Okay so I thought it might be useful to start a thread as a way of bouncing ideas off of people. I know I could probabily start this discussion in the QQ Fanclub server too but its useful to have job stuff in its own little area.

For the most part, my experience of building cosmologies comes from the 2014 Dungeon Master's guide. Chapter 1 of that book lists out a lot of good ideas for cosmology. For example making the gods physical and walking the earth as opposed to being in an etheral relm. It also gives examples of domains, tight versus loose pantheons and a sample pantheon.

The thing is I know I want to make a non-traditional fantasy setting but Im not overly sure in what way I want to do it. Some ideas I have involve:

• All the gods being long dead.
• The whole relm being a ringworld.
• Some kind of sci-fi elements.

But most of it im currently unsure of. It would be nice to get someone's opinion and bounce further ideas off of them.

I feel like a fun science-fiction dead gods trope is playing with the idea of gods bodies floating around in space. Are the bodies of dead gods a natural resource that are mined for the god-oil that is required for faster than light travel? Are they not dead, but just dormant, and there are factions trying to wake them up? Does one's proximity to a dead god affect the strength of one's space magic (close you can do Jedi stuff, but far away, your in no-magic hard sci-fi land)? Is it not the gods that are dead, but the people!? Etc.!