Standard Monsters Non Standard Gods

ArmOrAttAk · Post by **ArmOrAttAk** » Fri Jan 11, 2008 5:40 pm

My apologies in advance to whomever thought up these gods.

They're terrible. I couldn't find one that my warrior character wanted to worship. The options are slim and frankly most of them suck. He would up going undead for lack of a better choice.

I can't see why you would include ordinary monsters that everyone is familiar with then flip to making dieties from imagination.

I'm thinking Greek, Egyptian, Norse, etc. People are already familiar with them (like most of the monsters).

Website · Post by **Leaf** » Fri Jan 11, 2008 6:53 pm

Pick one or a couple of the gods you mention and "convert" their abilities to the "crossfire universe." (Preferable in a format that is found in the current Crossfire Pantheon)

I'm curious to see what you come up.

http://crossfire.real-time.com/guides/h ... theon.html

poof · Post by **poof** » Fri Jan 11, 2008 9:50 pm

Crossfire's "Big World" is not Earth. It is in a different universe where there are different deities. Makes sense they would not have the same names. Frankly, I think the monsters should be different too. But since crossfire borrows on a long tradition of fantasy MORPG monsters keeping them as is works for me. Apparently the deities in this different universe are not original thinkers and so borrowed from the races of our universe.

ArmOrAttAk · Post by **ArmOrAttAk** » Sat Jan 12, 2008 10:15 pm

Leaf wrote:Pick one or a couple of the gods you mention and "convert" their abilities to the "crossfire universe." (Preferable in a format that is found in the current Crossfire Pantheon)

I'd like to, but first I want to play the game enough so that i'm familiar enough to do the task right.

mwedel · Post by **mwedel** » Sun Jan 13, 2008 6:01 am

Not that this is really any defense, but when AD&D came out with their revised rules, they basically came up with a new set of gods not really based on Earth ones.

It would seem if you're really playing a straight fighter, Valkyrie could be a good god - resistance to magic, but unable to use spells. But not using spells isn't much a problem if a fighter.

Website · Post by **Leaf** » Sun Jan 13, 2008 6:15 am

mwedel wrote:Not that this is really any defense, but when AD&D came out with their revised rules, they basically came up with a new set of gods not really based on Earth ones.

Some might say they did that to sell yet another book.

Others feel it made creating a pantheon more simple - all creative decisions couldn't be compared to who knows how many already written sources and debated|disputed endlessly.

(This was hearsay overheard at game store in Lake Geneva WI about 5 years ago.)

mwedel · Post by **mwedel** » Mon Jan 14, 2008 6:54 am

But some of those same points may apply to crossfire.

If you try to take a Greek god and convert it to a crossfire god, there may be varying opinions on what powers and drawbacks it should have.

There are also certain benefits it may be desirable to grant within crossfire (based on how the game works), but with which the standard definition of Greek gods may not really provide any clear input.