Monstrous Compendium Vol. 1: Spelljammer Creatures
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So with the magic side of D&D getting a big boost with Unearthed Arcana coming out. Any chance we might get some God and Goddess based lore expansion content?
Cause I really love the interaction (or sometimes lack of interaction) between players, characters, the world and the Divine. Sadly for a lot of the lore you do have to go back into the older editions (namely 3 and 3.5) for most of it. 5 and 5.5 seem to have very little to give about the gods other than a sentence of description their Domains and their Symbols. I would really like a deeper dive into the Divine of D&D.
We're unlikely to get stuff dedicated specifically to deities given they vary so much between settings. We got more information on the Faerun pantheons in the two FR books. More god stuff is likely to come with future setting books
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Deities are (relatively) setting-specific, so we will tend only to see much discussion of pantheons in sourcebooks for the relevant setting. There was actually a fairly big section in the Forgotten Realms: Heroes of Faerûn book. (The recent Eberron book didn’t include anything more than a few brief mentions, but it was quite a slim book and they seemed to be trying to avoid duplicating the Rising from the Last War book.)
I’m going to echo everyone else and say that a book just for the various pantheons seems unlikely. Now a book for divine themed player options that updates the remaining Cleric subclasses from the 2014 PHB on the other hand could work
Theros has a really deep dive into the gods there. Otherwise, as others said, gods are very setting specific, so it wouldn’t be a gods book as much as a chapter about the gods in this particular world. Heck, if they do release a Dark Sun book as expected, that world has no gods at all.
Theros is a setting book that goes into the Theran gods only, which are very setting specific. So it's not different from other setting books. Why did you call it out as distinct?
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The OP was asking about gods, and Theros does a really deep dive into the gods in that setting. I’d go so far as to say it’s done with more depth than any of the other settings, which makes sense as they are arguably more integral to the setting than in others. I thought it was worth calling out if they are looking for something with a high level of god-lore.