tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8345678810044169388.post1876416867831139605..comments2023-11-02T04:55:47.655-07:00Comments on The D&D Take: The place of the gods...Andrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13439204037397382556noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8345678810044169388.post-7190173878026270432009-08-31T20:40:37.387-07:002009-08-31T20:40:37.387-07:00Well, taking into account that the lesser gods hav...Well, taking into account that the lesser gods have like a character level of 40 or so (in 3.5, of course), it's only natural that even epic characters wouldn't have a chance against them.Françoise Díazhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15223195809799211677noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8345678810044169388.post-35400869376106320702009-08-26T00:44:17.391-07:002009-08-26T00:44:17.391-07:00Oh, absolutely. I'm simply saying that the ti...Oh, absolutely. I'm simply saying that the times when a god IS encountered tends to make a massive impact. I really like the ideas of huge, cataclysmic events that shake the foundations of the universe (or the world at least) when something in the cosmology changes and it does make absolute sense. <br /><br />I think the thing I like most is that 4th ed at least makes combating a deity feasible. In 3rd ed they were so powerful that you didn't ever even really think about taking them on because the power they wielded was usually ridiculously higher than even their levels indicated. They would have custom abilities and whatnot. You'd have .... Ares, I believe, who was a lvl 15 rogue, lvl 15 fighter. On top of that his abilities were all pimped out and crazy (befitting of Ares, of course) and just looking at his stats, you'd just go "Yeah, that ain't happenin'" <br /><br />I think this is a great topic and one that's is worth a whole lot of conversation, even if only because it could make for interesting story discussions! =]Andrewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13439204037397382556noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8345678810044169388.post-49429307997443286892009-08-25T23:03:39.953-07:002009-08-25T23:03:39.953-07:00Deities are a really good way to flesh out a campa...Deities are a really good way to flesh out a campaign setting—a setting where there are dozens of gods, each with a single domain, will be dramatically different from one with only two gods, who divide all the domains up between them. But in this role, the deities never need be directly encountered: the effects of their existence will be felt throughout the campaign.<br /><br />Actually meeting and interacting with a god isn't something that should be done lightly, and such an event should be rare, even in the epic tier, or otherwise the effect would become diluted. <br /><br />These are the most powerful beings in the entire universe, powerful enough to be a challenge not for a <i>single</i> PC, but for <i>a party of PCs</i>. They aren't only at the top of the food chain, but the gods define what the food chain actually is. If they're merely treated like yet another powerful NPC (by DM or PC), then something's wrong.<br /><br />Actually fighting a god, sharing space on a battlemat with a god and going base-to-base with him—that should be a world-shaking event with world-shaking effects. Killing a god shouldn't only mean you get a hefty block of XP and the rights to loot his apartment; there should be cataclysms wreaking havoc on a pan-planar scale, as appropriate to the god's domain, until a replacement deity steps in, and figures out how to control that domain. <br /><br />Then again, maybe they don't, but still there should be effects on the largest of scales.<br /><br />And then there's the question of that god's followers. What do they do? I doubt they would all just shrug and say, "Oh, well, that was fun while it lasted."<br /><br />Basically, what I'm saying is that if you're going to use gods in your campaign world, don't use them for stuff that a run-of-the-mill epic NPC could handle. That's just missing the point, really.silent stonehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15687840899349655370noreply@blogger.com