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<blockquote data-quote="pawsplay" data-source="post: 5039929" data-attributes="member: 15538">At least Deities &amp; Demigods had basic write-ups of the Olympain, Egyptian, and Nordic deities. You could use those in your campaign. Also, while I can't think of any 3pp publishers who used the divine ranks, there are numerous critters in the ELH and third party publications who have some or all of the characteristics of a level 0 deity as laid out in Deities. It also has a perfectly serviceable writeup of cyclops, which puts it at least one usable writeup ahead of anything in WoL. Savage Species, say what you will, it had a Multi-Headed template I have used multiple times, SLA and supernatural ability based feats, and undead templates. While the total volume of good stuff is small, I would never get rid of my SS, because it has some genuinely useful things in it. BoED and BoVD take cool concepts and do basically everything wrong, but since I have known them to be used by many people in actual games, they also have a value greater than zero.I would estimate that the total number of people who used any WoL material at all, as written, to be approximately, oh, five. I doubt even the authors used it straight up. it's one of those books that looks bad until you try to play it, then you realize it's horrible. It was trying to implement a few of these items in my 3e game that resulted in the WoL going to the Half Price Old Roleplaying Books home.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="pawsplay, post: 5039929, member: 15538"] At least Deities & Demigods had basic write-ups of the Olympain, Egyptian, and Nordic deities. You could use those in your campaign. Also, while I can't think of any 3pp publishers who used the divine ranks, there are numerous critters in the ELH and third party publications who have some or all of the characteristics of a level 0 deity as laid out in Deities. It also has a perfectly serviceable writeup of cyclops, which puts it at least one usable writeup ahead of anything in WoL. Savage Species, say what you will, it had a Multi-Headed template I have used multiple times, SLA and supernatural ability based feats, and undead templates. While the total volume of good stuff is small, I would never get rid of my SS, because it has some genuinely useful things in it. BoED and BoVD take cool concepts and do basically everything wrong, but since I have known them to be used by many people in actual games, they also have a value greater than zero. I would estimate that the total number of people who used any WoL material at all, as written, to be approximately, oh, five. I doubt even the authors used it straight up. it's one of those books that looks bad until you try to play it, then you realize it's horrible. It was trying to implement a few of these items in my 3e game that resulted in the WoL going to the Half Price Old Roleplaying Books home. [/QUOTE]

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