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Special Episode: Small gods (Patreon)

Published:
2021-03-25 23:57:16
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2023-12
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Patreon backer William brings you this special episode all about what happens when the cleric who turns up for the adventure serves one of the less imposing deities.

Thanks to Ray Otus for our thumbnail image. The intro music is a clip from "Solve the Damn Mystery" by Jesse Spillane, used under a Creative Commons Attribution License.

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Steve

The Greek and especially Roman gods were often associated with a local deity like Sulis Minerva for the version of her worshipped in Bath. Minerva seems to tap into something much larger than the spirit of local warm spring. And Magna Mater started our very differently as a local Anatolian cult before travelling west and becoming the miracle of Rome's victory over Carthage as represented by a black meteor which they lugged over from Phrygia. A local priest of Cybele might be very surprised, arriving in Rome, to be invited to all the best orgies. Shame about his lack of equipment.

monsterman
>>56425079

Yeah, there's probably a whole Patron Deities in that kind of syncretism. I guess we're seeing some of that in the Japanese series right now, actually.

Anonymous

Listening to this episode now, and I'll forget my thought if I don't add it (so you may cover it in the episode at a point I haven't reached yet). You're discussing that a goddess has perhaps an older portfolio that is there to be discovered. I think a swords to plowshares (in reverse) approach could work especially in a campaign where a long peace is being upset. The agriculture God may have once been a war God when the people were nomadic or when the great dark evil still roamed the land, but once peace and settlement were a thing for long enough... What're we gonna do with all these surplus swords is a problem for the gods too... So war God Mcgee turns into sowing and planting God Mcgee... But now the Great evil is back and you know the God does have one sword still hanging on their mantle from the old days. Queue scene were God pulls the sword down from the hearth and that one cleric (the pc cleric of course) suddenly finds themself with a whole host of war cleric abilities.

monsterman
>>86764220

The weird thing is that this comment turned up on my notifications with just the first part showing. So it said that you were worried about forgetting the point, and then it just ended! I like the idea of discovering an older aspect of a deity. I actually did that in my Heroquest game -- the PCs discovered a secret shrine to an unknown aspect of Orlanth from the days when the god's worship was suppressed -- the "Hidden Orlanth" or "Orlanth the Rebel." It was intended to come in handy in the future, but the game faded away and I never got around to that bit.