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4 months ago ::
Jan 30, 2013 - 2:15PM
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Apr 15, 2001
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We have a game on Sunday and I am putting a bit of effort into world building for the PCs. I want to put them in a frontier environment and the goal is to explore annd establish a colony/town for themselves somewhere. Elements of the Kingmaker Adventre Path will be used but the focus is on a single settlement. Ayway I'm throwing around various thoughts on the cosmology I want to use and the Pantheoen. The cosmology will not be that important but I was a quick and rapid Pantheon covering most of the roles that the 3.5 and 4th ed gods had. I'm not to worried about mixing and matching gods from various settings. I am crap at naming gods however but I do not want silly names used or titles. Bane falls into silly name syndrome along with Wee Jas and the Raven Queen is out as well. Zehir is a bit differnet though and I like the name and the Yuan Ti will be one of the major factions so he will make it in. So guys you can help me come up with a quick Pantheon of gods on short notice. Any god from any edition of D&D, Camapign setting, Pathfinder and homebrew is fine. Ones I like so far. Amauntor (Sun/Law/Time) Avandra (Luck) Desna (Moon) Erathis (Civilization) Gorum (War) Melora (Nature/Sea) Nethys (Magic) Saranrae (Healing, Sun) Zehir (Poison/Assassins/ Serpentfolk) Portfolios may change as so far it is based on names I like. Erathis may become a male nature god for example. Not sure about Amauntor/Saranrae or even if I will havve 2 sun gods and a separate healing god. oh well I need around 20 names covering the major portfolio's  .
Reducing a character to a list of dice rolls and modifiers is not role playing*
*pg 30, AD&D 2nd Ed DMG, 1989.
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4 months ago ::
Jan 30, 2013 - 7:37PM
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How about taking a "real" pantheon and using it in your game?
Roman, Mesopotamic, Celtic, etc.
Take its list of gods and a quick description of each, then add the attributions of "Luck, Sun, Was, etc" for each.
Mesopotamic is a fun one, rarely used.
And it even has Tiamat (although he's more like a giant snake and not a many-headed dragon as usually portrayed in D&D).
Could be fun.
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4 months ago ::
Jan 30, 2013 - 8:16PM
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Apr 15, 2001
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Not a fan of RL pantheons in D&D
Reducing a character to a list of dice rolls and modifiers is not role playing*
*pg 30, AD&D 2nd Ed DMG, 1989.
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4 months ago ::
Jan 30, 2013 - 8:24PM
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Not a fan of RL pantheons in D&D
I agree, they need to take out all the real life Deities in D&D so that some people aren't offended.
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4 months ago ::
Jan 30, 2013 - 9:36PM
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Apr 15, 2001
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Its not that Lokiare I just don't like using the Norse/Egyptian/Greek etc pantheons in a D&D game and I do not like copies of them in game or using fantasy versions of those civilisations.
Reducing a character to a list of dice rolls and modifiers is not role playing*
*pg 30, AD&D 2nd Ed DMG, 1989.
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4 months ago ::
Jan 30, 2013 - 11:26PM
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Its not that Lokiare I just don't like using the Norse/Egyptian/Greek etc pantheons in a D&D game and I do not like copies of them in game or using fantasy versions of those civilisations.
You are aware that a few of the FR dieties are drawn from RL pantheons & given FR backgrounds, aren't you?
They took the name & what they were responisble for & plugged 'em right in....
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4 months ago ::
Jan 31, 2013 - 1:10AM
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I'd throw Torog into the mix, he was always my favorite deity personally. And if the domains he covers don't seem to be enough i'd bet giving him a couple more domains (and possibly pulling him from the underdark) would suit him quite well. Though personally I like him underground as the deity people fear to speak of.
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4 months ago ::
Jan 31, 2013 - 2:15AM
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Date Joined:
Dec 19, 2007
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4 months ago ::
Jan 31, 2013 - 2:19AM
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Date Joined:
Apr 15, 2001
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Its not that Lokiare I just don't like using the Norse/Egyptian/Greek etc pantheons in a D&D game and I do not like copies of them in game or using fantasy versions of those civilisations.
You are aware that a few of the FR dieties are drawn from RL pantheons & given FR backgrounds, aren't you?
They took the name & what they were responisble for & plugged 'em right in....
Yup and I don't like those deities either.
I don't like the name Torog Ahearn.
Blake I am using some of the 4th ed names, I don't like a few of the deities (Bane, Raven Queen, a few others).
Reducing a character to a list of dice rolls and modifiers is not role playing*
*pg 30, AD&D 2nd Ed DMG, 1989.
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