I've actually written Juiblex into my homebrew world directly as a lesser god- my cosmos has him slightly more powerful than the base one does, obviously. He's the god of Mud (in the para-elemental sense) in addition to slimes/oozes etc. However, his interests on the Abyss are less important to him as a result, and this explains why his layer is only partly controlled by him (he "shares" it with Zuggtmoy as per canon- and actually in the most recent divine lists I've made she shows up as well, as demigoddess of Decay). I based his religion around ideas related to the Lovecraftian entity Ubbo-Sathla, which supposedly gave birth to all life on Earth by way of the Elder Things creating the first shoggoths from its flesh. I figured it wouldn't be much of a stretch for fanatics to come up with the idea of "from slime we came, so to slime we should return."
Apparently, I go for the weird stuff.
Among the old-school lords, Demogorgon was my favorite of the Big Three until I actually had my 3.X game up to a level where confronting a demon lord was a feasible possibility. I got Big D peripherally involved in my ongoing plot because I took the party through Bastion of Broken Souls; if not for that I probably wouldn't have used him at all.
That said, I did use him, the party fought him directly when he invaded one of their primary planar bases of operations to take back the artifact they'd stolen from him (after he, naturally, had stolen it from somebody/thing else, not that that mattered to him). To my surprise, they pulled out all the stops for the battle and severely cleaned his clock, and this led to a rather more interesting development. I had Graz'zt make a personal appearance later on down the line, to flatter and make a bargain with the party sorceress for "protection" of her tribe in exchange for unspecified later favors (and of course, just general "good will.")
I'm having delightfully unpleasant thoughts coming up with ways to use this connection between them later, but things have become complicated by the fact that the sorceress herself recently left mortality behind to become a demigoddess. How this development may affect Graz'zt's "favor" is something I have yet to determine... any suggestions from the audience?![:]](http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/devious.png "Devious :]")
Apparently, I go for the weird stuff.
Among the old-school lords, Demogorgon was my favorite of the Big Three until I actually had my 3.X game up to a level where confronting a demon lord was a feasible possibility. I got Big D peripherally involved in my ongoing plot because I took the party through Bastion of Broken Souls; if not for that I probably wouldn't have used him at all.
That said, I did use him, the party fought him directly when he invaded one of their primary planar bases of operations to take back the artifact they'd stolen from him (after he, naturally, had stolen it from somebody/thing else, not that that mattered to him). To my surprise, they pulled out all the stops for the battle and severely cleaned his clock, and this led to a rather more interesting development. I had Graz'zt make a personal appearance later on down the line, to flatter and make a bargain with the party sorceress for "protection" of her tribe in exchange for unspecified later favors (and of course, just general "good will.")
I'm having delightfully unpleasant thoughts coming up with ways to use this connection between them later, but things have become complicated by the fact that the sorceress herself recently left mortality behind to become a demigoddess. How this development may affect Graz'zt's "favor" is something I have yet to determine... any suggestions from the audience?
