But for the good side it feels like the gods were just randomly picked out of a hat with no thought given to the selection whatsoever.
Oh yeah ! I said earlier that
I want to believe that the list of deities that went into EA v1 was a combination of :
- Some deities Larian really wanted to have in the game for EA roleplay purposes. Notably, Shar and Selune.
- A random mix of the rest to give a bit more options. And I mean, literally random.
I want to believe that the current list is really just a placeholder, and that we'll get a much fuller list eventually. I know. It feels weird. When I'm not thinking about combat rules and Larian's communication, I find myself being somewhat optimistic. Anyway, I don't think they favour evil. I'm sure they're aware that most players will play good, at least at first (and most people won't even finish their first playthrough), and I hope (...) that they realise that their evil path isn't exactly award-worthy. I think it's just a random selection of gods.
As a longtime divinity player, I hate to be negative but they VERY MUCH favor evil, if not at the very least a dark grim nuetrality. They dont seem to enjoy writing classic fairytale good guy types. Which is their right but as someone who wants to play the "goody two shoes" it can get frustrating.
I really hope you are right in that we will get more Gods, but I am scared its just going to be more gritty ones (like Talos) and continuing their habit of each race having a token God (like theyll add Gruumsh when we get half orc) ... im genuinely convinced they will overlook Lathander despite his prominence becsuse they dont personally find him cool.
I think you could only select 3 gods in the first version of EA and now there are more (not 100% sure).
I guess we will get more gods on release, just as we get more races and classes and party members.
I would be more optimistic if I was shown we had less gods before and more had been added.
I really do hope we get more Gods at release. I just pray to the morninglord that Lathander is amongst them.
