While I have yet to downvote him in this thread, I've never liked his name. You're a saint OR a god, not both.I guess I am giving up on the fight for St. Cuthbert. Sigh. People have historically bad taste in gods.
Not in my homebrew (or Matt Colville's) nor in Greyhawk (apparently).While I have yet to downvote him in this thread, I've never liked his name. You're a saint OR a god, not both.
I really like Matt Colville, so I looked up his saints. They aren't gods. They serve the gods who work their will through their saints, which works for me. I've just always been bothered by Cuthbert being a god and his own saint at the same time. Saints should(in my opinion) be followers of gods, not gods.
In Greyhawk, he is an ascended mortal, which kind of tracks. Methinks the old school Midwestern Protestant Gygax sort of conflated anything Catholic and pagan somewhat...I really like Matt Colville, so I looked up his saints. They aren't gods. They serve the gods who work their will through their saints, which works for me. I've just always been bothered by Cuthbert being a god and his own saint at the same time. Saints should(in my opinion) be followers of gods, not gods.
