[dungeoncrawl] Re: Monster deities
- From: jimkaren@xxxxxxxxxxxx
- To: dungeoncrawl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2002 13:46:24 US/Eastern
I've been giving some thought to that
for a while - I'm not sure where I
personally fall. I think that most
campaign worlds include monster (and
demihuman) pantheons to stay consistent
with "vanilla" D&D.
But then why do different races exist?
If they aren't each governed by their
own pantheon, how did they come to be?
Were elves around before humans, for
example? If you follow traditional D&D
chronology, Dragons were one of the
earliest races - did they worship
this "current" pantheon?
>
> Just some more thinking from John.
> I figured that we would just
assume that most (if not all) of the
> typical monsters are present on the
new world (gnolls, orcs, ogres,
> etc). I think that sounds good. The
first few DMs that use them could
> always put a more interesting spin on
them, but for a start we assume
> they are all there.
> So the question becomes, who do
they worship? There are tons of
> monster deities (like Blibdoolpoolp,
Gruumsh, Lloth, etc) and they seem
> to be consistent amongst all campaign
worlds. Do we want to break
> tradition? Is there anyone that
would want to be a generic god over all
> humanoids? Do you think that some of
the evil deities, like Amrikol,
> would absorb the evil humanoids into
their faith? It could be quite
> interesting that way. I'd love to
see the way the orcs worship Amrikol,
> versus the way the humans might
worship him.
> What do you think?
> I can tell you right now that
most of my characters that are gods
> feel that there is no reason to have
specific deities for all of the
> non-human races. We may have some
(like Nelik) that get quite a strong
> demihuman following, but I'd rather
see the other races worship
> different deities. And I love the
idea of the evil gods using the fact
> that there is no dwarven god or orc
god or svirfneblin god to sway
> potentially neutral races to their
ways.
>
>
>
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