List of Dead Gods..

honestly, that doesn't sound too convincing. I understand from On Hallowed Ground that deities gather power from not just the number of worshippers at any given time, but mostly from petitioners who merge with them. Yes, humans may be numerous, but they are also divided among the countless pantheons, while every dragon who has ever lived believed in the same pantheon. Consider a race like goblins; they may not be too fervent believers individually, but theres so many of them that it is said for a new petitioner to arrive in acheron an old petitioner must perish.
Now, another approach to this would be to assume that human pantheons are worshipped by humans by other races before humans. Kind of like Bast is the deity of felines. For example you go to your Powers realm, and while you are expecting to see humans and perhaps some mythical creatures, you will see that there are many different races that you don't recognise. I think this would be inspiring to the worshipper, because he will realise that his god is actually more widely known that even he imagined.
Which would lead me to my other thought that the number of core playable races in DnD is too low.

You know, that's another idea I have toyed with. After all, their alignments and portfolios match, and they are very similar. OTOH, Takhisis is now dead and Paladine is mortal, while Bahamut and Tiamat sit unchanged (ignoring 4e nonsense). Furthermore I like to keep my draconic powers as draconic powers, not that ridiculous "Bahamut is now the main paladin god" (Which i believe that to be the main reason they offed Tyr in the realms). I believe the dragon gods could easily be intermediate powers, while keeping Io as a greater power.

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On the matter of Takhisis death... assuming she dies, since she was stripped of her godhood before she was killed, would we find a corpse floating in the Astral? Or did she just rot like all common mortals? Would that mean she became a simple petitioner?

All of those Geocities sites were probably saved in Reocities: just change the URL and they should work. At least some of Tiefling's Exultation was saved this way.

You can try this with any Geocities site you're trying to get to, although Reocities hasn't retrieved everything.

Ripvanwormer, thanks for posting those long lists (they aren't preserved on Reocities, either). Is there any way to tell which parts are Planescape canon, which are from other D&D lines, and which are fan-made?)

The list of dragon kings in the Dark Sun setting looks like it's accurate as far as Dark Sun and Planescape canon goes, though the name "Athasspace" for Athas's crystal sphere is speculative, I think.

The Gray is described as a nonstandard border ethereal in A Guide to the Ethereal Plane, not a demiplane.

The nature of the Black is unknown. The description of it as a demiplane that blocks access to the Plane of Shadow is speculative. Dungeon #110 describes the Black as Athas's Plane of Shadow; by 3rd edition rules, it would probably be connected to Deep Shadow and the shadow-reflections of other worlds.

In The Inner Planes, Athas seems to be connected to the standard Planescape inner planes, so as far as Planescape canon goes I'd ignore the idea that there are four special demiplanes that connect only to Athas. However, the paraelemental planes of Silt, Magma, Rain, and Sun are Dark Sun canon, so this may be a place where the setting canon diverges from the Planescape canon, or the people of Athas may simply be aware of different regions of the Inner Planes than the people of Sigil are.

None of the gods of Azeroth are Planescape canon, of course.

The Birthright gods look canonical.

The gods of dream might count as "other setting canon," since the Region of Dreams is part of the ethereal color curtains in Planescape, not an outer plane as suggested in the Dragon article that those gods came from.

The information on the Eberron gods look canonical, though the Eberron setting was never officially connected to Planescape, so might count as "other setting canon."

The Book of Exalted Deeds gods look accurate, though they're not an official part of the Planescape setting. Phieran is similar to Ilmater, though we can't say more than that. The realm names given are speculative.

Calling the home of the Ghostwalk gods a demiplane is speculative.

The information on the gods of Krynn looks true to Planescape canon, though note that Takhisis dying and Paladine abdicating is something that happens several decades in the future of the Planescape setting.

The information on the gods of Melnibone comes from 1st edition Deities & Demigods, and is probably Planescape canon insofar as it's never been contradicted, though licensing issues prevented them from saying so officially. The demiplane names are speculative, I think, and it might make more sense to place the various beast lords in the Beastlands. The note about the lords of Law and Chaos dwelling on multiple planes simultaneously is canon, and one of the weird things you'd occasionally find in 1st edition Deities & Demigods.

A lot of the planes given to Mystaran Immortals are fanon. I'd proceed cautiously. Some of it contradicts Warriors of Heaven, which as a late 2nd edition source is probably (unfortunately) Planescape canon.

The list of Nehwon gods is from Legends & Lore, though note that Godsland is not part of the Astral Plane; it's a physical part of the world of Nehwon.

Most of what it says about the Greyhawk gods is canon. The planes given for the Olman deities are unofficial, and based on the assumption that these gods are the same as their Maztican counterparts; officially, those gods probably dwell where Deities & Demigods and Legends & Lore said they did, among the stars of a Prime world.

A few of the planes given for lesser Greyhawk deities are inaccurate or based on guesswork. For example, Beltar lives in Carceri, not Pandemonium, and Norebo lives in Pandemonium, not Limbo, according to their original Dragon articles. We don't actually know that Vatun lives in Ysgard (he's currently imprisoned on an unknown demiplane).

All the planes given for the Touv pantheon are fanon. The official word from Sean K. Reynolds was that those gods live on Oerth, similar to 4th edition spirits.

I'm not certain if it's completely cut and dried that the Ravenloft gods are all false, but it could be.

I don't know where the Taltos gods come from, but I think they're all unofficial.

The Forgotten Realms stuff looks canonical, but I'm skeptical about the Kara-Tur gods. I don't know enough about the setting to know if they should really be identical to various Earth pantheons, as many of them are here. I don't think the name "The Empire of Heaven" is official. Ravana's home realm is unofficial, taken from A Tiefling's Exultation (based on Dragon #84, the name of his realm should be Patalam, although it is in Acheron).

Clang might be the same as Moradin, rather than Clangeddin Silverbeard (despite the name).

The various vile gods are probably demigods (like their exalted counterparts) rather than lesser gods. Their home planes are speculative.

The home planes and ranks given for the warrior gods are speculative.

We don't know where A'Gallamiul lives officially; placing him in Raxivort's realm is speculative fanon.

I don't think there's anything official on medusa religion except for the 4th edition idea that they worship Zehir, though it would make sense for some of them to revere Shekinester.

I'm sleepy, and I'm done for now. A lot of the fanon stuff was taken from A Tiefling's Exultation rather than an official source. It would be helpful to look at the gods_list .pdf that Alzrius made to check to see what's official and what isn't. Also, check the Planewalker wiki, where I tried very hard to stick to official lore. It should have entries for virtually all the gods mentioned in Planescape, giving their official realm names if there are any.

Most of the information on the Persian pantheon is from A Tiefling's Exultation, except the Guide to Hell identification of Ahriman with Asmodeus. Whether that can be called "Planescape canon" in light of later contradictory versions of Asmodeus is doubtful. The identification of Ormahzd with Jazirian would be logical, but is purely speculative.

In the end, I don't think it matters much what's canon and what isn't. If it seems good to you, use it, and if you'd rather change it, do so.

On the Ravenloft gods, I think Ezra might be a real deity. If any of them are, she's the most likely to be. The Morninglord is definitely fake - he is, in fact, the elven vampire Jander Sunstar.

I can't find those Caananite gods on Alzrius' list, and they badly contradict the Babylonian and Sumerian gods, so I hope they're not official.

I'd like to discuss this, hopefully with somebody who knows more about the Mesopotamian gods than I do.

No, they're from A Tiefling's Exultation. I don't see how they contradict anything, though; they're a separate pantheon.

The reason is that, according to Alzrius' list, Ashera, Anat, Yerah/Yarikh, and El are alternate names of Ninhursag, Innana and Ishtar, Nanna/Sin, and Anu, respectively, and that their alignments contradict the official ones. Plus, Enlil and Marduk are listed as alternative names for each other.

However, I don't like the official versions anyway. In my opinion, the Babylonian and Sumerian gods should be the same pantheon and the Caananite pantheon should be separate, except that Yarikh (husband of Nikkal) really does seem to be the same moon god as Nanna/Sin (husband of Ningal). And Marduk and Enlil being the same god seems incorrect. But like I said, I'm not very familiar with the Mesopotamian deities.

I guess I phrased it wrong to say I "hope" they're unofficial. The official material is already self-contradictory, and Yarikh and maybe El are the only two Caananite gods of that list that I'd actually attach to Mesopotamian analogs.