The Midget's Deity-A-Week Thread!

[I'm A Banana]

Done and done.

And don't let the man get you down, Horacio! Fight the power! Rock illegally! You gotta fight for your right to paaaaat-ay!

Wow, I need to stop these 4 AM "sugar rushes"...

Anyhoo, Callarduran's Rites and Rituals and a few plot and character hooks comin' straight up. Right....eventually!

 

[Horacio]

4 a.m. sugar rushes are good for posting, trust on me, KM

 

[Olive]

*NOTE: All creatures with any divine status can grant spells from any of their three domains to any worshiper, though they are not capable of many of the other feats of godhood. In order to grant spells, creatures of 0 DR require a sacrifice that varies based on the domain granted and the deity granting it. Note that one sacrifice may satisfy more than one domain’s requirements (such as sacrificing one Paladin to meet Juiblex’s Law and Chaos requirements)
Among Juiblex’s domains, the following sacrifices are required. One sacrifice is enough to grant spells for one week per HD of the sacrifice. Domains marked with an asterisk are alternate domains possible in certain cults or in campaigns ignoring the Divine Rank – Domain link.
Chaos: Sacrifice one sentient being of Lawful alignment
Evil: Sacrifice one sentient being of Good alignment
Madness: Scar yourself with at least one point of acid damage
*Creation: Expand the area of a dumping ground, swamp, or stagnant mire by at least 15 feet.
*Destruction: Destroy one building of at least 15 square feet via application of acid and/or waste
*Water: Bring at least one week’s worth of water to a place that lacks it
*Earth: Defile at least one week’s worth of pure water with the application of waste, mud, etc.

where does this idea come from? i like it!!! i want to introduce hero deities to my game, but need something like this... now i need some sacrifices!

 

[Olive]

CALLARDURAN SMOOTHHANDS, THE LORD OF DEEPEARTH
Portfolio: Protection, Mining, Trickery, Illusion
Salient Abilities: (17) Extra Domain (good)

um... shouldn't that extra domain be illusion? or something? not good?

 

[chip079]

this is some cool stuff. just dropping off some praise.

 

[I'm A Banana]

Heh. Thanks everybody. I love this place.

* Sacrifices: The idea came when I was hopped up on some acid seeing all these crazy skulls that told me to eat some Gardetto's. Then I did, and got sick. And while I was bowing to the porcelin god, the thought occured to be about how the heck Monte and the rest on the Book of Vile Darkness want to make those demon god dudes actually grant spells...and then I started thinking about what demon gods actually did and what their cultists spent a lot of time doing and it occured to me that while Hextor may just kill good guys for fun, these guys are a whole lot weaker in the knees than those guys. They're going to need a real good reason to want to hurt the good guys -- they feed off of the advancing of their own beliefs. (though I do need to re-word that to exclude the HD...bah me!) Basically, I wanted to give them a reason to do the bad stuff beyond general murder and mayhem, and some way for creatures without DR to grant all the spells they need. Compromise made.
...and if you want, I may be able to feature some hero-deities here, as I've been kinda looking for good/neutral outsiders that would work the same way demon lords and such do now.

*Callarduran's Extra Domain: Well, this comes from me wanting to stick with what WotC has already published, which says that he did pick up the Good domain (though I didn't include it in the first domains he got). And, aparently, Svirfneblin are actually good in 3e (which is wierd, but I'll wait for them to show me that it works before I say it's stupid...) I would highly recommend going with another domain, and Illusion works great, even though it's not core, if you're sticking with the Neutral svirfneblin.

*Praise can drop whenever you'd like. It'll keep me going.

Wow. Thanks, guys. Maybe Bastion'll be interested in picking me up to do some of their god stuff, eh?

 

[ColonelHardisson]

Get back to work! This is exactly what I was hoping someone would do...now, let's hope the pantheons they left out of Deities & Demigods (Cletic, Finnish, etc.) get covered...hint hint.

 

[Olive]

now, let's hope the pantheons they left out of Deities & Demigods (Cletic, Finnish, etc.) get covered...hint hint.

but not before you finish EVERY SINGLE MONSTER GOD AND DEMON LORD AND DEVIL AND EVERYTHING!

ok? thanks...

 

[NiTessine]

I'm thinking Finnish and Celtic pantheons are more important than monster and demon deities, but then again, I may be biased. But, regardless of which ones get done first... This is one awesome thread. Excellent work.

 

[I'm A Banana]

BOO-YAH!

Added Callarduran's rites and rituals, and designed a few svifneblinish (wow...wierd word...) plot hooks. The blex is the last one I have to do before the next deity comes up.

As for the Human Deities vs. Ficticious Deities thing...well, I do hope to get around to human deities quickly enough, but they've already got a scad of stuff on them. From Bastion Press's PDF's to real-world books on myth to many, many homebrews. I would want to distinguish by doing them justice in a fantasy world.

Also, while I have a 2e Monster Myth book, I'm lacking the 2e Legends and Lore (it was out of print before I started playing), and I haven't seen it offered as a PDF yet. I remember there being a Word document which was 2e Legends and Lore, but I ain't got it no more...

I'll look for it on the Wizard's site now, but they may have taken it off.

The monstrous deities give me more wiggle room, too. I can freely make up pseudo-scientific discussions on them, whereas for the real-world mythos I'm limited more to what actually happened.

I hope to get around to some human deities, but I'm going to need a better source on their myths (I've got a modest collection of world myth books, but if anyone can suggest something...), 2e Legends and Lore, and more time to work out the technicalities of them. It will happen eventually (if I keep gettin this much encouragement, anyway. ), but they're going to need more preperation than the monstrous deities.

Anyhoo, I do take suggestions for deities (that's how the Blex was done), so feel free to suggest it to me. If I get a lot of suggestions for real-world guys, I may end up doing them a bit early, after testing the waters with the ones I can feel free to abuse and elaborate as I please.

Basically, for stuff like Callarduran, I can pull rites and rituals and temples and dogma outta my pooter, but I'd need a better scholarly perpective on, say, Finnish myth, before I could try and tackle that in game terms. There may be some Finnish Myth Buff who calls my stuff absolute bunk because it didn't take into account some obscure practice of some god or another. I'm sure some of that's unavoidable, but I would like to know what I'm talking about before I start babbling.

So, yeah, it'll be done, but those will be the next-to-last. Right before I start accepting fan submissions and get money from Natural 20 press to publish all of these in print.

On the bright side: This is mostly fluff! HAHAHAHA!

A*hem. Better now. I'm going to stop babbling and get back to thinking of a witty subject line for the announcement to the General forums that this has been updated...hehehe.