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In the polytheistic pantheons of many Dungeons and Dragons campaign settings, there are quite often multiple gods who are said to have died or who have fallen out of worship. There is, however, a significant amount of gray area concerning the nature of deities in Dungeons & Dragons and whether they can die. Generally, each campaign setting has its own set of rules regarding the death of deities, and the universal d20 System books that cover them accommodate multiple popular sets of rules. In the Greyhawk campaign setting, Orcus could be considered a dead god; in the Forgotten Realms, examples include Bhaal and Amaunator .Since they no longer have widespread followings, the gods of the Ancient Egyptian, Ancient Assyrian, Ancient Mesopotamian, Native American, Norse, and various other mythologiesMythologies is the title of a 1972 book by Roland Barthes (BooksEnthsiast.com). It is a collection of essays examining the tendency of contemporary social value systems to create modern myths. Barthes also looks at the semiology of the process of myth creati are said to be dead gods in the context of several Dungeons & Dragons products, although this is generally not the case, and in fact the Egyptian gods were adapted in Deities and Demigods for the Third Edition of the game.
Deities of Dungeons & Dragons
