Greyhawk: Looking for quintessential book on pantheon

[catsclaw227]

Hello All!

I am looking for the quintessential resource on the Greyhawk pantheon (or... "default" pantheon). I am hopeful that we will see a continuation of the Core Beliefs articles in the DI, but I am in a much more immediate need.

From the reviews here at EnWorld, Deities and Demigods (v3.x) was woefully lame in documenting the Greyhawk gods and their followers, and the core books fall short.

I am looking for stuff on the full pantheon, the churches, priestly duties, followers, etc. I saw some very good articles on Canonfire by CruelSummerLord but I want more!

1. Is there a definitive list?
2. Who has done strong writeups and where can I find them?

This is what I know so far:

Core Beliefs Articles in Dragon:

#338 - Boccob
#342 - Olidammara
#346 - Pelor
#348 - Vecna
#350 - Wee Jas
#354 - Heironeous
#356 – Hextor
#358 – St. Cuthbert

CanonFire Articles

The Deities of the Flanaess: Incabulos
The gods of the Flanaess: St. Cuthbert
On the Religions of the Flanaess: Boccob
Gods of the Flanaess: Pelor
Gods of the Flanaess: Nerull
Gods of the Flanaess: Heironeous

This 2nd edition document: From the Ashes Priesthoods of the Powers of Greyhawk

Is there anything else? Do I need to resort to a PDF copy of 3.x Deities and Demigods?

Erik? Help?

 

[Dragonhelm]

IIRC, Greyhawk Adventures had a really good listing of deities. It even listed some deities not in the current PHB, such as Celestian (never could figure out why that was).

I believe that the Living Greyhawk Gazetteer also has a good listing. Great 3e resource for Greyhawk.

Hope that helps.

 

[Bayushi Seikuro]

The Living Greyhawk Gazetteer does have the pantheons etc. However, they're not divided up by race/region etc - so the Suel gods are mixed in with the others, etc for example. Definitely good reading; there were some deities I'd never even heard of.

 

[Arkhandus]

Yep. The Living Greyhawk Gazeteer (softcover 3E book) has descriptions, domains, titles, and cleric alignments for numerous deities of Oerth from various faiths. Sueloise deities, Oeridians, Baklunish, Flan, olven, and a few others I think. Even the god of Xvarts, and a few others I think, are in the LGG.

The 3.0 supplement Defenders of the Faith has a very very brief description of various non-human deities of D&D, and I think they're all Oerthly deities (stuff like Maglubiyet, Vaprak, Chronepsis, Blibdoolpoolp, Eadro, etc.).


Also, there's a thread somewhere in this General forum for 'Every God In D&D....EVER". I think Alzrius was the thread-starter? I forget. Do a Search or ask someone else to Search for the thread, it should be a useful resource to you.


Quick edit: also, for reference, you don't need Deities & Demigods. Those deities are all in the Living Greyhawk Gazeteer and described with the same, or very nearly the same, detail (much of the fluff for them in De&Dg is a direct copy of the LGG descriptions)

 

[catsclaw227]

Quick edit: also, for reference, you don't need Deities & Demigods. Those deities are all in the Living Greyhawk Gazeteer and described with the same, or very nearly the same, detail (much of the fluff for them in De&Dg is a direct copy of the LGG descriptions)

That's good to know.

I am looking at dropping the coin on LGG (the PDF) at rpgnow.com, but I am holding off until I can get some more references.

Edit: Is there anything in From the Ashes and the subsequent Carl Sargent products (WGR4 The Marklands, WGR5 Iuz the Evil, WGR6 City of Skulls) that are of value? Or how about Greyhawk: The Adventure Begins?

Keep 'em coming!

 

[Glyfair]

I believe that the Living Greyhawk Gazetteer also has a good listing. Great 3e resource for Greyhawk.

I believe one if the issues of the Living Greyhawk Journal #3 has an even more thorough list of the Greyhawk deities. I'll have to go dig it up.

 

[catsclaw227]

I am also a bit confused...

The Greyhawk wars supposedly occured in 582-584 CY, with the 2nd edition From the Ashes boxed set covering the Post war Greyhawk.

Yet, Greyhawk: The Adventure Begins appears to be a 1st edition AD&D Greyhawk supplement (according to rpgnow) set in 591 CY.

Am I missing something?

 

[Glyfair]

The Greyhawk wars supposedly occured in 582-584 CY, with the 2nd edition From the Ashes boxed set covering the Post war Greyhawk.

Yet, Greyhawk: The Adventure Begins appears to be a 1st edition AD&D Greyhawk supplement (according to rpgnow) set in 591 CY.

Adventure begins is a 2E product. It was the last Greyhawk "setting product" released before 3E (in '98).

http://home.flash.net/~brenfrow/gh/gh-begins.htm

 

[the black knight]

All the old dragon articles had great write-ups on the deities of Greyhawk, starting in the 50's I believe. Put it together with Roger Moore's demi-human deities and you've got almost everything you need for Greyhawk.

 

[NiTessine]

Dragon ran a three-part article series named "The Oeridian Lesser Gods" in issues 263-265. I'm not quite sure about the specific deities, but I know Telchur was there, as were Rudd and Delleb. Possibly also Sotillion, Atroa and Wenta.