BookTenTiger
He / Him
Good to know that I enjoy a stupid concept!
Where in D&D does it say what a god must be? Why can't an aboleth be a god? A dragon? A snarling bunch of tentacles deep inside a cave, where locals bring their sacrifices?
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Where in D&D does it say what a god must be? Why can't an aboleth be a god? A dragon? A snarling bunch of tentacles deep inside a cave, where locals bring their sacrifices?
dave2008
Legend
Stupid concepts are often the best ones!
I don't mind killing gods (the race) if there is sufficient MacGuffin involvement, often highly symbolic or resonant to the mythology of the god in question. I wouldn't let some PCs rock up and defeat one through HP damage. But I would definitely let players seek out shards of the tree Odin hung himself from, carve them into spear tips, find a way to jailbreak Fenris, then use the spears to pin Odin down and prevent him from shapeshifting or fleeing while Fenris completes his grizzly task.
That kind of thing.
That kind of thing.
Azzy
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I think you may be colored by a more monotheistic view of all-powerful gods rather than what D&D has presented gods as throughout its history.
Multiple times in 4e D&D:
First-time godslayers - PCs kill Torog
I started my 4e campaign using the old B/X module Night's Dark Terror. That module involves a magical tapestry which, when touched with the appropriately needle and thread, forms a picture depicting the location of a hidden valley. As I ran it, though, the tapestry was a relic of the ancient...
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Session report - (Apect of) Vecna defeated, demon bargained with
The PCs in my 4e game, after defeating Torog, had confirmed (via divination rituals) rumours that frost giants were massing in the Feywild, as part of a plan to defeat the Summer Fey and steal the power of winter from the Raven Queen, to the benefit of Lolth. They therefore headed off to a place...
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PCs vs Queen of the Demonweb Pits
I ran a 4e session earlier today. The previous session the PCs were fighting a Discord Incarnate and its undead friends atop their Thundercloud Tower, which was hovering above the pit inside the Room with No Doors, 10' or so above a flickering portal to the Abyss which was hanging in the air...
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PCs vs Demonweb Pits (continued)
In my 4e session yesterday, the PCs finished their fight with Lolth, but this did involve some escalation into a fight with Pazuzu, as I will try to explain below. (Warning: long post ahead.) In our previous session, the PCs had defeated Lolth in her drow sorcerer form surprisingly easily. This...
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Session report - Victory over Orcus, escape from the Abyss?
It's been quite a while since I posted a session update for my 4e campaign. A couple of our players have been buying/selling/renovating houses, which sucks up weekends, and there's been travel and work and other distractions too, so we've had trouble making quorum. And with the campaign at its...
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In the 4e play I referenced just upthread, it was revolutionary: capturing Torog's flow of souls for the Raven Queen; killing Orcus and setting back Vecna so that the Raven Queen can strengthen her grip on all aspects of death; liberating the Drow from Lolth so they can return to the surface world and undo the sundering of the Elves.
Ideas from this book influenced my use of a "dead" god in a Rolemaster campaign. But the PCs were allies of the dead god, and the paladin became a worshipper of him, and they were able to bring him back to life as part of the culmination of the campaign.
