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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Upper_Krust" data-source="post: 2507429" data-attributes="member: 326">Glad you liked the idea Wolv0rine dude! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Hey Shariell matey! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />This may sound weird, but I don't really care about the gods alignments that much, so the bottom line is that I am going to use alignment for my purposes, not bust my hump trying to determine the ethics of such mythological figures, an endeavour which is unlikely to result in everyone agreeing with me anyway.Thats not to say I don't want to do them justice, of course I do, but I want to show that you don't have to be beholden to the myth alone, because when you introduce the gods to your campaign you add to their legend. Hercules never battled Cthulhu, Songoku never had a showdown with Demogorgon, Thor never introduced Tiamat to Mjolnir...but in someones campaign they might. So you can't say that the gods are simply a measure of the meagre handful of stories we have on them. As for whether Zeus is Chaotic Good and Jupiter is Lawful Evil, who can say for sure, although the Ancient Greeks prized their independance and the Romans tried to subdue the world. The cultures were in some way opposites, so why not their gods.Incidently the idea of shadow pantheons was inspired by the Zoroastrian word favarshi. eg. Ahriman is the favarshi of Ormuzd.I thought to myself how people are always going on about how the books get the alignments of the gods wrong, Odin was a bloodthirsty battle god, hes not good aligned, yadda yadda yadda.Then I thought, wouldn't it be interesting if every pantheon had an opposite, the classic sort of 'evil twin' idea, brought to life. The duality of so many pantheons seemed to marry this idea perfectly; Greek-Roman being the classic example, but there are lots of others (Norse-Germanic, Irish-Welsh, Aztec-Mayan etc.) So I decided this would make an interesting adventure or campaign idea for an epic/immortal campaign.I would be remiss if I also didn't say that the Palladium Book "Pantheons of the Megaverse" wasn't also an inspiration in this regard. For me its still the greatest immortal-centric book ever...even though I don't understand most of the mechanics (I don't own the RIFTS RPG, although I do have half a dozen of their books). What I admire so much about that book is the imaginative way it maintains the verisimilitude of so many fantastical ideas. The gods therein are not the stale interpretations often regurgitated - instead they take account of the universe around them and are all the more interesting for it! Neither is the book afraid to talk about the relationships between pantheons it even goes so far to talk about any pertinent relationship between other major forces of the universe. Such as: the Alien Splugorth; the Vampire Kingdoms; the Mechanoids; the Demons etc.</blockquote>

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