Deities & Demigods

[Nightfall]

Well thank you Der for your VERY enlightening look at this book. Guess I'll have wander down to my gaming store and peruse it myself. In any case thank you for clearing up whether the Demon Princes WOULD be in it or not. Well Krusty mate, guess you and Scott were right, no dice here! Oh well such is life. So what's your bet Krusty mate, ELH or MM2?


Btw Der, if you get a chance WHO are the new gods listed?

Btw, think you can also describe Divine Shield a little? I'm curious about THAT salient ability. (Though I'm sure Krusty in his INFINATE deitific knowledge can probably puzzle this one out for me! )

 

[Eridanis]

It also mentions that it may be appropriate to some campaigns to alter the levels shown in DDG after the ELH is released as the deities listed in DDG only have a maximum of 20 levels per class.

Cheers
NPP

This is dissapointing, but I'm not surprised. Let's hope they'll do a web enhancement for ELH that does basic stat blocks for deities from this book.

Hopefully, the web enhancement for D&Dg will have another pantheon or two... perhaps Central American or Chinese?

 

[Desdichado]

Quick update: I just heard from my retailer that he's expecting Di&De on the 16th of this month. Any other retailers out there care to confirm this date? TalonComics? Anyone?

 

[Nightfall]

Josh,

I'm going to check my gaming store tommorrow to see if they have. (Not likely but never hurts to check) They usually get their shipments in Tuesday/Wedsenday. If they have it, I'll post it here to let you know, (mainly to give MY thoughts since I WILL thumb through it. )

 

[Information]

Thanks, Derulbaskul!

Could you please tell me the following(?):

-- Zeus's, Odin's, and Re-Horakhty's Hit Points.

-- Any other monster deities?

-- When a deity is slain, is it permanent (if killed by a deity of equal or higher rank/DR, etc.)?

-- On average, what is the ratio of deities who have illustrations to those who don't?

Thanks!

 

[TalonComics]

Ask and you shall receive...

The official street date for regular distributors is Friday the 12th. I will have them on that day plus a couple of other Wizards' products that I need to look up.

Of course you can preorder it here for 15% off:
www.taloncomics.com/d&dcorebooks.html

~Derek

 

[Flexor the Mighty!]

If the gods are going to have to be redone after the Epic Level book is put out why did they even bother to release it? In a few months the stats listed in there will be useless.

 

[Olive]

they released it because it's only going to be 'useless' if you are playing with the ELH. If you're not, then it's always going to be fien...

you don't need to use either D&Dg or the ELH...persoanlly I prefer that than feeling like i need to by both books when i'm only interested in one of them.

 

[Flexor the Mighty!]

Do level 1-20 PC's as written in the "basic" D20 system have a chance against these gods? Nope, the only use one will find for their stats is in epic level campagns. I'm going to be really pissed if the epic level rules have the Demon & Devil lords in it. I hope they have them in the MM2 instead of the ELH, as so far I don't plan on buying it.

 

[Upper_Krust]

Hi Nightfall mate!

Well thank you Der for your VERY enlightening look at this book.

Hear! hear!

In any case thank you for clearing up whether the Demon Princes WOULD be in it or not. Well Krusty mate, guess you and Scott were right, no dice here! Oh well such is life.

I think Scott deserves all the credit for this one.

So what's your bet Krusty mate, ELH or MM2?

Smart money would be on Monster Manual II I think!?

Firstly (as far as I know); none of the Epic Playtesters were privy to Demon Prince (et al.) stats.

With MMII we already know (from Jeff Grubb) that it will be concentrating on more powerful monsters - it would also retain historical significance since such beings were in the previous Monster Manuals.

Btw, think you can also describe Divine Shield a little? I'm curious about THAT salient ability. (Though I'm sure Krusty in his INFINATE deitific knowledge can probably puzzle this one out for me! )

It could possibly be Damage Reduction (equal to Divine Rank?) with no Magic Weapon modifier - as with a Barbarian...but thats just a guess you understand.