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BOZ
Creature Cataloguer
monster articles all in due time, but this doesn't go too far out of our realm does it? 
if you guys would prefer to set this one on the back burner for a later time, that's fine, but i'm not yet ready to start getting monster article ideas ready yet. this was kind of a "filler" that i thought would be interesting to explore.
if you guys would prefer to set this one on the back burner for a later time, that's fine, but i'm not yet ready to start getting monster article ideas ready yet. this was kind of a "filler" that i thought would be interesting to explore.
BOZ
Creature Cataloguer
that could be done, or spells, or magic items, or a PrC or two, as long as we can fit it all in the appropriate length.
OK then, the first step is writing up a Query for the editors: (see http://www.paizo.com/writersguidelines/dragon_writers_guidelines.pdf )
As determined, our revised bugbear pantheon will consist of six gods. We should write 2 or 3 sentences about each one we’d include. There is Hruggek of course, which they may or may not want us to include, and two existing gods, Grankhul the god of hunting, and Skiggaret the god of fear.
Beyond that, we would need to invent a god(dess) of fertility, earth, and death. I’ll post more information soon, but some ideas generated now would help. For the moment let’s keep things more general and less specific – we can flesh out ideas more later. In fact, I will be doing a fair amount of research before we really get into doing this.
OK then, the first step is writing up a Query for the editors: (see http://www.paizo.com/writersguidelines/dragon_writers_guidelines.pdf )
As determined, our revised bugbear pantheon will consist of six gods. We should write 2 or 3 sentences about each one we’d include. There is Hruggek of course, which they may or may not want us to include, and two existing gods, Grankhul the god of hunting, and Skiggaret the god of fear.
Beyond that, we would need to invent a god(dess) of fertility, earth, and death. I’ll post more information soon, but some ideas generated now would help. For the moment let’s keep things more general and less specific – we can flesh out ideas more later. In fact, I will be doing a fair amount of research before we really get into doing this.
Shade
Monster Junkie
Here are a few helpful links:
http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=lg/articles/lg20030521deitiessearch&tablesort=3
http://toril.info/monstrousmythology.htm
http://www.angelfire.com/d20/9hells/moreabyss.html
Apparently, there is another bugbear deity mentoned in Planes of Chaos called Gorellik, "the wandering bugbear god."
http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=lg/articles/lg20030521deitiessearch&tablesort=3
http://toril.info/monstrousmythology.htm
http://www.angelfire.com/d20/9hells/moreabyss.html
Apparently, there is another bugbear deity mentoned in Planes of Chaos called Gorellik, "the wandering bugbear god."
Alzrius
The EN World kitten
I'm always for seeing the D&D gods expanded. I don't really have any feelings about stats or not, but I think, as Erik said, its much more likely to get Complete Divine-style entries published.
The first notation I think we can make is that all of the remaining gods are going to be either Lesser deities or Demigods, since Hruggek is the "most powerful" and he's an Intermediate deity (so sayeth Complete Divine). The second is that the three we'd make up would probably also be CE, just like the rest.
As an aside, I think we'd be more likely to get this published if it was slightly more general about bugbears, as an article about bugbear gods seems like its going to strike a lot of people as superfluous (I'd love it, but a lot of people would wonder what impact it'd really have on their game).
The first notation I think we can make is that all of the remaining gods are going to be either Lesser deities or Demigods, since Hruggek is the "most powerful" and he's an Intermediate deity (so sayeth Complete Divine). The second is that the three we'd make up would probably also be CE, just like the rest.
As an aside, I think we'd be more likely to get this published if it was slightly more general about bugbears, as an article about bugbear gods seems like its going to strike a lot of people as superfluous (I'd love it, but a lot of people would wonder what impact it'd really have on their game).
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BOZ
Creature Cataloguer
Shade said:
if they think that gorellik is a bugbear god, then they's stupid.
Alzrius said:
agreed that they should all be lesser or demigods, in fact maybe all three demigods. As for alignment, I like a little variation. Maybe one could be NE, maybe one could be CN. It's up for debate. The other humanoid pantheons have variations, why not bugbears?
Alzrius said:
perhaps, perhaps not... well, one way around that would be as you say to include more info on the bugbears. remember those old PoV articles on the major humanoid and demi-human races? well, the bugbears never got one. the articles, for those who don't know, had a lot of information explaining why each race saw things the way they did, and then introduced a slew of new gods for the race (before then, most nonhuman races only had one god, as they do nowadays in the PHB).
well, maybe we could revive this idea here?
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