I have always liked the Role Aids line from Mayfair Games. With the exception of a few issues of White Dwarf magazine, for quite some time they were the only non-TSR publisher of material for Dungeons & Dragons I knew of (I hadn’t heard of Judges Guild yet). The content …
When I wrote Polyhedral Pantheons I wanted to avoid gender assumptions: any particular deity of Healing might be male or female, or… maybe neither, or both. It worked out well, and I’ll apply the same technique here. The deity genders were assigned randomly. No table, but not quite a coin …
The last few posts have mentioned how a deity’s domains could interact with each other, changing the interpretation of the deity. Let’s see how that works, looking at the Destruction domain. This is unrehearsed and live, so I can’t predict how it will end up. From the worksheet in Building …
“Show, don’t tell” is one of the most commonly-known bits of writing advice, for a reason. There is little point to things known only to the author (or in my case, world builder or game master). If I create something only I ever see, it’s little more than an exercise …
Polyhedral Pantheons and Divine Trappings both depend on having a broad selection of domains. That need seems to be met pretty handily. Paizo Domains, Third-Party Domains, and Druid Domains I see three distinct sets of domains (plus a fourth that exists only on this blog, that I’ll be writing more …
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 …
