks very different from the dark elf god of war and both are also very different from the human god of war. Same for sun, sky, magic, food production, family, justice/law or whatever other anthropomorphized concept one might imbue with divinity.