[dungeoncrawl] Re: Monster deities
- From: Johnathan Detrick <jdetrick@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: dungeoncrawl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2002 14:16:17 -0400
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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