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Link to "Panakos: The Castaway Campaign" on d20pfsrd.com
tl;dr summary:
All old world religions and mythologies (norse/egypt/greek/etc) transplanted into individual island chains, each of which acts like a zone boundary that prevents teleportation/scrying/etc, so the occupants must sail from chain to chain. And there's pirates.
It was built to support easy GM rotation and compartmentalized adventuring in different settings, leaning on real world myth as the back-story.
(the region write-ups aren't quite complete yet, should be soon)
I glanced at it, but it didn't seem relevant. We'd already set up a stand alone website with all the campaign info on it, but in the end it made more sense to us (and was cheaper) to stick it up on d20pfsrd. We spend the whole game session on d20pfsrd anyway.
Basic question... What happens when clerics of one pantheon make a boat trip to an island group dominated by a different one? Why don't the Pantheons go to war in order to claim influence on other islands?
This is exactly the sort of question I was hoping for in the thread, since a lot of this is commonly accepted knowledge in the playtest groups and might not be clear in the write-up.
Spells still work. Gods are bound to their domains by belief. Pantheons could conceivably go to war, but to do so they would have to replace all the believers in another region with their own followers.
We haven't fully fleshed out the details about how Gates work though. Certain areas in the regions have permanent gates to the underworld in them (think River Styx) that only lead to the particular underworld associated with that realm. Similarly, Mt. Olympos, for instance, is there on the map, and you can go there, but climbing to the top constitutes traveling through a gate.
So then that brings up the issue of demon/devil summoning, and which underworld the critter comes from. None of our player/developers have stepped up to plug that hole in the mechanic yet, although I expect we'll get that detail ironed out in the next month. (suggestions welcome)
Raiden? He's that guy who looks like the Highlander, right? :)
Nice catch. :) If you're sharp on your Old TSR Book Lore, you might be able to tell that many of the pantheons and gods were yoinked from the old 1980s Deities and Demigods book, which seriously lacks historical accuracy. Some of the pantheons have been cleaned up since, but others haven't. The campaign has been a work in progress since about 2006-ish.