Mezoamerican gods

[DragonLancer]

Where can I find game details for the Mezoamerican gos for D&D (domains and the like)?

Thanks.

 

[I'm A Banana]

Since "Mesoamerican" covers quite a broad swath, it's hard to help.

Name a few gods (or cultures, even), I'll recommend a few domains.

 

[DragonLancer]

I'm looking for Aztec gods, some information on them plus domains and favoured weapons.

Suggestions would be great. Are there any D&D sourcebooks or fan pages that cover them?

 

[Shroomy]

You can check out Dragon 352, it has 3.5e information for the Aztec gods Quetzacoatl and Tezcatlipoca. This is apparently the first part of a series on real world Mythos.

 

[Bad Paper]

The 1st ed Deities&Demigods / Legends&Lore books have them.

 

[Celebrim]

I don't know that anything official has been published. Meso-American has historically been one of thier least popular settings, so I'd imagine that they are in no hurry to publish material on it.

Looking at my 1st edition Deities and Demigods for the Aztec pantheon, and doing some extrapolation yields:

Quetzalcoatl (Greater God, Power of the Air) - Domains: Air, Community, Law, Life, Nobility, Scalykind
Quetzalcoatl is the wisest and perhaps most powerful of the Gods. He is rather disgusted by the other dieties and disappointed by mankinds failure to obey his just laws.

Camaxtli (Greater God, Power over Destiny) - Domains: Balance, Fate, Protection, Sun, Truth
Camaxtli is the time traveling god of fate.

Camazotz (Lesser God, Lord of Bats) - Domains: Chaos, Darkness, Evil, Hunger
Camazotz is the ever hungry god of bats. People appeal to him to destroy insects, but he will eat whatever he finds.

Chalchiuhtlicue (Lesser Goddess, Goddess of Affection) - Domains: Chaos, Good, Joy, Water
Unlike other love goddesses, Chalchiuhtlicue practices celibacy. She is the goddess friendship, romance, and compassion.

Huhueteotl (Greater God, Lord of Fire) - Chaos, Destruction, Evil, Fire, Time
A bitter enemy of Quetzalcoatl, Huhueteotl must receive regular sacrifices or he will snuff out the sun.

Huitzilopochtli (Lesser God, Lord of War) - Balance, Protection, Strength, War
Huitzilopochtli only cares about war and can only be worshiped in the midst of battle. He doesn't particularly care who wins, only that they fight well.

Itzamna (Greater God, God of Medicine) - Good, Healing, Knowledge, Travel, Trickery
Itzamna is the friend of mankind, secretly travelling among them and helping them against the other gods. Though quite weak, he is capable of outwitting his enemies

Mictlantecuhtli (Greater God, God of Death) - Death, Evil, Law, Undeath, War
In my opinion, one of the most evil gods that has ever been worshiped by anyone anywhere. This is bad bad news.

Tezcatlipoca (Greater God, God of the Heavens) - Chaos, Darkness, Domination, Evil, Moon, Sun
The great enemy of Quetzalquotl and leader of the other gods in an effort to overthrow him. From his home in the darkness above, he seeks to wrest the sky from his enemy and assume complete supremacy.

Tlaloc (Greater God, God of Rain) - Destruction, Evil, Law, Water, Weather
Tlaloc is one of the most bloodthirsty gods ever invented by man and the principal demander of human sacrifice. If you want rain, you must bleed and cry for it. Fail in any of his most exactly rituals, and famine is sure to follow.

Tlazolteotl (Lesser Goddess, Lady of Vice) - Chaos, Charm, Evil, Trickery
Tlazolteotl has no greater joy than preverting friendships and ruining good people by provoking them into making acts of folly.

Xochipilli (Lesser God, God of Flowers) - Feast, Luck, Pleasure, Travel
Xochipilli seeks only to enjoy life.

 

[Shemeska]

Camaxtli (Greater God, Power over Destiny) - Domains: Balance, Fate, Protection, Sun, Truth
Camaxtli is the time traveling god of fate.

Camaxtli also happens to be one of the gods that Tenebrous/Orcus obliterated with the Last Word during the events of Dead Gods.

 

[Tonguez]

Tlaloc (Greater God, God of Rain) - Destruction, Evil, Law, Water, Weather
Tlaloc is one of the most bloodthirsty gods ever invented by man and the principal demander of human sacrifice. If you want rain, you must bleed and cry for it. Fail in any of his most exactly rituals, and famine is sure to follow.

Yes its amazing what atrocities can be justified by the worship of ones god

 

[Arkhandus]

I am almost dead-certain that there is an issue of Dragon Magazine for 3rd Edition that has a short list of Mesoamerican deities and, at the very least, their basic cleric-related details (domains, portfolio, alignment). The issue included similar details in that article, on some oriental deities, egyptian deities, and I think a few others. I'm fairly sure it was the issue that had basic D&D religion-inspiration material, like some info on a few hoodoo/voodoo deities, basic historical deity archetypes (the green man, the reaper, the sun god, etc.), and other stuff (may've also been the issue with deathtouched creature templates? I dunno. Think it was an October issue though, from at least a few years ago).

I'll post again if I find the issue soon, I know it's somewhere in my room......

 

[James Jacobs]

As Shroomy mentions above, Dragon magazine is starting up a series of Class Acts articles that detail several of these deities. And over in Dungeon, the Savage Tide Adventure Path is thick into the Isle of Dread, whose native inhabitants worshiped these deities. Tlaloc, Quetzalcoatl, Camazotz, and several others are fairly significant thematic elements of the adventures that take place on the Isle of Dread in this campaign.