Getting to Know the Unknown Gods
I was transferring files over to my new laptop when I came across this. It was something I was working on last winter for my Wilderlands game before I started work in earnest on Shades or the...
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Thanks Michael, I remember seeing some of these from years ago so its useful to have compiled."Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers." Voltaire
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Here some descriptions of Unknown Gods that I wrote a while agoBrigitBrigit (Bri-git), Goddess of Poetry, Healing, and Smiths, is Chaotic Good. Brigit is a goddess with a triune aspect of poet,...
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Ah, the Unknown Gods. As I was looking through my old books, I came across this product again. Funny how now those stats seem so out of place. heck, even against the Deities & Demigods stats they...
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It works that way these days in the Wilderlands, too, Joe.Anything can be a god in the Wilderlands, transformed through the faith of the people. A tree, a frog, a mutant hobgoblin with a third eye and...
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Do you happen to have any more of your fine updates kicking around james?
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Blair,Thanks for your vote of confidence! Glad you enjoy my material.Unfortunately, right now, no. Work's been absorbing my life lately, even moreso than usual, and my current games are based in...
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Why is it that all of the War domain gods have simple weapons as their favored weapon??? What a bummer!
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Hello Folks, One of my more astute players asked me good question that kinda stumped me as well: Why do so many of the goddesses of pleasure, love, sex ect. evil ? Does this say something about the...
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Ltlconf,Interesting question!Let's look at a couple of these... there were, in fact, two more in Unknown Gods that didn't make the cut into the Player's Guide to the Wilderlands.Tama Hama, Goddess of...
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Hello Folks,Thanks for the info. I think Shindra's in the PGW but I could be wrong and I don't have it on me. Double thanks for the alignment ideas. I don't usually use alignmens in play, but do find...
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I touched on it briefly in the bit about Tama Hama -- when Sword & Sorcery first appeared, it was generally out of middle-American sensibilities, which have a very Puritan view on sex in general,...
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Come now, Belit was not evil and vile. Evil maybe....You are correct in that most of the others were easilly seduced daft trollops
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True, Belit may not have been all that vile, but she was Evil with a capital "E." Remember she was the most dreaded pirate captain of the Western Ocean in her day... she and her men slaughtered...
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Hello Folks,I see your point James, and see where such conclusions could be reached. S&S has changed though. Glen Cook's "Black Company" series or the "Thieve's World" anthologies are quite...
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"In the Wilderlands there is slavery, human sacrifice, prostitution, war, mutilation, serfdom and other really unpleasent things"We are about 6 months into our Wilderlands campaign and I think the...
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Howdy,Yeup, Howard seemed to actually had a great grasp on how ancient religion really worked (however it happened). You appealled to the gods to ignore you, bless you, or give you something you...
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Sounds like you could run an excllent Oriental type campaign as well.
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Hello Folks,I don't know about that but I'm flattered. There are important differences between the Western version of "shame-based" ethics and the Japanese/Eastern style. I'm easily able to use the...
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