One Bad Egg has “open sourced” a pantheon for use in 4e games. Why? In their words:
The GSL doesn’t let you refer to any of the gods from the DUNGEONS & DRAGONS 4TH EDITION PLAYER’S HANDBOOK by name and, by extension, any of the feats or powers containing their names. This can be a real pain in the butt if you’re looking to create a new player race that’s excellent for building paladins or clerics or whatnot and you want to talk about sample characters and what gods they worship. But if you accept this license, you’ll be able to do that with our gods, no problem.
It’s great that they do this, and their licensing terms seem totally fair, encouraging all the right sort of collaboration.
Definitely take a look for yourself, but here are my favorites:
- The Bone Witch, goddess of burial, strength, suffering, and summoning.
- The Rider, god of persuasion,possession, release and subjugation.
- The Voracious Host, god of fertility,gluttony, greed, harvest, and hoarding.
Definitely expect some of the work in At-Will to play around with this pantheon. It’s mythic with a touch of Lovecraftian creep around the edges.
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What a great idea. I’m really surprised it took this long for someone to come up with this idea.
Good Stuff. I get the sense that One Bad Egg is just starting to roll. They have good stuff now, and I expect them to continually get better.
Thanks for the mention!
We are currently working on The Forest of White Sky, the creepy Shroud-twisted woodlands that was the home of the Apelords. The product ties into at least one of these deities and details a handful of encounters that feel more like a “module” than previous OBE products.
If I get my ass moving on the edits, we might release it in early April.
I wrote the Torchbearer and the Umbral Claw, who are apparently no one’s favorites, sadly. <=)
Hello all!
@Ameron Yeah, it’s a great idea, and am looking forward to make some use of it in my campaigns.
@The Last Rogue. Oh yeah they are. Expect me to do some more coverage of their stuff in the future.
@Adam thanks for stopping by! (And also, thank you guys for your mention a few weeks ago!) I’ll be looking forward to the release of Forest of White Sky, definitely. One thing to understand though is I think the whole pantheon is cool! The ones I mentioned just jumped out at me. Keep up the good work at OBE!
I wouldn’t use any of them, but I like some of the feel of it. And it certainly is useful to module publishers and such. My hope is that we will still get other original gods and pantheons rather than just an endless stream of tie-ins.
I’m really pleased we were able to share this pantheon with other designers and developers. I wrote the Rider, the Salt Prince, and the Silent Maw. I think the pantheon’s really kind of different without actually leaving any major “portfolio” unclaimed. It will be fun to see what others use them for!
Wouldn’t it have made sense to wait until after divine power so there were rules for domain bonuses (or spells or what ever wotc is doing with them)?