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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 8409884" data-attributes="member: 42582">I'm not talking about the whole of a setting. (Which setting? Speaker in Dreams is supposedly setting-agnostic. And I have hundreds of pages of GH material on my shelf, and I can tell you that nothing in that material would need to be revisited if I stuck Speaker in Dreams into (say) Urnst, and made the "infernal cultists" worship Asmodeus rather than Hextor.)I'm talking about Speaker in Dreams as a published work, and comparing it to a scenario that came in the City of GH boxed set. Asmodeus and Hextor are not serving different narrative purposes in those works. They are objects of worship for "infernal cultists" in both.And this feeds into my larger point in this thread - which is not that large a point: over the history of the published materials for D&D, evil gods and archfiends have frequently been interchangeable in the roles that the play. There has been no systematic difference pertaining eg to cosmological function or status; to their status as objects of worship; in whether or not they have clerics; etc.</blockquote>