i figured i would shoot this past you before i wrote up a Dragon mag article submission query thingie. i found this bit recently in the old 1E D&DG, and it made me think there might be something to explore there:
"Bugbears have a simple pantheon of six deities, including gods of earth, death, fertility, hunting and fear. Hruggek, the god of battle, is the most powerful and important, though he doesn't rule the others."
now some of those have been written up subsequently (Monstrous Mythology, 2E), but at least 2 or 3 of them to the best of my knowledge are still unwritten. the question is, would you be receptive to a 3.5 writeup of this pantheon? if so, would it be best to be in Complete Divine format or in the new D&DG format?
I am not a Paizo staffer but I would go ahead and submit your idea, BOZ. It sounds pretty cool! You may want to think of a way to make it more interesting to players and adaptable to all kinds of games before you submit, though. The Dragon guys love that kind of stuff.
What I mean is, an article on the bugbear pantheon probably won't be useful to your average gamer. Not a lot of people play bugbears and non-bugbear PCs probably won't worship bugbear deities. So you could take a different slant on it. Perhaps give a brief description of each deity and then list some 'special powers' (i.e. feats) they have bestowed on their followers that have since been picked up by other races? Or you could follow each description with new cleric spells that deity grants that have been stolen by other deities.
You could even do an "Ecology of the Bugbear" that talks about how the worship of the six gods influences bugbear development and society.
Good luck with your proposal!
-Amber Scott
thanks for the kind responses. :)
does anyone know what to do if paizo doesn't respond at all? i sent this proposal in a few weeks ago, but never heard anything back. i also sent a second e-mail inquiring about the status of the query, and got no response to that either.
I suggest waiting another two weeks. Paizo is super busy right now as everyone tries to finish everything before the holidays. It's really crunch time over there and responses are somewhat slow. :-)
didn't even think of that. :) oh well, no hurry i guess.
The submission idea sounds pretty cool and i agree that you should present newer angles one that i thought might be cool is if you linked the followers of each deity with a quasi prestige class like the old specialty priest from 2nd ed. ad&d, or added adventure hooks to ie: a pc that was orphaned and raised by bugbears or some such... could be cool...
Here, here! More goblinoids, please! I certainly wouldn't mind a series of goblinoid articles. Goblins, hobgoblins, barghests and bugbears don't get nearly enough attention (other than "78-83 on random encounter table"). Maybe for the article you should include some bugbear-oriented feats and items that could be universally adopted?