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| lummoxybez |
Posted - 05 Oct 2008 : 10:23:02
The FR campaign guide (3rd ed) states that no two powers in the same pantheon may have the same portfolio, yet I can see several examples of duplicated portfolios in the Faerunian pantheon list.
Is this simply an error on behalf of the writers or is it deliberate?
I wondered whether there was an element of shared-portfolios as a result of the Time of Troubles or not.
Also, did the non-Faerunian pantheons also suffer in the ToT? Was there an avatar of Lloth running around somewhere, or Blibdoolpoolp holding court in a ruined undersea temple? |
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| Lord Karsus |
Posted - 09 Oct 2008 : 18:16:40
-I'll get it one of these days, just you wait... |
| The Sage |
Posted - 09 Oct 2008 : 00:28:26
You only missed the quotation marks around the actual URL. Everything else was right.  |
| Lord Karsus |
Posted - 08 Oct 2008 : 22:32:45
-Why can I never get the linking right...?
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| The Sage |
Posted - 08 Oct 2008 : 05:10:03
Thanks. At least now I can start comparing this to my own partial listings of portfolio-related details. |
| Lord Karsus |
Posted - 08 Oct 2008 : 04:31:20
-In that case, HERE it is. And they say I don't live to serve...
Mod Edit: Fixed the URL. |
| The Sage |
Posted - 08 Oct 2008 : 01:10:52
quote:
Originally posted by Kuje
I'd like to see that again, I've been working on some ideas for some pantheons, etc, and it might give me some thoughts.
quote:
Originally posted by Dagnirion
-I have a large list of Portfolios that have not been claimed, if anyone wants to see.
I wouldn't mind seeing this list also, Dagnirion. |
| Kuje |
Posted - 07 Oct 2008 : 21:04:18
I'd like to see that again, I've been working on some ideas for some pantheons, etc, and it might give me some thoughts.
quote:
Originally posted by Dagnirion
-I have a large list of Portfolios that have not been claimed, if anyone wants to see.
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| Lord Karsus |
Posted - 07 Oct 2008 : 20:00:49
-I have a large list of Portfolios that have not been claimed, if anyone wants to see. |
| lummoxybez |
Posted - 05 Oct 2008 : 15:28:34
Ah, I see.
Thanks for the help, and also for the link to the books site. |
| Faraer |
Posted - 05 Oct 2008 : 15:06:49
There, it's the FRCS's comment about no two gods having the same portfolio that's an oversimplification. As discussed in Faiths & Avatars, there can be one primary god of something in a pantheon and theoretically any number of demigods. In this case, Tempus is thought to have fought Garagos and taken the status of primary war god of Faerūn, reducing Garagos to demigod rank. |
| lummoxybez |
Posted - 05 Oct 2008 : 14:48:22
Well a specific case (from the top of my head as I'm at work) would be that of Garagos and Tempus both having ownership of the portfolio of War. |
| Faraer |
Posted - 05 Oct 2008 : 14:25:49
Much of what you're seeing is an artefact of oversimplifying the nature of divine beings into half-dozen-word summaries. Also, lesser/subsidiary gods of divine groupings often likewise preside over particular aspects of larger areas. But we'd need to look at specific cases.
Yes, they were also sent down, see Tom Costa's accounting by copying and pasting this URL: http://web.archive.org/web/20060101225331/http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=books/fr/deitytrouble |
