Maxperson
Morkus from Orkus
If you give it stats, players will try to kill it.If you give it stats, players will kill it.
If you give it stats, players will try to kill it.If you give it stats, players will kill it.
That's as far as I got. Unintentional or not, but yea, I just got that far and asked myself, is the rest of this post also toxic masculinity?Isn't it unmanly
That's news to me, considering 2E's Deities & Demigods, Faith & Avatars, Powers & Pantheons, Die Vecna Die!, 3E's Age of Worms et al. And at least the 3E versions of those deity books and as recent as Rime of the Frostmaiden.Killing gods was one of the best ideas from AD&D. I was very disappointed that they dropped it for 2e.
You can't kill the deities in those books. Since 2e you can only kill their avatars.That's news to me, considering 2E's Deities & Demigods, Faith & Avatars, Powers & Pantheons, Die Vecna Die!, 3E's Age of Worms et al. And at least the 3E versions of those deity books and as recent as Rime of the Frostmaiden.
With the LoP, she's obviously needed to make the setting work, and they went extremely far out of their way to make it hard for people to take her personally, by depersonalizing her, making her into a faceless, nameless inhuman entity who doesn't intervene in day-to-day affairs, so that was the opposite of a screw-up. Nonetheless a lot of people had a weird adversarial attitude to her, which again to me, is like getting mad with a piece of street furniture.
And you're just assuming she's a god. The real power might come from Sigil itself and she only controls it. She might be Sigil's slave. She might be a front for a league of gods. She might be the force of the multiverse personified. She might a god level avatar of someone or something unimaginably more powerful. She might be a level one commoner who just found some amazing blade shaped artifacts. She might be the DM. She might be Pain, the way there is an antropomorphized Death.
See, that's the deal and why I know it's bad writing:/shrug. Different strokes and all. If your first impulse on reading a setting is to immediately upend it and smash what makes it work, I'd say the setting isn't for you. But that doesn't make the conceits upon which it runs inherently bad writing (though there are plenty that are, I just disagree on this particular one). See also water creation spells not working in Darksun.
Again this is profound point-missing.This just gets worse when you make that loadbearing concept into a person and then make the world treat them like the ultimate badass who gets to tell you what you can and can't do with no recourse, no slapping them in their smug faces, now throwing them down and reveling in their ruin, not even flipping them off and calling them a few choice names -- the world just says 'no, you lose and they win forever, lol'.