Posting challenges, usually time bound or on a particular topic or theme.
It seems like every time I write about deities, I end up drafting a new pantheon. This might be a habit or a fixation. And I’m okay with it. This time I’m going to do it so I’ve got some names to attach to things. I find I can fill …
Just a couple tonight. Nobility is a bit of a challenge because ‘noble characteristics’ vary by culture. Knowledge is a much simpler. The hallmarks of knowledge tends to be much less culturally specific. Nobility Deities with the Nobility domain tend to epitomize the culture that venerates them. Thus, while there …
A few days ago I tried to draft domain aspects for alignment domains, and I wasn’t satisfied with what I came up with. I’m nothing if not tenacious, so here I am. … and I’m still not completely satisfied, but I feel a lot better about what I have today …
Part of my thesis behind this work is that a deity’s characteristics can be shaped by, if not defined by, the deity’s domains. How is this actually done, though? It’s fairly simple overall. I’ve found when applying Polyhedral Pantheons I start to get a sense of the deity’s nature from …
Nine years ago tonight (I’m trying to maintain a couple days’ buffer at least, but I’m writing this the night before it’s supposed to go up) I wrote Hilljack Deities of the Goblin Pantheon, as part of my work on Polyhedral Pantheons. I figure they’ll be a good testbed for …
In fact, it looks like Good, Evil, Chaos, and Law domains are all hard to define. Looks like I’ll need to mulligan this one. I tried drafting aspects for the alignment domains, and have concluded they will probably be the most difficult because they are so abstract. For most domains, …
Picked the title when I thought each domain would be a page or two, turns out I got two domains on a single page. Ah well, keeping the title as it is. Over the last couple of days I’ve posted a deity template and a domain template. Before I go …
Okay, yes, it’s a ‘domain aspect template’, but I used ‘D’ yesterday and today is for ‘E’, so ‘elements’ it is. Three years ago I drafted a domain template the first time, but what’s changed now that I’ve revisited my deity template? Let’s see… starting from the top, and understanding …
Time to look at an easy one: the template for describing a deity. This was actually one of my first topics last time I worked on Divine Trappings. I wonder what’s changed. Last time, I started with my Entity Template, and that’s a pretty good thing to start with. This …
Yesterday, I put up a list of all the posts from the 2021 A-Z Blog Challenge, for those interested in what came before. For those who want something a little simpler and quicker, here’s a summary. What I Think First, where I’m coming from, to explain why I’m doing this. …
