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<blockquote data-quote="Upper_Krust" data-source="post: 4134662" data-attributes="member: 326">Howdy Mirtek! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />...mistakes.&nbsp;...and this was interesting why exactly?&nbsp;...apparently gods have been known to carry these.So unless a god is an idiot and doesn't want to defend itself against more powerful deities its going to carry an artifact, negating rule #1 (can only be killed by a god of greater stature).&nbsp;...so for those seeking to use 2E D&amp;D to run high-level fantasy in the vein of Moorcock, Howard, Lieber, Gygax or even classical mythology. Tough.&nbsp;...so a mortal with an artifact can fight, wound, injure, defeat, drive off, dissipate or otherwise banish an immortal but we don't have rules for any of this in the book.&nbsp;...but we'll shoe in a bunch of bland &quot;Avatars&quot; and defeating one is supposedly meaningful, except that the god can just send another one (or ten), or just pull a deus ex machina and kill you itself for the affront of attacking its Avatar.&nbsp;...so how can you tell Greater Deities are more powerful than Lesser Deities then?&nbsp;...when we confuse pantheistic and polytheistic gods with monotheistic GOD to appease a moral majority that cares not a whit for roleplaying games.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Upper_Krust, post: 4134662, member: 326"] Howdy Mirtek! :) ...mistakes. ...and this was interesting why exactly? ...apparently gods have been known to carry these. So unless a god is an idiot and doesn't want to defend itself against more powerful deities its going to carry an artifact, negating rule #1 (can only be killed by a god of greater stature). ...so for those seeking to use 2E D&D to run high-level fantasy in the vein of Moorcock, Howard, Lieber, Gygax or even classical mythology. Tough. ...so a mortal with an artifact can fight, wound, injure, defeat, drive off, dissipate or otherwise banish an immortal but we don't have rules for any of this in the book. ...but we'll shoe in a bunch of bland "Avatars" and defeating one is supposedly meaningful, except that the god can just send another one (or ten), or just pull a deus ex machina and kill you itself for the affront of attacking its Avatar. ...so how can you tell Greater Deities are more powerful than Lesser Deities then? ...when we confuse pantheistic and polytheistic gods with monotheistic GOD to appease a moral majority that cares not a whit for roleplaying games. [/QUOTE]

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