Welcome to my 2025 A-Z Blog Challenge! This year, my theme is ‘Small Gods’. Gods are often depicted as immortal, immensely powerful beings. They often epitomize elements and aspects of mortality, while not themselves being mortal. Even if not omnipotent — how can they be, when they can defeat each …
I’m getting a little ahead of myself, but it’s timely for other reasons. I have a use for this table right soonish. When I wrote Polyhedral Pantheons, I wanted to avoid associating any domain with either gender. I came up with a scheme to randomize the gender selection. I could …
It is A-Z Blog Challenge time again! This year I’m going back to an older topics, part of my Year of the Lost: Small Gods. Small gods are semi-divine entities that can be focus of faith at local levels. In most roleplaying games, it seems deities are omnipresent, if not …
My last post gives a d86 table of actors and their actions. I had to exclude many words because they were for roles that do not have ‘actions’. How does one ‘king’? Can one be said to be ‘kinging’? ‘Kinging’ doesn’t even pass spell check! Of course, in English you …
Most name generators I’ve found connect syllables in ways that hopefully make sense, or are at least pronounceable. Some are thematic, based on names from certain cultures. Others lean on pulp naming conventions, as Tome of Adventure Design does. These serve their purpose, in that they give me labels for …
I’ve put a lot of time into making pantheons. The process is straightforward but a full pantheon is time-consuming. Small gods should be easy enough to create at need. Their limited power and expected scope means I want them to be easy to write. Normally I’d expect to have a …
