Our beloved Pretenders!

[thejeff]

Not sure I can agree with that.

If some pretenders are weak (expensive, not adding diversity, etc) but thematically cool, while others are cheap or strong but boring or unthematic, that's not a feature even if there's disagreement over which is the worse problem.

Better to come up with strong thematic gods for the nationals. And there are some. Gorgon is probably the most commonly used example. National pretenders should be special.