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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Information" data-source="post: 186845" data-attributes="member: 2402">One problem I've encountered in actually using the book is the rigidity with which the deities are defined.It is next to impossible to tweak a 3rd Edition deity without far reaching ramifications. Try changing a deity's rank from greater to intermediate, or whatever, and you'll find yourself bogged down in reconfiguring DR and the godawful amount of powers and skills it actually influences.For example, racial deities are not very prominent in my campaign, and I had originally determined to reduce the "demihuman" (sorry) deities to intermediate deity status. Well, I gave that up after a couple of hours. Better to just leave them be rather than re-work them entirely.The D&Dg system's complexity discourages changing the officially-endowed stats. I wanted a neutral good elf deity. I thought about simply changing Corellan to NG, but that would resonate throughout his entire stat block and write-up. So, I simply changed Frey's name to Heslyn-Frey (NG) and use him instead.Unlike 1st Ed., the abilities and powers are so interlocked and interdependent, it is almost impossible to alter these beings. I haven't even bothered looking at their feats, but I would imagine simply removing 5 DR from Corellan would throw everything completely out of wack.I improvised, however, so rather than tweak existing deities, I just use other deity write-ups that more closely resemble what I have in mind.I wanted badly to make Kurtulmak a Lesser or (preferably) a Demigod. But the god of kobolds is simply not worth spending hours re-working. Better to simply leave him be and remain more "divinely endowed" than Tiamat.</blockquote>

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