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Frumious Flumph (Your Grace/Your Eminence)
I've been going over old files and notes on my original AD&D campaign, set in the Wilderlands of High Fantasy. In the 3E/3.5E era, I attempted to update the material to run for a new group of people. One of the features of the Wilderlands was its "everything and the kitchen sink" design philosophy, which extended to religions. Since they had used all of the, uh, "real world" pantheons in the original 1E AD&D Deities & Demigods book, I decided to update them to 3rd edition terms as soon as I got the 3E Deities & Demigods book.
An article in Dragon magazine ("Do-it-Yourself Deities," Dragon #283, May 2001) gave us the Greek, Celtic, Egyptian, Aztec, Chinese, and Norse pantheons. When Deities & Demigods came out, it updated and gave full treatments to the Egyptian, Greek, and Norse pantheons, but none of the others. Eventually, David Schwartz provided the Mesopotamian pantheon ("Mesopotamian Mythos," Dragon #329, March 2005), Aztec pantheon ("Aztec Mythos I," Dragon #352, February 2007 to "Aztec Mythos IV," Dragon #358, August 2007), and the Finnish pantheon ("Kalevala Mythos," Targum #4, Winter 2008).
The original book had the American Indian mythos, Arthurian heroes, Babylonian mythos, Celtic mythos, Central American mythos (i.e. Aztec and Maya), Chinese mythos, Cthulhu Mythos (from H. P. Lovecraft and related fiction), Egyptian mythos, Elric mythos (from Michael Moorcock's Elric novels), Finnish mythos, Greek mythos and heroes, Indian mythos, Japanese mythos, Nehwon mythos (from Fritz Leiber's Lankhmar novels), various Nonhuman's Deities (original TSR creations), Norse mythos, and Sumerian mythos. Some of those were not used in the Wilderlands, and with the stuff that came out, several were adequately covered.
The ones that remain are:
Did anyone ever write up these pantheons in D&D 3E/3.5E/PFRPG terms? I'm interested in reviving the campaign with a few of the original players, and this would be extremely helpful. Alternatively, if someone would be willing to share their notes, I'd be grateful!
An article in Dragon magazine ("Do-it-Yourself Deities," Dragon #283, May 2001) gave us the Greek, Celtic, Egyptian, Aztec, Chinese, and Norse pantheons. When Deities & Demigods came out, it updated and gave full treatments to the Egyptian, Greek, and Norse pantheons, but none of the others. Eventually, David Schwartz provided the Mesopotamian pantheon ("Mesopotamian Mythos," Dragon #329, March 2005), Aztec pantheon ("Aztec Mythos I," Dragon #352, February 2007 to "Aztec Mythos IV," Dragon #358, August 2007), and the Finnish pantheon ("Kalevala Mythos," Targum #4, Winter 2008).
The original book had the American Indian mythos, Arthurian heroes, Babylonian mythos, Celtic mythos, Central American mythos (i.e. Aztec and Maya), Chinese mythos, Cthulhu Mythos (from H. P. Lovecraft and related fiction), Egyptian mythos, Elric mythos (from Michael Moorcock's Elric novels), Finnish mythos, Greek mythos and heroes, Indian mythos, Japanese mythos, Nehwon mythos (from Fritz Leiber's Lankhmar novels), various Nonhuman's Deities (original TSR creations), Norse mythos, and Sumerian mythos. Some of those were not used in the Wilderlands, and with the stuff that came out, several were adequately covered.
The ones that remain are:
- American Indian mythos
- Arthurian heroes
- Celtic mythos
- Indian mythos
- Japanese mythos
Did anyone ever write up these pantheons in D&D 3E/3.5E/PFRPG terms? I'm interested in reviving the campaign with a few of the original players, and this would be extremely helpful. Alternatively, if someone would be willing to share their notes, I'd be grateful!
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