conversions of gods


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No, not really... I'm kinda busy, see... I'm trying to create the 3E stats for the four horseman of the apocalypse. I'm making them as abominations with a divine rank of 0, and I've run into a small snag. The summoning ability. What kind of creatures War should summon. Any ideas? He'll be summoning 1000HD's worth of creatures anyways (as will his brothers).

by the way, they're NE.

Later,
 

are you going straight-up biblical? i don't happen to have a bible here with me at work. ;)

as for continuation... well, if you're still helping me at the minimal, i'll keep it going. :) after i finish up maglubiyet and the dragon gods, how about rounding off the goblin pantheon?
 

The other dragon gods are Astilabor the hoardmistress,Garyx the cleanser of worlds,Hlal the Jester,Lendys the worldshaper,Kereska the wonderbringer,Tamara,Task the taker,Zorquan the high one,Kalzareinad(dead) the keeper of dark wonders. The realms name for Io is Asgorath the worldshaper. I got my info from Cult of the Dragon source book I hope that helps
 

Boz: No 'not straigth up biblical', but rather as a new vision kinda thing, you know. I'm trying to make them how they're supposed to be, War for example is huge, covered in an exoskeleton of rock with spikes all over, the three others will only be large. No mounts, just big badass outsiders with a CR in the thirties. Death will get the patented 'touch of death' ability, just because he's better that way. So what should War summon? Death will be summoning 1000HD of skeletons and zombies once per day. Sorta having them summon their army of the apocalypse...

By the way, the four horsemen of the apocalypse are:

War
Famine
Pestilence
and
Death

But the rest of the goblin pantheon sounds like a good start for conversion.

LordNull: Hlal is pretty much the same as Aasternian. But thanks for mentioning the others.

Later,
 


spent a couple hours or so flipping through DDG last night before the game. i noticed a few things about the deities in the first section - the greyhawk, dragon and humanoid gods. first of all, DvR:
the only greater gods who have 18s or 19s are the elf, dwarf, halfling, and gnome gods. humans have three 17s, but that's as high as they have. except for kord and fhalanghan (14 each), all of the intermediate gods have 15.

size: the dragons were both colossal, the halfling and gnome gods were small, all of the rest are medium-size.

levels: nearly all of the gods have 40 character levels. all of these levels are standard PHB classes, except for Moradin (Expt 14) (also, Garl and Nerull had specialist wizard classes, but all others were wizards or sorcerers). Garl has 42 levels, Moradin has 49 levels, Yondalla has 45 levels, Corellon has 49 levels, and Gruumsh only has 38. all of the others have 40.

ability scores:
except for the dragon gods (and vecna, who has no Con but otherwise complies), all of the gods in the book (including the other sections - Thor only has 92 str because it's doubled from 46) have one score above 40 (well, Lolth has two 41s), and all the rest are in the 20s or low 30s. Bobbob has 50 Int, Olidamarra has 50 Dex, Kord has 55 Str. except for vecna and the dragon gods, all of their ability scores total up between 180-193 (from adding in my head, i could have messed that up).

as a result of this last part, i will be altering the ability scores of the gods we have done. these are what i'm thinking of changing to, please let me know how it sounds:
Mags - 44/31/32/27/26/29
Khur - 42/32/32/25/22/29
Nomog - 43/31/33/26/24/29
Barg - 30/26/26/32/32/40
Titania - 22/33/25/32/33/44
Oberon - 41/30/25/27/27/31
 

Looks good to me, but perhaps you would like to use the official method?

I got this from the Deities and Demigods board over at the WotC boards. Apparantly someone sent a question to sage and got the following reply:

Essentially deities have a standard array (see DMG, Chapter 2): 35, 28,
25, 24, 24, 24 Add +1 for every 4 class levels the deity has. Also add
+1 of every point of divine rank.

Does this help?
 

That's a good guide for figuring balanced totals, but following it to the letter would probably yield cookie-cutter deities. One could use it to create a deity clone and then apply the ability value chart (table 2-7 in DMG) when giving the deities more character.
 

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