Greyhawk: Looking for quintessential book on pantheon

[pedr]

There's also the list of Greyhawk deities created for the Living Greyhawk RPGA campaign, which is available here: http://www.wizards.com/rpga/downloads/LG_Deities.zip

I don't know how it was compiled, but I expect it was a manual search of all canon Greyhawk sources. It lists name, gender, rank, area of influence, titles/vernacular names, holy symbol, alignment, origin of worship, core worshippers, other worshippers, favoured weapon, weapon for the 3e spell 'Weapon of the Deity', 3e domains and (for many deities) special notes and a descriptive paragraph on personality, concerns and doctrine.

It doesn't have a clear breakdown by pantheon, but it does have an index of deities by domain granted and by alignment, and the pdf is searchable.

There was a plan, when the document was published in March 2005, to complete the missing descriptions 'in a few days', but the pressures of running a Living Campaign appear to have delayed that project!

It lists as its sources:

Complete Divine by David Noonan; Deities and Demigods by TSR, Inc.; Deities and Demigods by Rich Redman, Skip Williams, and James Wyatt; Demihuman Deities by Eric L. Boyd; Draconomicon by Andy Collins, Skip Williams, and James Wyatt; Faiths and Pantheons by Eric L. Boyd and Erik Mona; Frostburn by Wolfgang Baur, James Jacobs, and George Strayton; Glossography for the Guide to the World of Greyhawk by Gary Gygax; Libris Mortis by Andy Collins and Bruce R. Cordell; Living Greyhawk Gazetteer by Gary Holian, Erik Mona, Sean K. Reynolds, and Frederick Weining; Monster Mythology by TSR, Inc.; Races of Stone by David Noonan, Jesse Decker, and Michelle Lyons; Return to the Temple of Elemental Evil by Monte Cook; The Scarlet Brotherhood by Sean Reynolds; Slavers by Sean K. Reynolds and Chris Pramas; “Beings of Power: Four Gods of Greyhawk” in Dragon (April 2002) by David Noonan; “Blood of Heroes” in Living Greyhawk Journal #3 (February 2001) by Sean K. Reynolds, Fred Weining, and Erik Mona; and “The Vault of the Drow: Dark Elf Metropolis” in Living Greyhawk Journal #14 (August 2002) by Frederick Weining. All of the descriptions of deities in this product are excerpted from these resources.

 

[catsclaw227]

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.

Would these be in the Dragon CD compilation, and is that even available anywhere, anymore? Where are Roger Moore's demi-human deities found?

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.

Unfortunately, 263-264 are unavailable at Paizo. I'm not interested in dropping $30 on three mags to get a few deites and a bunch of 2ed crunch. If they were in PDF, on the cheap, I'd do it in a sec.

There's also the list of Greyhawk deities created for the Living Greyhawk RPGA campaign, which is available here: http://www.wizards.com/rpga/downloads/LG_Deities.zip

This is a good list, as ugly as it is. The one I have is Version 2.0 March 2, 2005. It would be great if it was bookmarked, the descriptions updated and in some cases completed) and updated with images of symbols.

Are the images of symbols from the core books Open Content?

 

[coyote6]

Are the images of symbols from the core books Open Content?

I doubt it; it's not in the SRD, the gods from the core books aren't Open Content, and very little (if any) artwork is ever declared open.

 

[Glyfair]

Would these be in the Dragon CD compilation, and is that even available anywhere, anymore? Where are Roger Moore's demi-human deities found?

There are three on eBay now. Prices range all over, but I'd expect to pay over $100 for it (someone lucked out and got a damaged one for $51 after S&H).

 

[catsclaw227]

There are three on eBay now. Prices range all over, but I'd expect to pay over $100 for it (someone lucked out and got a damaged one for $51 after S&H).

Ouch....

Actually, I dug through my Dragon issues and found my issues 263-265, I didn't even remember that I had them.

Something to look through, at least. I really like the LG Deities list, but it needs to be completed and cleaned up. Sounds like a good fan project, if you ask me. Unfortunately, I am not a Greyhawk guru by ANY stretch of the imagination.

 

[Ripzerai]

The Oerth Journals have many articles on the gods of Oerth in them.

I like my version of Nerull better.

 

[the black knight]

Now that I think of it, the quintessential book on Greyhawk deities has yet to be written. Something to look forward to, I guess.

 

[catsclaw227]

Now that I think of it, the quintessential book on Greyhawk deities has yet to be written. Something to look forward to, I guess.

I say to WOTC, let Erik Mona, Sean K Reynolds, Ripzerai, Gary and Rob get together and let the games begin!

 

[grodog]

catsclaw---

It looks like you've pored through many of the key sites on GH gods already, but I have a few on my links page @ http://www.greyhawkonline.com/grodog/gh_links.html that you may not have visited yet. I also recommend DMPrata's deitybase file @ http://members.cox.net/dmprata/Deitybase.pdf (which I don't have linked on my site, somehow; I apparently need to trim some dead wood from the page too...).

I love the LGJ index in issue #3, as well as the great article on quasi- and hero-deities: well-worth digging up sometime. The LG index is based on that, and expands it further IIRC. SKR also wrote a similar index, IIRC.

 

[catsclaw227]

It looks like you've pored through many of the key sites on GH gods already, but I have a few on my links page @ http://www.greyhawkonline.com/grodog/gh_links.html that you may not have visited yet. I also recommend DMPrata's deitybase file @ http://members.cox.net/dmprata/Deitybase.pdf (which I don't have linked on my site, somehow; I apparently need to trim some dead wood from the page too...).

I love the LGJ index in issue #3, as well as the great article on quasi- and hero-deities: well-worth digging up sometime. The LG index is based on that, and expands it further IIRC. SKR also wrote a similar index, IIRC.

The Deitybase is pretty cool. It didn't really click with me to find out that the core pantheon in D&D were actually collected from different pantheons (Suel, Flan, Bakluni, etc). Does anyone know the key reasons why the the core deities were done this way? Is it to represent that cultures merged and that these are the key representatives of the different pantheons?

Do the various Gods of one pantheon acknowledge the others (in a documented way)?