New Design and Development: Pantheon

[Sundragon2012]

Actually I know I will never actually use this D&D core pantheon because I prefer my own pantheon. However, in principle I like where the designers are taking the core D&D game. I never liked the GH gods because they always seemed eminently forgettable except for Vecna whose bodyparts seemed to litter the multiverse.



Sundragon

 

[allenw]

I'm certain we'll have a Goddess of Love/Fertility/Chainmail Bikinis. Don't think there's a pantheon that lacks it.

Well, there's the default 3e pantheon. In which a love-starved male deity looking for an equal female partner gets to choose between Wee Jas and Yondalla (both of which choices are kinda squicky, for different reasons, though in my campaign Hextor and Wee Jas are a couple). I'm not counting Ehlonna, since she strikes me as the "virgin goddess" type, what with the unicorns and all.
Which reminds me: has there ever been an official "half-Deity" template? It's, well, "classical," but doesn't seem to come up much in D&D.

 

[Kraydak]

Wee Jas is the only GH god I find intriguing taken alone. However having Heironeous and Hextor as brothers battling for her favors (and possibly offering up the souls of their dead heroes as offerings to her, she is a dead goddess after all) is quite flavorful.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Osiris/Set

Mithra/Set, please!

 

[Kraydak]

...
Which reminds me: has there ever been an official "half-Deity" template? It's, well, "classical," but doesn't seem to come up much in D&D.

Lvl 10+ PCdom works as a half-Diety template

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

I'm not counting Ehlonna, since she strikes me as the "virgin goddess" type, what with the unicorns and all.

Once you get past the unicorns, it's a totally different story, that's all I'm saying.

Raaaaar.

 

[mhensley]

Ok this was ok, but come on, are we ever going to see any Mechanics?

No we are not. And you can pin the blame on those damn preview books they want to sell. I bet that until those come out we aren't going to see anything about mechanics.

 

[Falstaff]

I'm hoping to see Orcus in the default pantheon. Actually, I'd like to see all demon-princes serve as the evil side of the D&D pantheon.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

I'm hoping to see Orcus in the default pantheon. Actually, I'd like to see all demon-princes serve as the evil side of the D&D pantheon.

Orcus is the evil god/demon prince worshipped in the first 4E module, so I think you're all set.

 

[Dire Bare]

No we are not. And you can pin the blame on those damn preview books they want to sell. I bet that until those come out we aren't going to see anything about mechanics.

Nope. Preview books won't contain mechanics either. We'll see mechanics in the online Dragon, but probably not till much closer till the game's release.