Diplomatic Immunity OOC: The Third

[Rystil Arden]

I'm sure he'll run something else. I saw this as an opertunity to try the VoP, and a monk, neither of which I've personaly played. I know I directed you to his homebrew thread earlier, he's got some interesting details on his races and world, looks like he just hasn't created a new pantheon yet, if he ever intends too.

I rarely create my own pantheon either, though I've done it sometimes, but I found the Greyhawk pantheon to be severely lacking in extremely important portfolios, and some of them that are there are obscure and hard to find any info on them. For instance, can you name the Greyhawk goddess of love and beauty? Probably not, though I managed to track one down after Googling for twenty minutes, but there's no more info on her than her name, and that's even just from a 1e site. Also, the gods they do have annoy me because they seem silly and one-dimensional to me, but I admit it's probably just me.

 

[Bront]

Myhriss, goddess of Love and Beauty.

I agree, the only reason I happen to know, is because I had to look them up too, for Kitrina (who also pays homage to Istus and Rao, Goddess of Fate, and Godess of Peace and Serenity)

http://www.cmc.net/~rtaylor/greyhawk/gods/lists/

 

[Rystil Arden]

Myhriss, goddess of Love and Beauty.

I agree, the only reason I happen to know, is because I had to look them up too, for Kitrina (who also pays homage to Istus and Rao, Goddess of Fate, and Godess of Peace and Serenity)

http://www.cmc.net/~rtaylor/greyhawk/gods/lists/

I only know Mhyriss because I was making a Greyhawk character once...but Greyhawk has some of the most boring gods I've ever seen. They even managed to make a god of magic I don't like (the only one)

 

[Bront]

I only know Mhyriss because I was making a Greyhawk character once...but Greyhawk has some of the most boring gods I've ever seen. They even managed to make a god of magic I don't like (the only one)

You don't like Bocab?

Yeah, Forgotten Realms isn't too much better, though their gods at least have a bit more plot to them. Eberron's deities seem a bit sparce, but that's what the pantheon worship is for. LEW's deities are... interesting. Most look like they were made to min/max, with far too many having travel and/or luck, and some of the favored weapons seem a bit too 'convenient'. I had hoped to help straighten them out with my proposals, and have 1-2 more ideas, but going to hold off for the time.

 

[Rystil Arden]

You don't like Bocab?

Yeah, Forgotten Realms isn't too much better, though their gods at least have a bit more plot to them. Eberron's deities seem a bit sparce, but that's what the pantheon worship is for. LEW's deities are... interesting. Most look like they were made to min/max, with far too many having travel and/or luck, and some of the favored weapons seem a bit too 'convenient'. I had hoped to help straighten them out with my proposals, and have 1-2 more ideas, but going to hold off for the time.

I find the Forgotten Realms deities to be much more interesting, and I appreciate how most of them were derived from real-world mythologies as well. In one of my main homebrew worlds, I actually use the FR pantheon with a few twists--it has interesting deities, covers all the bases well, and the 2e book Faiths and Avatars was awesome!

 

[Bront]

I find the Forgotten Realms deities to be much more interesting, and I appreciate how most of them were derived from real-world mythologies as well. In one of my main homebrew worlds, I actually use the FR pantheon with a few twists--it has interesting deities, covers all the bases well, and the 2e book Faiths and Avatars was awesome!

I'm just not a big FR fan. The uber-NPCs, the excrutiating detail, just never floated my boat. I had the Forgoten Realms Adventures book, which I did like the dieties in there, but the newer books didn't have some of the ones I remembered and liked.

 

[Rystil Arden]

Yeah, I noticed that the LEW ones were kind of weird...

As for Boccob, he is incredibly boring and his epithet is "the Uncaring"...I don't know...

Give me a choice for the weakest link between Isis, Mystra, Boccob, I'll pick Boccob.

Ra, Lathandar, Helios, Pelor, Shamash? Pelor.

Haides, Hel, Ereshkigal, Jergal, Arawn, Nerull? Nerull (though admittedly Kelemvor is weak too, so it might be close)

etc...

 

[Rystil Arden]

I'm just not a big FR fan. The uber-NPCs, the excrutiating detail, just never floated my boat. I had the Forgoten Realms Adventures book, which I did like the dieties in there, but the newer books didn't have some of the ones I remembered and liked.

I didn't say my homebrew is FR--just that I use the deities. They are very nice, even if you don't like the setting itself.

 

[Bront]

I didn't say my homebrew is FR--just that I use the deities. They are very nice, even if you don't like the setting itself.

I know, and wasn't accusing you of using the setting, just mentioning it.

I've pondered building my own pantheon, but I don't run enough things to make it worth the time.

 

[Rystil Arden]

I made a pretty cool adventure after Deities and Demigods 3e came out where the campaign started with all the characters (who started at level 12) gaining quasideity status, which by necessity involved my own pantheon. It was pretty cool--perhaps I could run it on ENWorld some day, but they just keep putting more work on my workload...