Deity selection

Egyptian all the way. That culture has always interested me greatly anyway. Plus, their gods look cool as hell.

Where's Rallos Zek?

The the night is dark and full of terrors.

Abrahamic. The older-than-old-testament War in Heaven / Angels with Swords of Flame / Prophecy 3 "you're all monkies" variety. If you're talking about a creative base for game it offers significant advantages to the other defined mythos -- mostly in that it's barely defined at beyond ambiance and a few important names. Gabriel, Michael, Lucifer -- how much of the heavenly host can you actually name? How many ever have been? The forgotten and fanciful shamanistic/tribal warlord roots. Which is pre-abrahamic but not exactly entirely pagan.

South American I guess is 2nd choice if you're just looking for something easy and thematic which isn't utterly predictable.

As much as I like Greek, Norse, Celtic, and Egyptian... snore.

I am going with Elric's patron Arioch Lord of the Seven Darks, Knight of the Swords, Lord of the Higher Hell.

Have to get the First edition of Deities and Demi-Gods to find his stats. They removed the Moorcock universe from later editions.




Honorable mention goes to the Monkey King

Isn't it obvious what I'll choose?

BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD

Think I'll have to go with Abrahamic; considering the other choices:

Greek: too much risk that you, or someone you love, will be raped by a god in the shape of a giant duck, or something similar.

Egyptian:Waytoo much studying to get into that afterlife; the litany of shit you need to recite to get a good seat in the underworld is slightly excessive.

Hindu: can't eat steak, so that's out.

Mesoamerican: too great a risk of having your heart ripped out of your chest.

Norse: too unnecessarily violent. Might be interesting to watch, not so much to participate in.

So yeah, I'll stick with the good ol' Abrahamic faiths.

Pantheism, the gods and the universe are the same thing, or at least the gods have no time for us they are busy creating new things.

Tezcatlipoca
Kind of hard to not be a badass in the Aztec pantheon.

Celtic. Was on the fence between Celtic and Norse, loving both their mythologies, Norse are more badass but you're basically fucked for an afterlife unless you die in battle, so I went with the other guys. Odin is still a badass though. Jesus died on a cross after 3 days for our sins, Odin hung upside down off Yggdrasil for 9 days to give us the runes and managed to survive the process.

Have fun in eternal madness you heathen fucks.

Praise science.

Iam from scandinavia so it wasent much of a choice really, norse all the way

Honestly, anyone who picks anything other than Norse is a pansy ass.