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    D&D General The Role and Purpose of Evil Gods

    But we are clearly told in subsequent supplements like Faith & Avatar (FR), On Hallowed Ground (PS) and The Inner Planes (PS)
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    D&D General The Role and Purpose of Evil Gods

    What make them any different? Some of the best known primordials were just deities before 4e came up with the concept and upon saying "these guys are now totally primordials and always have been" absolutely nothing changed for them. Not their churches, not their clerics, nothing. Kossuth is the...
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    D&D General The Role and Purpose of Evil Gods

    Not just one, but a whole pantheon. At least two were named (Gorellik and Refnara Moon-Biter). As of 3e Gorellik was still alive, but losing almost all worshippers reduced him to demigod status. He had given up any hopes of re-gaining his former glory vs. Yeenoghu and simply wandered the lower...
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    D&D General The Role and Purpose of Evil Gods

    About Orcus' history (pre-4e ditching everything), there one Shane O’Conno once took the effort to compile everything into a single PDF. Unfortunately I no longer have a copy stored (or stored away where I have idead it is) and google only yielded one hit for an attachment to an old post here at...
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    D&D General The Role and Purpose of Evil Gods

    The case with Tiamat in early 3e vs. late 3e is more about the deity rules of 3e not being done when they first printed Tiamat and Bahamut in the MotP as opposed to a deliberate attempt to revoke and later restore their divinity. She was not in the PHB because almost no deity was in the PHB...
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    D&D General The Role and Purpose of Evil Gods

    That's 4e who just started to disregard all shared D&D lore that came before, threw it on the garbage heap and re-wrote everything. The whole primordial concept did not exist at all until that point Actually that was all based on a technically. Cyric stabbed Bhaal with the sword godsbane...
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    D&D General The Role and Purpose of Evil Gods

    Note that Yeenoghu creating the gnoll race started as a gnoll myth in 4e and was made fact in 5e. Until then it was always stated that Yeenoghu did not create gnolls. He merely discovered them, like how they looked similiar to him and wiggled his way into their original pantheon and managed to...
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    D&D General The Role and Purpose of Evil Gods

    It was not the FR version. If was the one and only D&D version back in 2nd Edition when all settings were part of the one and only shared multiverse. I am not even sure it was an FR source that stated it or whether it was from a Planescape source. Orcus's mortal life wasn't on Toril as far as I...
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    D&D General The Role and Purpose of Evil Gods

    Nope. In 2e there was just one Orcus and he was the same for all D&D settings, every entity was.
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    D&D General The Role and Purpose of Evil Gods

    that's what i like about Pathfinder. There they're not. Many GOO/DFC are merely at demonprince level and some are on deity level. But not deity+ level, just deity level and the normal deities can take a DFC of their respektive level just fine
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    D&D General The Role and Purpose of Evil Gods

    That depends on how much power you attribute to Asmodeus. In default D&D, not even in GtH, would a greater power need to worry about him more than about any other rival
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    D&D General D&D Combat is fictionless

    Yet it's the assumed fiction. Any difference that arise from how it works out at the table is due to us humans being unable to process it in any other way (that still is easy, fast and fun). The old BG, IWD, NWN with their pauseable RL combat were actually more true to what the fiction of the...
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    D&D General D&D Combat is fictionless

    I actually doubt that. Because frankly systems like that never turn out as great in reality of play as they sound in the theory of the rules. I shudder when I think back at the Waffenvergleichswert in DSA. Back then you had an attack countered by a parry and the WV told you how to modify the...
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    D&D General D&D Combat is fictionless

    But the fiction of a D&D combat round is that it happens simultaneously. The fighter and the goblin are charging each other at the same time, the fighter is just slightly faster and lands the first blow after their meeting
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    D&D General The Role and Purpose of Evil Gods

    Nerull is a multispheric entity said to reap his grim harvest on a thousand worlds. Then you have the racial deities that transcend worlds as well
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    D&D General The Role and Purpose of Evil Gods

    However in an early dragon magazine article about the 9 hells it was stated that the reason for sticking Bane into Gehenna rather than having his domain somewhere in the nine hells was to avoid the issue why he would not go about enslaving the archdevils to his will That was at a time when all...
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    D&D General The Role and Purpose of Evil Gods

    It was in Prince of Lies Cyric was dethroned, Kelemvor hat not yet ascended and the novel focused on a couple of unfortunate sods that would have really wished they could just die right now but found that they had to endure their very unfortunate circumstances a while longer.
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    D&D General The Role and Purpose of Evil Gods

    Why do I get a déjà-vu? Wasn't there exactly such a thread before? Edit: Found it
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    D&D and the rising pandemic

    Only under equal circumstances. The data, at least in Germany, shows that the unvaccinated otherwise healthy 20-years old is still more likely to recover than the 65-years double vaccinated with a breakthrough infection. And even under equal circumstances there may be no more differences. Being...
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    D&D Movie/TV D&D Movie: Action Packed, Funny as Hell

    According to actor his upcomming movie is action packed and funny. More news at 11
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