Core Religion Survivor - Round Fourteen

[Wik]

The D&D "Survivor" Continues! We're going to vote core D&D deities "off the island" as it were, until only one god remains.

Last round, eveyone united in their efforts to knock off Moradin. "You must be at least this tall to compete in Survivor!" they shouted in unison.

So far, we've lost:

Round One: Corellon Larethian & Garl Glittergold
Round Two: Lolth & Yondalla
Round Three: Vecna & Kurtulmak
Round Four: St. Cuthbert & Bahamut
Round Five: Tiamat & Pelor
Round Six: Ehlonna & Fharlaghn
Round Seven: Erythnul & Boccob
Round Eight: Gruumsh
Round Nine: Nerull
Round Ten: Kord
Round Eleven: Obad-Hai
Round Twelve: Olidamarra
Round Thirteen: Moradin

Who's going to go next?

From now on in, only one deity will be removed each round. It gets a little messier now, baby.

You can vote from a player's perspective, a DM's perspective, or anywhere in between. Have fun, kids. All the deities here are taken from Deities and Demigods, so there are a few that aren't found in the PHB. But, you probably know who they are, anyway.

Who will be the most-liked (or, more accurately, least-hated) deity of the core D&D religions?

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Heironeous and his brother are both stupid. Heironeous first, though.

 

[caudor]

An evil deity does not deserve to win. Evil, after all, is just evil. Bye Hextor.

Wee Jas is next.

You know you are a good person, so look within and let good prevail.

 

[Sejs]

Heironeous, you have no flavor to you other than being generic good. You don't even have the whole six-arms thing going that your brother has!

Get lost, Captain Bland.

 

[Nifft]

Heironeous and his brother are both stupid. Heironeous first, though.

QFT.

 

[Kunimatyu]

Goodbye, Mr. Supa-Paladin. Hextor has a nice Sinbad vibe going on at least.

 

[Wonko the Sane]

Wee Jas.

His name is just too silly.

Not as silly as his brother, Hugh though.

 

[Chupacabra]

Hextoricus Maximus!

Hextor's church rules as a plot-device for DMs. Unlike most other evil churches in the pantheon, they operate quite openly. Also, the church seemingly isn't run by psychopaths or "cultists" (read: run by cliche boring stock NPC's).

It's real easy for the party to stroll into town and then smash some hidden evil cult of Vecna or Erythnul. Yawn....been done a zillion times. But its a ton more difficult to come into a town or city where lets say the majority of the city militia / watch / armed forces pay homage to an evil diety of Law and Strength like Hextor. Kinda hard to strut around as a LG paladin when the local police might just snap you up for "political reasons". What are you going to do -- wage war on the entire city?

WAAAAY more interesting than Wee Jas. And as for his goody-two-shoes brother, please! Goody-goody gods are a dime a dozen.

 

[Alaric_Prympax]

Now is the time for Hextor to get the heck off the island. 6 armed freak get outta here!

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Hextor's church rules as a plot-device for DMs. Unlike most other evil churches in the pantheon, they operate quite openly. Also, the church seemingly isn't run by psychopaths or "cultists" (read: run by cliche boring stock NPC's).

It's real easy for the party to stroll into town and then smash some hidden evil cult of Vecna or Erythnul. Yawn....been done a zillion times. But its a ton more difficult to come into a town or city where lets say the majority of the city militia / watch / armed forces pay homage to an evil diety of Law and Strength like Hextor. Kinda hard to strut around as a LG paladin when the local police might just snap you up for "political reasons". What are you going to do -- wage war on the entire city?

There's nothing that you describe above that can't be done with any archdevil and, since those are all fleshed out more than Hextor ("I have six arms and a brother that I hate"), done better.

At least Wee Jas is a non-evil death god in the core rules. It's like she was dropped in from some other game entirely.