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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 8410334" data-attributes="member: 42582">Yes. Each is just one author's take. The boxed set authors include Douglas Niles and Carl Sargent. They're not minor figures in the halls of D&D authors!Yes. I've posted all this upthread.Going back to From the Ashes has been on my to-do list but I haven't yet. I'm not surprised that is subs in Hextor; Nerull seems to me to make less sense.As I've posted several times now, Dead Gods - a fairly well known Planescape module - has a priest of Orcus, with spells up to 5th level.Yes. I've made this point upthread - it's most of what I've been saying in all my contributions to this thread. (Also that Ed Greenwood, also not a minor figure, clearly thought the same at least in the mid-80s, given his Dragon 91 article.)But a number of those takes were pretty similar to Gygax, as the 2nd ed examples, the 4e examples, etc illustrate.Which all goes back to the thread topic: is there some systematic distinction between evil gods and archdevils/demon princes to be found in the D&D corpus? I think the answer is no - going all the way back to Men & Magic with its anti-clerics and evil high priests; and B2 and T1.</blockquote>