Complete Divine Excerpts - good news for Greyhawk fans
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MerricB said:
Woooo! Trithereon for the win! Hope they have a great PrC for his followers, I find it unlikley though.
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I think the Entropomancer is more a villainous PrC myself.
I mean, it's one thing to have a PC use a Sphere of Annihilation. It's quite another to have an evil organization find one, and attempt to use it, while the PC's scramble to find a talisman that can perhaps usurp control.....
It makes an interesting adventure, I'd say!
I mean, it's one thing to have a PC use a Sphere of Annihilation. It's quite another to have an evil organization find one, and attempt to use it, while the PC's scramble to find a talisman that can perhaps usurp control.....
It makes an interesting adventure, I'd say!
diaglo said:
Yes, but not just fight them...also to interact with them, role-play with them. I have never liked the tendency for DM's to play gods as if they can do anything and can't be harmed by even the toughest of PCs. Mythology and other fiction is replete with stories about mortals fighting, outsmarting or in other ways besting the gods, stats and abilities are an effective and fair way to make that a (remote) possibility.
And the stats given in D&Dg are well done and interesting. the power difference between a divine rank 1 god and a divine rank 15 god is at least equivalent to the difference between characters of levels 1 and 15.
The book is so well liked by me and the group I run that we are about to start a divine campaign, with the players playing gods; defiantly not something I could do without stats for the gods extant.
The preceding is, of course, IMO.
As an FR fan I have to say its likely that Im going to pass on Complete Divine
The PRC
The ENTROPOMANCER might seem like a likely candiate for House Karnok in Chessenta but theyve already got there own PrC in LOD (and HK are not a huge organisation)
The Divine World
WHAT HAPPENS AFTER YOU DIE, This is not alot of use, as the Afterlife is completely different in the FR, we have the False and Faithless, unbelievers are not sent to the there Alignment plane (as they no longer exist in the FR cosmology)
Domains and Spells
A few of the Domains are useful
The Madness domain could probably go to Cyric (all though its debatable whether its applicable any more as hes no longer mad)
Mind Domain probably a good one for Illesine and maybe Oghma
Mysticism domain: judging by the spells this could go to any deity
Oracle domain: Savas
Pact domain: Tyr/ Torm and maybe Ilmater
Pestilience: Talona & Yurtus
Purification: Lathander
Summoner Domain: Mystra and Azuth
Weather Domain: none really, Talos has the Storm Domain and its a much better fit then Weather, The Winter domain found in Dungeon magazine is a better choice for Auril, which leaves us with Umberlee and there arent any Water/Ocean type spells in the Weather Domain.
All up its not looking good
The PRC
The ENTROPOMANCER might seem like a likely candiate for House Karnok in Chessenta but theyve already got there own PrC in LOD (and HK are not a huge organisation)
The Divine World
WHAT HAPPENS AFTER YOU DIE, This is not alot of use, as the Afterlife is completely different in the FR, we have the False and Faithless, unbelievers are not sent to the there Alignment plane (as they no longer exist in the FR cosmology)
Domains and Spells
A few of the Domains are useful
The Madness domain could probably go to Cyric (all though its debatable whether its applicable any more as hes no longer mad)
Mind Domain probably a good one for Illesine and maybe Oghma
Mysticism domain: judging by the spells this could go to any deity
Oracle domain: Savas
Pact domain: Tyr/ Torm and maybe Ilmater
Pestilience: Talona & Yurtus
Purification: Lathander
Summoner Domain: Mystra and Azuth
Weather Domain: none really, Talos has the Storm Domain and its a much better fit then Weather, The Winter domain found in Dungeon magazine is a better choice for Auril, which leaves us with Umberlee and there arent any Water/Ocean type spells in the Weather Domain.
All up its not looking good
MerricB said:Yes, well FR has been extremely well supplied with its own divine sourcebooks and material. So, I guess it's not a surprise that Complete Divine won't be as useful.
Cheers!
I get the Feeling that it would have been more accurate calling CD Faithes of Oeorth
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