[dungeoncrawl] Re: Monster deities
- From: jimkaren@xxxxxxxxxxxx
- To: dungeoncrawl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2002 14:16:04 US/Eastern
I think that's where Ao comes in (and
maybe with the other racial deities, as
well). After all, only the Faerunian
pantheon fought Dendar the night
serpent - not the far eastern,
mulhorandi, or demihuman. This was a
subject I discussed at length with
Shawn - what to do about those powers?
John has a point in that the world is
new, but I'm worried that consolidating
all worship might dilute the whole
point of having other races.
Bottom line is, if we get rid of the
other pantheons, let's come up with a
reason for the races existing. Again,
if we think our characters would be too
stubborn on this point, we can always
have them overruled by Ao -
> Speaking in that vein, would our
characters even think to populate the
world
> with monsters? I mean, from a world
developing standpoint you almost need
> them to make the world interesting to
adventure in, but would the characters
> think that way?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Johnathan Detrick
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> Sent: Thursday, October 17, 2002 2:16
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> Subject: [dungeoncrawl] Re: Monster
deities
>
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> Everything you say is true, but
aren't we starting a world from
> scratch? The people may believe they
have been around for centuries,
> but in reality, aren't they starting
on a brand new world? With that
> being the case, do we have to follow
the same rules as most worlds?
>
> jimkaren@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
> > 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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