I started writing about the jhesiri deities some time ago, but never finished. I found I had gotten into too much of a rut, and while a little bit of atrocity was fitting, it was too much. I wasn’t happy with what I’d written and basically abandoned it. A few …
Time to start talking about the characteristics of various polyhedra when applying the polyhedral pantheons methods. Since the entire thing was prompted by the use in the Rose of the Prophet trilogy of an icosahedron to describe and define the deities, and since it is “I Day” in the April A-Z Blog Challenge, …
It’s ‘H Day’ in the A-Z Challenge, and time to start fleshing out the new goblin pantheon. I will start with the Hilljack deities, who are followed by a secretive and really not that bad a tribe… for goblins, at least. Hilljack Deities Hilljacks (‘vorubec’ their own tongue) are the least …
I started work on a goblin pantheon a while ago, but stalled out when I realized I wasn’t satisfied with the direction it was going. I decided to take another run at it. Destruction is still a major focus, and I’m keeping some of the relationships in order to support the …
Yesterday I described the earth deities of the Tetratheon, today I describe the fire deities. I did have a couple surprises while working on this. The biggest one was while I was working on Sjajan. Originally my focus was in a different direction, but while trying to figure out what her servants …
The Elemental Tetratheon is one of the bigger pantheons included in the upcoming Polyhedral Pantheons book. The pantheon is designed around the four elements, with each of the greater gods focused on a single element and having three aspects related to that element. There are also three other gods that are lesser …
I’m parking the autoscaling magic items idea for a few days while I let my subconscious work on it. I’ve already got posts planned for Monday and Tuesday (‘E’ and ‘F’ — Earth Gods of the Tetratheon and Fire Gods of the Tetratheon respectively). Today, though, I’m going to look again at …
I had originally planned to write about how autoscaling magic items are enchanted (“construction of an autoscaling magic item”) but it makes more sense to describe what they look like mechanically first. Guidelines First, consumable magic items really aren’t appropriate as autoscaling items. The whole point is that the items will …
Yesterday I started discussing the idea of magic items that automatically scale with wielder level. I’d like to explore the idea a bit further and how it might be implemented. To start, I’ll look at some existing approaches to this idea. Prior Art This is not a new idea. I can think of …
Many players of Dungeons & Dragons expect the power of magic items to be roughly commensurate with character level. On the one hand, this can be pretty important to party balance. If one PC in a first-level party has a +5 weapon he will be much more powerful than the other PCs. …