D&D General Greek heroes as D&D characters

[AnotherGuy]

Homer wasn't writing with D&D rules in mind!

What a noob.

 

[Ulorian - Agent of Chaos]

There's a new movie from Christopher Nolan coming this year based on Homer's Odyssey. I can't wait.

Very cool thread idea. When I was a kid, I read a lot of books. When I was bored, I'd even go through the 'adult books' that my mother had on her shelf. Mostly Agatha Christie mysteries and the like (and, unfortunately for my sleep patterns for a few months, The Amityville Horror). But amongst all of those was a raggedy old book on Greek mythology, printed in the 1920s or 30s. Read it cover to cover, multiple times. I've been hooked on Greek heroes, capricious deities, et al. ever since.

Sure comes in handy when someone wants an explanation of the etymology of words like narcissism, tantalise, and Sisyphean. Which is a shockingly infrequent occurrence...

 

[Tonguez]

Very cool thread idea. When I was a kid, I read a lot of books. When I was bored, I'd even go through the 'adult books' that my mother had on her shelf. Mostly Agatha Christie mysteries and the like (and, unfortunately for my sleep patterns for a few months, The Amityville Horror). But amongst all of those was a raggedy old book on Greek mythology, printed in the 1920s or 30s. Read it cover to cover, multiple times. I've been hooked on Greek heroes, capricious deities, et al. ever since.

Sure comes in handy when someone wants an explanation of the etymology of words like narcissism, tantalise, and Sisyphean. Which is a shockingly infrequent occurrence...

well I find avoiding narcissists to be a tantalisingly Sisyphean endeavour.
Yet such Promethean ambitions haunt me, and I am condemned, with Pythian certainty, to Icarian overreach and fall...