In My Campaign

For many years I’ve wanted a system to formalize developing relationships with organizations or other entities. I don’t want to apply it to everything — the number of connections can become immense — but where a relationship becomes significant enough to track, I want a way to formalize it. Most …

No matter how much detail a game entity such as a character, place, or even a deity has… it will only get interesting when it connects to other things. When it comes to deities, a deity standing alone is unlikely to be of any real interest. The connections between deities, …

Many years ago, GreyKnight created the “Keith Davies Blog Post Generator“, mostly to poke good-natured fun at me, but I admit I laughed… and I sometimes feel the urge to validate that post. The first table is ‘Subject Matter’, and two of the entries are ‘Revisit an old post and …

The first two factions I created in this pantheon had no interactions at all, as far as domain assignments are concerned. I added four more factions and started to see some interactions, including some potentially unreliable or even compromised faction members. One thing I didn’t check, though, was the distribution …

In my first run at building factions in this pantheon I ended up with a strongly polarized division. The two factions really had no direct interactions. They could well interact because they’re in the same pantheon, but the members of the factions have no overlapping portfolios. In this post I’ll …

I had planned to refine the factions I’d devised yesterday, but I ran into a complication. Namely, by focusing the factions on opposite sides of the polyhedron, I ensured there would be no real interaction between them. I even mentioned how polarized the pantheon was… but that’s not quite what …

For my purpose, a pantheon is a collection of related deities, joined by some combination of culture and interests. There may be subdivisions (as with the Norse pantheon of our world — the Aesir and Vanir), and deities may have different ranks within the pantheon. These ranks are typically related …

Time to get started. In the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game, deities can be mechanically defined as simply as a name, an alignment, a set of domains (and possibly subdomains), and a favored weapon. World building calls for a lot more work, but the base mechanics are a pretty functional place to …