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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DrunkonDuty" data-source="post: 3826250" data-attributes="member: 54364">Oodles of folklore all the way.For the reason Nellisir said. There's so much good stuff out there to rip off. On the other hand William Blake did say something like: I must create my own mythology or be enslaved by another's.Someday I'm gonna rip Blake off too.But I wouldn't be comfortable gaming with JC at the table. I'd be worried he'd spend the whole time deconstructing my plot rather than playing it. And then in the 4th book he'd start going on about Thomas Mann. Oi vay.GreatLemur: Oh please can I start you on bringing Egyptian and Norse gods into campaigns? Pretty please?  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /> IMC (set in Greyhawk more or less) I'm using the official Dwarven gods names but they're all really just versions of the Norse Gods. Abbathor = Loki, Clanggeddin = Odin. I haven't made it obvious to the players, hell I doubt they'd notice, but that's whats going on in my head. And I've ripped off tropes and plots from Norse mythology too, including Beowulf (they missed the references) and I tried a hook that was pure and simple the story of Frey's wooing of Gerd which the PC's completely refused to take. (Rest of night spent with me running lack-luster random encounters and sulking.) No, they didn't refuse it because it was mythological, they just had their own agenda. As for Egyptian Gods: I LIKE 'em. But then I've had a hard-on for Egyptian mythology since I was a nipper. And Set is such a great villianous god. Even the good gods are scary (Anubis; Dead and Risen Osiris, creepy!) I haven't used them much in my gaming career, though, as most published game settings are mediaeval European in flavour and it takes a lot of work to create a fresh one on your own. But old Palladium had the Churches of Light and Darkness that were mostly the Egyptian gods and they got some air-time then.There's just no way Pelor can compete with Ra and his journey through the 12 Hours of Night, battling Apepi and its monstrous children in order to be reborn as the glorious morning. And Kord is just a poor man's Thor/Dagda/Indra/Zeus. Hopefully this sets Bast among the pigeons.</blockquote>

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