Post by Deleted on Apr 30, 2015 4:00:17 GMT
What's the harm to it? Is it like that one fellow said, and I paraphrase, "D&DG rightly reduces the 'gods' of myth to what they are-glorified monsters"? Or do you have any experience transliterating Christianity into your game?
I try to avoid using real world deific tropes when I build my games' pantheons, in fact I'd be more inclined to have Forces at play rather than skyfathers in general, for the purposes of a game of D&D. Never mind that my B/X world has Santa Claus's bastard son roaming the land...
However, it's a true shame that there was no Bruce Galloway, of Fantasy Wargaming infamy, to have worked on Deities & Demigods. Instead we get this...this thing wherein there's some inspired art, some random stat blocks, and the cyclops safely tucked away in there so you have to carry another pound of book in your AD&D supplies.
We all know what's lacking from said book. Strangely, though, there's stats for Satan in a Dragon magazine. The Christian pantheon is still there, somewhere, in your game world, safely tucked away in a morass of myth and legend.
Does that mean that Clerics are assumed by default to worship Jesus? That makes things interesting, ho ho ho!
I try to avoid using real world deific tropes when I build my games' pantheons, in fact I'd be more inclined to have Forces at play rather than skyfathers in general, for the purposes of a game of D&D. Never mind that my B/X world has Santa Claus's bastard son roaming the land...
However, it's a true shame that there was no Bruce Galloway, of Fantasy Wargaming infamy, to have worked on Deities & Demigods. Instead we get this...this thing wherein there's some inspired art, some random stat blocks, and the cyclops safely tucked away in there so you have to carry another pound of book in your AD&D supplies.
We all know what's lacking from said book. Strangely, though, there's stats for Satan in a Dragon magazine. The Christian pantheon is still there, somewhere, in your game world, safely tucked away in a morass of myth and legend.
Does that mean that Clerics are assumed by default to worship Jesus? That makes things interesting, ho ho ho!
