Conversions of nonhuman gods for 3E

[BOZ]

actually regdar, you did give me an idea. i think it would be a good idea to come up with a list of things from DotF for these gods, such as Domains, Alignment, and Portfolio. i'll get to work on that (but you won't see it today, unfortunately).

 

[Regdar]

That would be useful, the combat stats are not.

 

[BigFreekinGoblinoid]

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as to serge: i do know what you mean. my main assistant (i call him that only because i'm controlling the actual conversion - he puts almost as much input into it as i do) krishnath has practically been crying for that from the start. i do want to do them the way i've been doing to keep them in line with DDG gods, but i can also see why people would want the other options, especially if they have all of the other books and want to get some use out of them! personally, i live by the KISS principle - keep it simple, stupid! if i tried to do these things using all of those rules and ideas, it would take me twice as long, if not longer, to get everything together for the sake of consistency. consistency is the main reason i do it my way, and that's the way i feel i need to keep it for the sake of my own sanity.

BUT, i do see where you are coming from. the idea i posed to krish was that we do them this way, and then *rework* them later to include all possible options. i know how badly he wants to use things from FRCS, or ELH or the splat books, and i know you and others do too. so, when i finish with a particular god (Maglubiyet is the only such candidate at the moment) how bout i start another thread, and we work on fixing him up all badass?

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Maybe this should be the first issue to consider by poll. I can easily agree that most people do NOT have the ELH, BUT: does your target online audience?

IMO, I would think that the majority of "power gamers" that would actually USE the stat block for a deity's avatar would be USING the ELH.

Might be interesting to find out!?!

I'm also in agreement with Regdar ( I'm 80% sure that Regdar is a secondary sign-in name for someone else BTW! - no NOT me, although I DO have another log-in...) about including the information that would be useful for worshippers. Favored weapon and other like info would be appreciated too.

-BFG

edit: IMO, the best way to make a deity's avatar would be to use the special abilites from Deities and Demigods/Faiths & Pantheons
AND apply ELH attributes for specific class levels over 20. Lotta Work? OOOH YEAH!

 

[BOZ]

IMO, the best way to make a deity's avatar would be to use the special abilites from Deities and Demigods/Faiths & Pantheons AND apply ELH attributes for specific class levels over 20. Lotta Work? OOOH YEAH!

which is why i'm going to let those guys do most of the work.

 

[I'm A Banana]

Actually, the overlap may be sooner than you expected...

This week sometime I plan on doing Maglubiyet.

How shuold we join these? I'd gladly contribute my write-ups to anything you'd put up, and maybe my Deity-A-Week thread can benefit from having a place to look for the stats, ifn' you want to bash the heads of the god?

 

[BOZ]

hey, cool then. well, for starters, feel free to look at the document i have so far (i doubt that the stuff you need will change at all) and take what you need from it. i converted him as LE as a matter of personal preference. if you want him NE as WotC standard, it's a simple matter of changing him back to the DotF settings. i don't know of much more information on him than that, but if you ask around someone might have a nugget of info that i missed (though i did try to be thorough).

 

[I'm A Banana]

Done and done....

I should get to him within the next few days...I'll probably do him NE, but it shouldn't be too drastically different.

 

[BOZ]

ok fellas, i set up maglubiyet.

anyone who's interested, get on that train!

 

[BOZ]

here, i updated the list of gods.

and hey, while you're here, why not check out this picture that Oni did of Maglubiyet?

Edit: theY domains on this list in black are from DotF, or the gods i converted myself; the domains in red are suggested possibilities. if you have access to Faiths & Pantheons, please help me fill up the domains for the good humanoids, orcs, and dwarves.

 

[BOZ]

bump!

allright, i have a pretty good idea where this is headed... evil humanoids in the lead, giants and good humanoids (and some others) closely behind. i will set up another poll in about an hour, to determine the specific gods you would all like to see me do next.