⛩️ Pantheon, gods & custom races

👤 For: Game Masters · 💳 Plan: All plans · 🔄 Updated 2026-10-14

Give every world its own gods and peoples. Inside a world you can build a deity pantheon — homebrew or cloned from a built-in SRD template — and define the races that live there, either as custom homebrew or adopted from the D&D SRD.

What it does

Pantheon / Gods and Races are two sections inside the world detail view. They are world-scoped lore: each world keeps its own list of pantheons (with the gods inside them) and its own list of races. Nothing here is shared automatically with another world — it belongs to the world you opened.

• Pantheons group deities. Each god carries a name, a title/portfolio, an alignment, recommended cleric domains, and a description.
• Races describe the peoples of the world — size, speed, ability bonuses, traits, and lore.

Both sections work the same way: create something of your own, or copy a licensed SRD entry as a starting point and edit it freely.

When to use it

• You're building a homebrew setting and want a custom pantheon your clerics and paladins can worship.
• You want a quick mythological pantheon (Greek, Norse, Egyptian, Celtic) without typing out every god.
• The world has non-standard peoples — a homebrew race, or you simply want to record which SRD races are native here so the table knows what they'll meet.
• You're preparing the World Events / Deicide beats and need named gods to fall (see Worlds & Planes).

You don't need this for a one-shot on a single continent — it's prep depth for worlds you'll return to.

Where to find it

Open a world from the 🌍 Worlds page (click its card or Edit). Scroll down past Planes to the Pantheon / Gods section, and below it the Races section.

Pantheon / Gods

Creating a pantheon

1. In the world detail view, find Pantheon / Gods and click + New Pantheon.
2. A modal opens with two tabs:
   • From SRD template — clone a complete mythological pantheon, gods included.
   • Custom — type a Name (e.g. Gods of the North) and an optional Description, then click Create.
3. The new pantheon appears as a card showing its name, description, and god count.

💡 Tip: Adopting an SRD template gives you a full pantheon in one click — then delete the gods you don't want and add your own. Faster than starting from a blank page.

The four SRD template pantheons

The From SRD template tab offers four historical pantheons from the D&D System Reference Document 5.1. Cloning one copies the pantheon and every god inside it into your world, where they become fully editable.

These are the only built-in pantheons. They are licensed content (CC-BY-4.0) and carry a small license badge; the attribution stays visible even after you edit them. No setting-specific gods from licensed campaign settings are included — those are protected and not part of the SRD.

Managing gods

Click a pantheon card (or Open) to see its deity list. From here:

• + Add God — opens the deity editor.
• Edit any god to change its fields.
• Delete a god from the pantheon.

Each god card shows an icon (or symbol image), name, alignment badge, title, domain badges, and description.

The deity editor

Click Save to commit. SRD-templated gods you edit keep their license badge and a note reminding you the attribution stays visible.

The demo world comes with its own pantheon, Die Wächter der Schwelle — this is its god list:

Gods connect to other systems

Gods you define aren't isolated lore. They become link targets elsewhere in your prep:

• Plotlines — link a quest or storyline to a deity (e.g. the cult of Set).
• World Events / Deicide — a god is the subject of a Deicide event, and player characters can hold a deity bond to one.

So building the pantheon first pays off when you wire up your story later.

Races

The Races section sits below Pantheon / Gods. It has two tabs:

• My Races — the world's own races (custom + adopted).
• SRD Races — the SRD reference races you can adopt.

Adding a custom race

1. Click + New Race.
2. Fill in the editor:

3. Click Save. The race appears under My Races.

Adopting an SRD race

Switch to the SRD Races tab to browse the SRD reference races. Each shows its name, a license badge, size/speed/bonus line, and traits. Click Add to world to copy it into your world, where it becomes editable. A race already adopted shows an In world badge instead of the button.

💡 Tip: Adopted SRD races pre-fill name, traits, and stats. Custom races you create from scratch start blank apart from the name — fill in size, speed, and bonuses yourself.

[ My Races ]  [ SRD Races ]
   ┌──────────────────────────────────────────────┐
   │ 🧝 Elf                          [CC-BY-4.0]     │
   │    Medium · 30 ft. · +2 Dex                     │
   │    Darkvision, Fey Ancestry, Trance             │
   │                            [ Add to world ]     │
   └──────────────────────────────────────────────┘

What races here are (and aren't) used for

Races you record in a world are world lore and GM reference — a list of the peoples your party can meet, with stats and culture notes you can lean on while you run.

⚠️ A world's race list is separate from the race picker in player character creation, which draws on the full D&D SRD race catalogue. Adding a homebrew race to a world does not (today) make it selectable in the character-creation wizard — keep custom races as prep/lore and assign them to a character's notes by hand.

Editing and deleting

• Pantheons, gods, and races all support inline Edit and Delete from their cards.
• Deleting a pantheon removes all the gods inside it (confirmation required).
• Deleting a race removes only that race.
• Edits to SRD-cloned content are kept locally to your world — they never change the original SRD reference.

Costs

Creating pantheons, gods, and races — custom or cloned from SRD templates — is free on every plan and costs no Threads. There is no AI generation in this section. See Threads & costs for where Threads do apply.

Troubleshooting

Related articles

• 🌍 Worlds & Planes — the world view these sections live in
• 📜 Plotlines — link quests to a deity
• 📜 Story & World — the single-world text fallback
• ✨ Character creation — how players pick a race
• 📕 SRD Rulebook — the full licensed reference catalogue