Standard fantasy RPG pantheon, except:
- each god is also the patron of one of the setting’s local city-states, and each city-state espouses their own version of the pantheon’s org chart that positions their patron as King or Queen of the Gods. The gods themselves decline to weigh in on who’s correct.
- the god of war died in a bizarre trebuchet accident several decades previously; a coalition of other gods have been playing Weekend at Bernie’s with their priesthood ever since, doing their best to answer their prayers with variable plausibility and success.
- there are two separate gods of knowledge with two separate, non-overlapping cults. Each god’s cult is apparently unaware of the other’s existence. There’s nothing obviously supernatural about this separation; they just never seem to bump into each other.
- the supreme god of the Nice Pantheon of Goodness and Light and the supreme god of the Icky Pantheon of Evil and Darkness are clearly the same guy wearing two different hats. Most NPCs react to having this pointed out as though it’s obviously absurd.
- the obligatory Squiddy Alien Gods From Beyond The Stars are treated as just another branch of the pantheon alongside the usual faux-Greek deities. Nobody thinks it’s at all odd that the god of thunder’s sworn blood-sibling is a shapeless cloud of blazing eyes.
I feel #2 has serious potential.