By no small coincidence, I’ll be leaning on Mongoose Publishing’s Classic Play: Book of Immortals while developing Divine Trappings. The entire book is about how to play aspiring deities, and there’s a fair bit of material I’ll be able to repurpose. In particular, I’ll be looking to covenants for guidance …
One of the more visited topics on my site has to do with Polyhedral Pantheons, a book I wrote a few years ago that provides a simple process for building a pantheon… at least as far as the “assign domains, alignments, and favored weapons to deities” stage. Divine Trappings is …
In Anatomy of a God I wrote of the elements that I expect to include when describing a deity, and that I expect to use domains to gather the bases of these elements. This post expands on that idea, and describes the information I expect to include in a domain …
What makes up a deity? Leaving aside the philosophical elements, we can start pretty simply. In fact, we could get by with as little as a name (so we can identify which is which), an alignment (so we have some idea of what team they’re on and what their personality …
Once again I’m taking a run at the A-Z Blog Challenge. This time, I’m using it as impetus to write a book I’ve wanted to have for years. Deities in Dungeons & Dragons are largely defined, mechanically, by the domains they grant their clerics. When designing game entities such as …
Some years ago, Ben Robbins described his West Marches campaign. I’ve always wanted to run a campaign like this. Me being me, though, I like to be able to see at least over the next hill. For a West Marches campaign I don’t need to know a lot about what’s …
When last I looked at my Just the Rules series (i.e. April last year, almost nine months ago), I’d reached a point where I had the general shape of what I wanted, without being able to fill it in. I know what I want the level progression to look like. …
