The setting is a generic D&D-esque fantasy world, with one

Best: Neutral
Worst: CE

Best - Chaotic Neutral aka Chaotic Evil
Worst - Chaotic Evil / Chaotic Good

You know, with alignment subtypes, it is actually possible for a character (or deity) to have every alignment. You could be Lawful Chaotic Evil Good Neutral.

Best - Lawful Lawful
Worst - Good Evil Neutral

>>49058173
Best is neutral.
Worst is CE/LG

>>49058173

Lawful. They're the gods of man and of order and of the world. Opposed to them is the faceless force of Chaos, the ocean of void lapping at the edges of the world, fraying it and wearing it away, threatening to flood across the world and tear it asunder.
Magic is using the chaotic force to selectively negate the order that the gods have imposed on the world, a selfish act that can gain you power, at the cost of weakening the world's very structure.

True Neutral. Each god covers opposing concepts and it's up to the individual cleric what part of their portfolio they most promote (e.g. a NG cleric of the Goddess of Health and Disease would focus on healing miracles while a NE cleric would throw out curses and plagues).

Best - Neutral Good but inscrutable. They actually have the best interests of their creation at heart but they can't always explain why they do the things they do because of the limited nature of said creations.

Worst - Any of the evil alignments, but especially CE. Reverse theodicy: they would desire negative outcomes, they would have the power necessary to bring those outcomes about, and they would have no compunction doing so. Short of nerfing them down to not-actually-gods there's not game to be played there.

>>49058659
What?

>>49058173
Best: Chaotic Neutral

If all your deities are Good, you have to explain why Evil exists that the players need to fight.
If your deities are Lawful, you have to explain why the world isn't better organised.
If your deities are Evil, the world is one giant murder ball.

Chaotic Neutral leaves room for shenanigans and for the mortals to create Good and Law from whole cloth.

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>>49058173
LG

>>49061380
This.
You could also do it as Chaotic Good, with each deity trying to impose their own view of what's best.
>EG the necromancer vampire god thinks the most morally correct thing to do is to put the weak out of their misery and use the bodies to do menial labor so the living don't have to.

>>49061483
>LG
kek.

>>49060504
Gods should only be interested in establishing rules that suit their worldview.

Attributing any kind of morality to a god is foolish in the extreme.

>>49059115
This one is neat.