The worst of all the original D&D supplements by far, this 70 page book is also the largest of the supplements and officially the last one, there would be another one, Swords & Spells, later in the year, but that wasn’t numbered as a supplement. 

This is frankly a nearly useless supplement, it consists solely of stat blocks and descriptions of gods from many pantheons, from the Egyptian, Greek, Nordic, Celtic, Finnish and other religions, as well as some fictional ones (Hyborian gods from Conan or from the world of Elric of Melniboné, for example). It’s pretty badly researched as most of the gods have really erroneous descriptions of what they were all about, which becomes particularly problematic when they are dealing with living religions such as the Indian pantheon and Chinese Buddhist beings, all of which are still worshiped today and are reduced to simplistic caricatures here with hit points and all.

This seems to be addressing a problem which is described in the foreword of the book as well as in previous issues of The Strategic Review about some players going all the way up to level 40, the gods here seem to set a top level with which players can be compared. If Odin has only 300 hp and the powers of a lvl 20 fighter, it’s hard to believe in a level 40 human fighter. That is one of the uses of the book, but a whole supplement to make that point seems to be too much. A useful thing I can find here, though, are the lists for divine items, from Mjolnir to Toth Amon’s ring, which could make for prized items in Raiders of the Lost Ark type adventures.