The Revisited Polyhedral Pantheon Design technique still has a couple difficulties, though. First, if you use only the Revised System Reference Document (RSRD) you don’t have enough domains. The RSRD includes 22 domains — slightly more than needed if you don’t want the gods to have personal domains, but not enough to cover the shared [...]
Tag Archives: domain
Apr 14, 2012
Polyhedral Pantheons: Pathfinder Edition
Aug 29, 2010
Alignment Domain Talents
After presenting talents based on the domain feats published in Agents of Faith I got some useful comments. Some were as simple as identifying that particular tier abilities kind of sucked, some were suggestions for alternatives that looked like a rather better fit. I’ve decided to present talents for a few domains at a time. [...]
Aug 25, 2010
Divine Powers in Echelon
I think arcane spellcasters are fairly well handled with the Eldritch Weaving rules I’m adapting. Bards aren’t specifically addressed, but the adaptations needed are fairly straightforward. The Eldritch Weaving rules I’m adapting don’t really address divine spellcasters. Divine spellcasters also have other powers (domain powers, druidic abilities, and so on). This actually shouldn’t be terribly [...]
Jan 31, 2007
Divine Channelling
All clerics in a RAW game can either Turn Undead or Rebuke Undead. This doesn’t seem right to me because it seems to me that not all settings or religions would put enough emphasis on undead to make it relevant. Also, I don’t really like the way turning works — it either doesn’t work at [...]
Nov 13, 2004
Karma
I originally got the idea for my karma rules from David Harper’s Kismet rules. They are not available online, unfortunately. I have adapted them for use with d20 rules. Karma is a point-based measure of accumulated luck, divine favor, and other such concepts. Karma points are also sometimes referred to as ‘save-my-ass points’, reflecting their [...]
Aug 19, 2004
Cleric Domains
The cleric domains, as posted in the System Reference Document, do not quite suit my campaign. I’m adjusting them to better fit my prejudices and campaign requirements.
