Deities & Demigods

[Upper_Krust]

Hi Colonel Hardisson mate!

When will the WPS be completed?

Most of the work is done; pending my getting hold of Deities & Demigods. Recently things were switched to make the work fully compatible with D&Dg so I'll need to see what they have done and no doubt tweak a number of aspects. However, it won't be released until D&Dg enters the System Reference Document (which I have been told by WotC should be fairly soon after the books release).

Hopefully mid-May to early-June.

The plan is to release the work in four .pdf sections (approximately: Players; DMs; Magic and Monsters). Hopefully these sections will be rejoined for the eventual (touch wood! ) hardcopy!

 

[Upper_Krust]

A few more questions for our lucky Singapore friends

Hi Derulbaskul and Firelance!

Hope you are both enjoying the book!

If any of you get the chance tomorrow could you answer:

- What benefits (if any?) do the gods get for being on their home plane?

- What are the Salient Divine Abilities that boost (ability scores) Hercules strength* - is this Indomitable Strength!?

(*and I assume also Kords strength; Thors strength; Osiris constitution; Taiias constitution and Dennaris constitution!?)

- (Related to the previous question) do any of the Salient Divine Abilities require more than one slot!?

- What does (the Salient Divine Ability) Divine Blast do?

- What is Surturs Divine Rank/Levels?

Thanks in advance!

 

[Nightfall]

Also can you explain these salient abilities: Divine Storm, Divine Blast, Mass Divine Blast, Divine Aura, Instant Move and Extra Domains.

 

[War Golem]

No Fenris Wolf!?
No Cerberus!?
No Sliepnir!?
No Titans!?

Hi Upper_Krust,

I couldn't agree more!

Since WotC has left these beings out of their default "mythology" book, any chance of seeing them appear in the "Monsters" chapter of IH?

-War Golem

 

[Flexor the Mighty!]

I bought the book in Singapore. We often get some of the "minor" products really late, the splat books for example (but who cares! ) but major releases seem to get here rather early. The shop I buy from is normally strict about release dates but there were none shown for DDG.

The rest of the questions I will try and answer tonight.

Cheers
NPP

PS: jasamcarl- are you Jason Carl, the WOTC designer?

Probably. That would explain why he's in such a tiff over critisim of his super wonderful book, and the bestest, most wonderful D&D system ever.

 

[Upper_Krust]

Hi Nightfall mate!

Also can you explain these salient abilities: Divine Storm, Divine Blast, Mass Divine Blast, Divine Aura, Instant Move and Extra Domains.

I don't think we need to have 'Extra Domain' explained mate!

 

[BOZ]

No Fenris Wolf!?
No Cerberus!?
No Sliepnir!?
No Titans!?

hey krusty,

i did a conversion of fenris and cerberus, and a few other classic DDG monsters awhile back. when i get my copy of the new DDG (or maybe i'll wait to see if there's a web enhancement), i'll rework and repost them at the Creature Catalog.

 

[Upper_Krust]

Hi Upper_Krust,

Hi War Golem mate!

I couldn't agree more!

Since WotC has left these beings out of their default "mythology" book, any chance of seeing them appear in the "Monsters" chapter of IH?

I pretty much have my Monsters chapter covered (they are all unique monsters). I will have to rebalance most of them when I see D&Dg, but that shouldn't take long.

However I was planning to perhaps do (time permitting) an addendum to D&Dg Egyptian; Greek and Norse Pantheons; including a few monsters that were never covered in 1st Ed. Deities & Demigods.

I sort of can't believe WotC would leave out the main pantheon monsters though! Perhaps we will see them in a web enhancement.

 

[Nightfall]

Well maybe Krusty mate I'm confuzed about WHY a god would NEED an extra domain. I mean it makes SENSE if you want to give your followers MORE power and maybe yourself...but why need it as a Salient Ability?

 

[Nightfall]

Well it's either a Web Enhancement Krusty or I'm betting MM2.