Diplomatic Immunity OOC: The Third

[unleashed]

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.

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!

Oh there's quite a bit more info on Myhriss than that, and 3E too in the Living Greyhawk Gazetteer. Though you're right, there's a lot more background and such for the FR deities.

 

[Rystil Arden]

Oh there's quite a bit more info on Myhriss than that, and 3E too in the Living Greyhawk Gazetteer. Though you're right, there's a lot more background and such for the FR deities.

Not easily locatable online though, or even where it should be in the PH or even Deities and Demigods--just in an RPGA Living Greyhawk thing. Also, when I do find out more about the Greyhawk gods, it's usually much more boring than the background on the FR gods, even similar FR gods. Lathander and Pelor are good examples there.

 

[unleashed]

Not easily locatable online though, or even where it should be in the PH or even Deities and Demigods--just in an RPGA Living Greyhawk thing. Also, when I do find out more about the Greyhawk gods, it's usually much more boring than the background on the FR gods, even similar FR gods. Lathander and Pelor are good examples there.

No they're not, mainly due to the fact that except for the ones in the PHB they're all considered relatively minor. The Living Greyhawk Gazetteer though was the Greyhawk Campaign Setting for 3E such as it was. The reason there aren't more in the PHB is because like the Forgotten Realms there are a huge amount of them, around 80 if I recall correctly.

I totally agree, they're pretty sparse in detail and flavour, and much prefer the Forgotten Realms gods myself...then I like the Forgotten Realms setting too.

 

[Rystil Arden]

No they're not, mainly due to the fact that except for the ones in the PHB they're all considered relatively minor. The Living Greyhawk Gazetteer though was the Greyhawk Campaign Setting for 3E such as it was. The reason there aren't more in the PHB is because like the Forgotten Realms there are a huge amount of them, around 80 if I recall correctly.

I totally agree, they're pretty sparse in detail and flavour, and much prefer the Forgotten Realms gods myself...then I like the Forgotten Realms setting too.

I have a soft spot for the Realms, though I don't tend to GM there much anymore except sometimes with novice players because it's easier to let them read the books to learn about the world then to tell them everything myself.

But yeah...as a lover of mythology of all sorts, there is almost no mythos that I find boring--in fact, the Greyhawk one is the only one I can think of. It is certainly 'iconic' if that is what they were going for, but it also makes it incredibly dull.

 

[Bront]

Yeah! Gun Monkey's background is finaly done. I should make a few notes, but in general, I like it.

It's also, by far, the longest background I've ever done.

BTW, I hate the spacing rules here. There should be a tab infront of each paragraph.

 

[Rystil Arden]

Yeah! Gun Monkey's background is finaly done. I should make a few notes, but in general, I like it.

It's also, by far, the longest background I've ever done.

BTW, I hate the spacing rules here. There should be a tab infront of each paragraph.

At first I thought he would just be some guy who loves guns, but I see he's actually a monkey. Original name

 

[Bront]

At first I thought he would just be some guy who loves guns, but I see he's actually a monkey. Original name

I got it from a friend, and kind of latched on to it.

And technicaly, he's a mutant human, but he's not sure himself.

 

[Bront]

BTW, how did the Journal Style come accross? It was just sort of an inspiration, but I've never written like that before.

 

[Rystil Arden]

I got it from a friend, and kind of latched on to it.

And technicaly, he's a mutant human, but he's not sure himself.

Ah, well that's cool--don't think I'm teasing you or anything (the history was good)

The thing I always found coolest about the idea of a superheroes campaign on Earth is that it opens up the option of playing a totally awesome mythical/legendary character and having them fit right in. If I ever made a character, I would totally play one of those, like Morgaine le Fay or Nimue, or maybe someone from Greek myth like Medea or Circe!

 

[Rystil Arden]

BTW, how did the Journal Style come accross? It was just sort of an inspiration, but I've never written like that before.

I thought that the journal style had a good feel to it that fit in well with the atmosphere you were trying to convey. When I first saw it, I thought it was going to be like a journal of an experiment gone wrong by a third party about your character, but the first person account worked too.