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Just wanted to do a quick poll on who your favorite human deities of the Faerunian pantheon were.

Oh, thinking about this some more, I'll probably likely use humanoid (avatar) as a designation for any deities that were previously mortal prior to apotheosis, so this'll include Valkur, Bane and his ilk. Otherwise, Tiamat's avatar would be a fiend, Selune's and Lathander's avatars would be...

Hi everyone, hope you've all been well! Just wanted to give a heads up that I haven't abandoned this project nor have I died :p, but real life has been very intrusive. I've actually been thinking of iterating the stats of Valkur again (and by extension the rest of the other deities), and...

I've only just gotten a hold of Guildmaster's Guide to Ravnica and Dungeon of the Mad Mage, and I've been slowly digesting the contents of the two ever since. From what I've read so far, these are really high quality and well written products! GGtR has actually inspired me to write backgrounds...

While I appreciate the sidebar on divinity in the DMG, I also see it as an optional rule. I'm moreso inspired by the 2e Faiths and Avatars line, 3e Faiths and Pantheons, 5e Tiamat and the other 5e high-tier monsters. I also prefer the separation of divine strata into demi-, lesser, intermediate...

Back in my 3.5e homebrewing days, I made some deities which can be found here http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?111306-Of-Deities-and-Demigods And subsequently suffered burnout lol. I was thinking of leaving Tiamat and Maglubiyet for the time being and instead concentrate on...

I would likewise argue fighting the avatar of a greater god would also entail a near unwinnable fight at the worst or an exceedingly, perhaps horrendously, difficult one. Avatars can be killed but that also doesn't mean fighting one would be easy or even achievable without sufficiently powerful...

An increasing AC salient ability is a cool idea. I'll see what I can do to increase AC in certain deities; a god like Helm would be all about that. Having said that, I actually like the nature of bounded accuracy in 5e and working within the confines of the flattened numbers we're seeing, and...

By the 4e version of Bane, do you still mean the FR Bane or do you also mean the Nentir Vale Bane? Way back when I was homebrewing for 3.5e, I actually made some stats for Tempus and Maglubiyet. They can be found in this thread...

Oh, which gods would people like to see next?

I don't think I agree that high CR monsters, especially the avatars of greater gods would necessarily give a fair fight. As avatars of greater gods, this already means fairness is on the low-rung of any scale. Combats involving them aren't necessarily going to be fair and survivable. Again, in...

The Blinded condition however states "A blinded creature can't see and automatically fails any ability check that requires sight. Attack rolls against the creature have advantage, and the creature's attack rolls have disadvantage." Also, you're blinded, so you can still make Perception checks...

I wouldn't mind testing the avatars in a numbers game; but how would your level 17 warlock probably solo Valkur? I've included a Divine Blast attack, which was a plan for inclusion for almost if not all of the avatars, an Enlarge ability for Valkur, who is described as being depicted as a...

Yeah, I should include a paragraph to basically introduce the premise of this thread, how Volo's and Mordenkainen's did theirs. I'll do that.

How do you figure? Something like his Calm the Tides basically means an elder tempest's living storm, lightning storm, lightning strike and screaming gale don't function in a 120 foot radius. Spells like storm of vengeance also wouldn't fully function. Maybe I can increase the radius to 1 mile...

Heh, my reasoning for this was that Valkur is noted as being capricious with his attention, a lovely siren or mermaid probably causes him to stray all the time. However, as the avatar of a god he really should be immune to the charmed condition. I've included that in the statblock. I've also...

If I were statting the actual deities themselves, I'd definitely have their hit dice go off d20s. The avatars, on the other hand, would still all likely have humanoid hit dice, or just as likely have hit dice based off their creature type. However, I'll include regeneration based off their...

I disagree that statblocks by themselves lack any inherent RP details or inspiration, especially ones that aren't entirely made up of just combat abilities. But nonetheless good point, I'll add something later. Stay tuned.

That's a good point, but I'm trying to design the avatars of gods rather than working on full deity writeups; the gods themselves would have the full complement of reality warping and altering powers but the avatars, being limited in scope, would lack this. I was thinking of giving each of the...

Gods and avatars are at the heart of this thread – which category of divinity they fall into, how they express their portfolios, how they envision their avatars, what spheres of influence they tend to. In the Forgotten Realms, the deities are defined and shaped by mortal worship, and divine...