I want to know what folks think about the deities in the Pathfinder setting.
any predictions about how the mag will treat them?
personally, I like the idea of not having racial deities, and not having specific alignments for them. The ones in Burnt Offerings were interesting, especially that they didn't fit any of the traditional stereotypes for deity roles (ie: undead slayer, magic user, warrior, sneaky type; LG dude, evil patron guy, elves, dwarves, etc.). Granted, I'd like a good-guy religion so I can fit in celestials, or something like that, but it is a nice change from standard format figures. More of a range for followers (like one for slaves who's patron of strength, and followers include giants, slaves, blacksmiths, whoever, but isn't Ye Giant patron; or ye goblin patron).
sort of a Mythos dynamic going on: you've got the human-type ones, or the "elder" whatevers. Then you've got these monstrous things out there like Lamashtu, who can be villains.
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I've got some predictions! :)
Starting with Pathfinder 2, we'll be doing Core Beliefs style articles on each of our deities; Sean K Reynolds is writing them, too! The first one up will be Desna, who gets about 10 pages or so of details ranging from her history, how her faithful worship her, sample allies, a prestige class, and more. We'll be focusing on the 20 deities from the player's guide first, and doing about 4 a year, so it'll take us 5 years to do them all up in this manner (unless we go crazy and finish them all off at once a few years down the road in a big book or something).
Woo! replies from the author! (well, one of; still good)
I found the player's guide, which had the alignments and a more-full list of deities. oh well, still good.
I did indeed see the Desna advert.
I'm wondering, tho: are Lamashtu and the other darker ones (I saw asmodeus)... well, are we talking Vecna and Cyric/Bane, or are we talking Orcus and Demogorgon? Like, are they especially powerful "old ones" that the more personable powers cast out; or are they the same sort of beastie who just happens to be of a different alignment?
personally I'd prefer having there be a difference: think olympus and the titans, or lovecraft's mythos having Cthulu et al. contrasted with the elder sign types (who safeguard what's known as reality from these beings of chaos and madness). That dichotomy makes more sense regardless of who the "natural order guys are" than having undead and abberations as part of the life cycle. How can you have "unnatural beings" as part of the natural order of the universe? it's silly.
Granted, you can have weird "normals"; that peacock spirit is abstract, which is cool.
It makes sense for the setting from what I've seen in Burnt Offerings:
whatever it is, it'll be great fun. looking forward to it!!!
I want to know what folks think about the deities in the Pathfinder setting.
It took me a while to get into the swing of the new pantheon, which originally just struck me as another bunch of names and not too different from the deities of the core rules.
But I think the hurdle I had to overcome is that they're not actually a pantheon. It sounds like any significantly powerful being from the "outer planes" is capable of granting some amount of divine power to their worshippers. Anything from minor devils to powerful gods can grant these spells.
In theory, that means there's an infinite number of beings who could be worshipped and I'm willing to assume the seven deities worshipped in Sandpoint are just the ones who happened to be worshipped there.