Okay, out of all the gods in the setting of Pathfinder, none match what a PC of mine wants. She asked if she could worship a god of her own making. I told her I'd think about it and tell her next session (so long as she spent this session making up the god's details). Here is just a tiny tidbit of what she gave me:
Deity Name: Brunarra
Alignment: NG
Areas of Concern: Dancing, Fertility, Marriage, Innocence, Records
Domains: Charm, Community, Good, Healing, Knowledge
Favored Weapon: Light Mace
I don't have time to list all the stuff she worked on to give to me but suffused to say, I'm kinda impressed. I'm kinda torn between letting her and not letting her. Her PC would be a female dwarf cleric who worships this god. My question is this a good idea to let happen? Am I setting a president with my players that will come back to haunt me?
records and knowledge do not seem to fit, other then that it looks good. She may be trying to just get all the domains she wants...check them
Edit, Pathfinder gods seem limited to 4 portfolios and 5 domains,
I could see it going like this
Deity Name: Brunarra
Alignment: NG
Areas of Concern: Dancing, Fertility, Marriage, Innocence,
Domains: Charm, Community, Good, Healing,
Favored Weapon: bladed sash
I do not see them using a mace, they are clerics of a free spirited god, a god of dance, I see, dagger, a common tool, or a bladed sash, or whip being more dance like weapons
Myself I would say bladed sash as I can see her clerics being dancers as well, and I can just see whrilling sashes as a preferred combat style to the goddes...maybe thats just me
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Hmmm...5 Domains...you only gave her 4 of them I see. Since she's a free spirited god, perhaps I should enforce her to be Chaotic Good and have the Chaos domain. Does that make sense?
myself I would go with air or liberation as dance is part of her portfolio
So no alignment change then?
Okay, this is what I've got so far:
Look good?
Deity Name: Brunarra
Alignment: CG
Areas of Concern: Celebration, Fertility, Marriage, Innocence
Domains: Charm, Community, Good, Healing, Liberation
Favored Weapon: Bladed Sash
Looks good but she does not have to be CG, all in just how much a free spirit, NG or CG both work
Dwarven diety - not sure how well known they are for using a scarf as opposed to the light mace (aka fancy beat stick aka ...).
YMMV
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I see no particular problem with allowing that new deity.
If you're particularly concerned about precedent or preserving setting canon, I'd recommend you look at Folgrit, dwarven goddess of mothers, children, and the hearth, wife of Torag. Her domains are Community, Law, Nobility, and Good. She's lawful good, and her favored weapon is the quarterstaff. She's not exactly what your player seems to be looking for, but I thought I'd point her out since she seems somewhat close and wasn't in the core campaign setting book.
Humm he never said a drawf god, just that the pc was a drawf.
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records and knowledge do not seem to fit, other then that it looks good. She may be trying to just get all the domains she wants...check them
Edit, Pathfinder gods seem limited to 4 portfolios and 5 domains,
I could see it going like this
Deity Name: Brunarra
Alignment: NG
Areas of Concern: Dancing, Fertility, Marriage, Innocence,
Domains: Charm, Community, Good, Healing,
Favored Weapon: bladed sashI do not see them using a mace, they are clerics of a free spirited god, a god of dance, I see, dagger, a common tool, or a bladed sash, or whip being more dance like weapons
Myself I would say bladed sash as I can see her clerics being dancers as well, and I can just see whrilling sashes as a preferred combat style to the goddes...maybe thats just me
actually depending upon the nature of the god, it would fit just fine. For example IF this deity was a dwarven god, one of the dwarf mothers, records and knowledge work fine, as she is the goddess of the history of the clans, celebration and fertility... also then the mace would work as well. I think this really depends upon the backstory of the deity.
Based upon what we know, I would go for it as written. Check the backstory to see if it explains Records and Knowledge. If so... sounds like a winner to me.
BTW an alternative explanation could be another minor goddess from Aroden's pantheon... again keeper of the history, celebration and fertility... again can have a mace... alignment may work better with this version...
now I admit I like the bladed sash a lot in each variation... mainly because it IS different, and does embrace the innocent celebration idea... also feels a little more Golarion to me... but maybe that's just me! lol
Okay, out of all the gods in the setting of Pathfinder, none match what a PC of mine wants. She asked if she could worship a god of her own making. I told her I'd think about it and tell her next session (so long as she spent this session making up the god's details). Here is just a tiny tidbit of what she gave me:
Deity Name: Brunarra
Alignment: NG
Areas of Concern: Dancing, Fertility, Marriage, Innocence, Records
Domains: Charm, Community, Good, Healing, Knowledge
Favored Weapon: Light MaceI don't have time to list all the stuff she worked on to give to me but suffused to say, I'm kinda impressed. I'm kinda torn between letting her and not letting her. Her PC would be a female dwarf cleric who worships this god. My question is this a good idea to let happen? Am I setting a president with my players that will come back to haunt me?
I think the goddess as written up sounds like the dwarven goddess of Jane Austen novels, at least with those areas of concern. Which is to say, they all fit together.
The bladed sash could work as an alternate weapon, and might fit better. Personally, I'd give her spiked clogs and let her dance her opponents to death, but that may just be me.
Give her a chariot drawn by ground squirrels and a story of an affair with some other god and you're good to go.
First I'd be happy to have players who are so willing to get immersed in the campaign. I'd lean toward letting her go with this idea as is. However, I'd like to know more about the god's backstory too.
If I were presented with the "god of destruction, healing, fire, water, sky, and all things that will wreck the campaign", then I'd probably feel otherwise.
Many years ago, I did allow a custom god (a patron god of half-elves), and it added a lot to the campaign, especially for that player.
First I'd be happy to have players who are so willing to get immersed in the campaign. I'd lean toward letting her go with this idea as is. However, I'd like to know more about the god's backstory too.
If I were presented with the "god of destruction, healing, fire, water, sky, and all things that will wreck the campaign", then I'd probably feel otherwise.
Many years ago, I did allow a custom god (a patron god of half-elves), and it added a lot to the campaign, especially for that player.
Quoted for emphasis.
The major problem I have ever seen in any game is a cleric who doesn't give to coppers what his god actually is or does only that they give them cool powers. So any player who can come up with an impressive layout for a god should be encouraged and allowed to pursue their new deity. However, like it was said earlier, if it seems like it is all an attempt to make ubergod of destroy everything then I'd nix it. On the surface with what you posted it seems like she is really interested in rping this cleric.
Agreed - I'm rather overly stingy when it comes to this sort of thing, and I'd go full steam ahead with this one. Tell her nice job!
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Just one question of logic, it seems that community and marriage are not the pursuits of a chaotic god. Once you add in the bit about records, then it feels even more like a lawful god.
So it really feels like an aspect of the Dwarven Mother goddess one character quoted above.
Which is fine, many goddess have many faces for their different worshipers, so maybe this is "Daughter" facet of the Daughter/Mother/Crone triad?
In which the Daughter is the free spirit, the mother the care taker, and the crone is the matriarch and keeper of order. In which case she should be a NG goddess to reflect the balance?