Deity for a duelist?

[Sciurus Rex]

Suggestions, please, on which god or goddess a swashbuckler or duelist might follow. This new character will likely be pursuing a life path that includes mastering the rapier and devoting himself to (and promoting) a particular deity. He might be a human, half-elf or half-orc.

Your input?

 

[Crothian]

Are you using a specific panthion like the Greyhawk gods or the Forgotten Relams gods? Or do you want generic god traits?

 

[Sciurus Rex]

re pantheon: The GM is flexible and would consider cross-campaign god borrowing or tweaking an existing god.

Regardless, your own examples might help set a tone or general direction.

 

[Crothian]

Okay, in the first game I ran we had an elven Dualist who whorshiped a female chaotic good goddess. She was more chaotic then good, she was dashing and daring and did what see wantyed to and reluctantly did good when it went against her fun. But she always found a way to have fun. Her domains are trickery, travel, and luck. She's not the most widely worshiped gods, she's basically the goddess of fun and getting enjoyment out of everything one does.

 

[Mr Fidgit]

i think it may depend on the type of character you want Sciurus Rex. a fly-by-seat-of-your-pants swashbuckler type would be strongly chaotic and may worship a diety of luck and/or adventure. a precise, must-perfect-my-weapon-skill type would probably be more lawful (orderly, focused)

 

[arwink]

Corellion Letharion works okay for half-elves. Ditto Olidammara, with a greater focus on his role as lord of revelry. Fnarlanghan works, kinda, for the more fleet footed or sea faring types.

 

[Chun-tzu]

Tymora makes a good choice, as her portfolio not only includes luck, but also skill, victory, and adventuring. Your prototypical swashbuckler is very much an adventure-seeker.

A duelist who's more of a "player" might worship Sune, goddess of passion.

Lathander, whose portfolio includes athletics, vitality, and youth, would work, especially for an optimistic, cheery type.

A masked, Zorro-type duelist might choose a goddess of mystery.

A noble, swashbuckling champion might choose a god of duty and honor, like Torm.

 

[Moe Ronalds]

My current swashbuckler, a 16-charisma-flirt, chose a goddess of love as his deity. Since this may not work for everyone though, I'd suggest possibly a god of trickery or one of the many martial gods.

 

[DM_Matt]

Are you the origional Sciurius Rex? Will the real Bugaboo Alias please stand up?

 

[CCamfield]

Lots of historical swashbucklers were fairly devout by nature. Aramis, for instance...

The character's favored deity could come first, rather than derive from the character's class. Imagine a swashbuckler devoted to a god of knowledge (maybe by profession he hunts down rare books?), law (there is a book called Color In The Steel in which one of the characters is a professional duellist fighting in trials by combat in his city's law-courts), etc.