Anyone else buying the Dieties & Demigods even though they won't use the stats?

[WanderingMonster]

Re: Re: Re: Anyone else buying the Dieties & Demigods even though they won't use the stats?

A 20th level character can still be physically grappled by a mob of zero level shmucks then held down and throat slit. Being 20th level doesnt make you immortal compared to the average person.

On the other hand a mob (or even a mob of mobs) of 20th level characters is not going to do the same to even a minor God.

There is a big difference between the two.

That 20th level character deserves to die then. The 20th should be able to win initiative, and then Great Cleave/Circle of Death/Whatever the lot of them.

 

[Kichwas]

I suspect I will end up in this category.

I see the divine as being divine. So they shouldn't have stats.

If the book's just a collection of dieties for other people's worlds or for rela world religions I'll skip it. But if it has a good amount of information on building and managing faith and religion in fantasy then I'll get it.

 

[Nightfall]

I'll probably get ...once I'm out of the unmoney rut I'm in. Mainly for comparsion sake. I'm curious how the Avatars of the GODS in GH compare to say.. the Divine and the Defeated.

 

[Evil Josef]

I, myself, am a bit torn.

On one hand, I'd prefer to think that the gods were indistinct beings who doled out powers to their followers from some completely detached, unattainable place and, in their vastness, have no stats as far as stats go, letting a little more flexibility persist as far as their trials and trevails go.

On the other hand, Deities & Demigods will make for good reading for making those god-like powers that are just begging to be fought. Take Iuz. Sure, he's attained godhood, but he's close enough to the mortal world and takes enough of a direct hand to justify getting beat on.

That's what I'd more than likely use the book for. It's not for every campaign, but - combined with the Epic Level Handbook - might make for some fun mythic episodes. Maybe swimming up a waterfall will seem a little less out of place if it's an obstacle in a swimming race with Farlaghn to get your hands on some powerful artifact being put up as the prize. Or arm-wrestle with Kord, maybe?

 

[Black Omega]

I'm a confirmed mythology nut. I'll get it for the stats and stuff. I know most of the myths and other information for many of them already. I got the original Demigods and Deities for the same reason. I didn't even play DnD then.


Aside from that, I never stat Gods.