I want to say its worth the price, since its free, but its largely just a PDF of the author's "Wouldn't it be funny if there were a god of ____" pop-culture reference stand-up routine.
For the most part this PDF contains things that aren't really useful to a campaign or setting, and are largely just there for you to go "There's a god for that in the pdf I downloaded! LOL" if someone makes an offhand comment about something at the table.
As some examples; there is a god of Holding in Farts, a goddess of sexy Elven barmaids, a goddess of repeatedly giving into sexual urges, and a god of "Seemingly random misfortune and fortune while in combat". The majority of the selections are of similar quality, with a few exceptions buried under the pile of thoughtless entries.
There is decent material. The section on cults seems interesting, and a few of the gods are well developed, but this material is so densily written and overwhelmed by the useless padding material that you'd be better to seek the information it provides elsewhere.
The artwork is extremely inconsistent, likely because the book has what looks to be 100+ artists. Its detailed, but not very interesting. There are a lot of random naked chicks and the pictures are most of them are generally uninspired subject matter. For example, lot of the gods' are either just a smudge of fog/mist/shadow/ooze, a hooded figure in dark robes, or a completely mundane person or animal. Like the aforementioned Goddess of Elven Barmaids is a computer-drawn clipart of a girl in a skimpy german barmaid costume with elf ears.
Its mostly done in a style that mimics the sort of old D&D artwork, but with little charm or distinctive characteristics between the subjects the art captures. It feels like too much time was spent making jokes or pulling together artwork, and not enough time was spent assuring that the artwork was evocative or inspiring.
For the most part this PDF contains things that aren't really useful to a campaign or setting, and are largely just there for you to go "There's a god for that in the pdf I downloaded! LOL" if someone makes an offhand comment about something at the table.
I want to say its worth the price, but ultimately the fact that you have to sift through a majority of useless content to find the few interesting bits makes it too much effort for too little value.
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