PHB gods

[Staffan]

I just rechecked the PNB and Wee Jas is listed as Lawful Neutral.
Quote: "Her titles are Witch Goddess, Ruby Sorceress, Stern Lady, and Death's Guradian." If Nerull is the god associated with Death (killing things) then I thought Wee Jas must be the deity of seeing that souls go to the right place, corpses staying in the ground, etc... IMC, her church would be allied distantly with Boccob's (both keepers of magic) and either Hextor's, Heironeous' or St. Cuthbert's (whichever was the keeper of law in a particular land). Her church would be generally opposed to any chaotic religion and would work to thwart Nerull's church (although would probably avoid direct action when possible). If you were in my campaign, would you find that stupid?

Nope.

There's a lot of detail on the Suloise pantheon in the 2e supplement The Scarlet Brotherhood, written by Sean "Veggie Boy" Reynolds. As I recall, Wee Jas started out as the godess of magic and vanity. After a big cataclysm that destroyed the ancient Suloise homeland and forced the Suloise to migrate, lots of people were dying, and the people turned to Wee Jas to guide their souls in the afterlife - so she also became a godess of Death. That's a secondary thing for her, though - her main focus is on Magic.

 

[d12]

Wow, I've moved three times and changed jobs twice since I started this thread. We have an archeologist on the loose.

 

[WayneLigon]

This question applys to players and DMs. If your group uses only the gods listed in the PHB, has anyone in your group (especially players playing clerics) expressed disatisfaction with them? ...

We used them for the first campaign we ran, since we were going for a multi-DM game that anyone could pick up and run; we chose the PHB gods since they were there, and no-one could lose the notes about the campaign deities. One GM didn't really like them since there really isn't a stand-out four-square 'Good' deity in the Greyhawk setting, such as Lathander.

 

[Staffan]

One GM didn't really like them since there really isn't a stand-out four-square 'Good' deity in the Greyhawk setting, such as Lathander.

Pelor seems to fill that niche pretty well.

 

[Voadam]

We used them for the first campaign we ran, since we were going for a multi-DM game that anyone could pick up and run; we chose the PHB gods since they were there, and no-one could lose the notes about the campaign deities. One GM didn't really like them since there really isn't a stand-out four-square 'Good' deity in the Greyhawk setting, such as Lathander.

You didn't consider Heironeus a "a stand-out four-square 'Good' deity in the Greyhawk setting"?

 

[Wombat]

I never got into the gods in the PHB, not really knowing anything about Greyhawk -- these gods did not "speak" to me, as player or GM.

My current campaign uses a variation on the deities from The Book of the Righteous, a truly magnificent tome!

 

[hong]

No pantheon of gods IMC. If the Force is good enough for Star Wars, it's good enough for me!

 

[Tarrasque Wrangler]

Well, most of the racial deities in FR were originally published in a very old issue of Dragon (anyone with the archive CD-ROM know the issue #?), and were reprinted in 1E Unearthed Arcana. So if you consider the default campaign setting of 1E to be Greyhawk (as I think it was generally understood at the time) as it is in 3E/3.5, then those deities can exist in Greyhawk now as well. I don't know if the RPGA/Living Greyhawk people have some official ruling on those deities or not, but I'd say for home games DM's would be well within their rights to include them based on their 1E history. They add a great deal of verisimilitude to the races as well, IMHO.

 

[wolfheart]

IMC, I mixed some of the PHB gods with a few renamed Greek gods for a total of sixteen gods. To give them a little more flavor, though, I rehashed the domains so that each god has one or two domains that are unique to them. As an example, I kept Pelor, but now his domains are (with unique ones in bold): Glory, Light, Healing,protection, strength, sun, good.

 

[MonsterMash]

Personally I don't use the PHB gods or any others from the Greyhawk pantheon as I think think they fit my campaign. I use quite a lot of mythological gods and creatures from the 'real world' like the Celtic, Greek, Norse and Egyptian pantheons and a few local ones as well.