Yesterday I talked about tables I aim to create for Divine Trappings. I found I’d picked up the easy one, but there are quite a few more elements to consider.
Elements not included yesterday…
- Dogma (what followers are told)
- Tenets (what followers often believe)
- Duties
- Obedience was included in yesterday’s list.
- Covenants should be added, but are probably not a good candidate for a table. On the other hand, covenant definitions in Book of Immortals are pretty formulaic. A ‘covenant table’ that uses domain element tables may suit.
- Quests are not quite as formulaic as covenants. An first cut can be done with tables, but expressing fully probably can’t.
- Trials are about the same as quests.
- Boons look like they’ll come in two flavors. One is like Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Inner Sea Gods, which I think won’t lend itself well to tables. The other is like what I did while working on Patrons of Low Fantasy, which might.
- Priests (ordained worshipers) were already covered.
- Followers (lay worshipers) were already covered.
- Rites and Rituals can, at its base, be a list of spells not in the domain but appropriate for rituals. I imagine I can come up with a list of ritual name components. I can certainly come up with some ritual names (as with artifact names).
- Special Locations were already covered.
- Artifacts and Special Items were already covered.
- Legends could be trouble. I can probably come up with some legend name components, and a generic ‘legend name’ table using these lists.
- Allegiance was taken from Book of Immortals covenants, and can be a list (and thus, table). I like the more verbose expressions shown in Elements of Domain Aspects, though. I think I’ll have the list in the stat block and workbook, but include examples in the body text.
- Bond looks more descriptive, and I’m not sure it’ll make a good table.
These elements are in several ways more complex than yesterday’s. I’m going to give this some more thought, see how I want to integrate them. I think this will be a ‘weekend post’, rather than a ‘workday post’. Just as well it’s almost the weekend.
And then, work an example to see how it looks altogether. I do still hope to get a domain aspect on a single page. If I have to go to a spread, though, I want to use it all.