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Wooly Rupert
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 Posted - 08 May 2004 : 19:24:57
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Originally posted by Sarta
I guess I'm a traditionalist. When I run games, Mystra has chosen and no other deities do. Occasionally mortals are favored by their gods and given advantages, but nothing which truly equates with Mystra's chosen.
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I agree with this sentiment. After reading about the intent of the Chosen of Mystra, I just can't see other deities having champions that are comparable. I can envision other deities having Champions -- someone who's just a bit more than mortal, but not on the same scale as a Chosen of Mystra.
Wood Elf Ranger, as much as I hate to refer someone back to there, I do recall a thread on the WotC forums that existed for people to make their own Chosen of other deities. Though I've not visited the boards since I was chased away, I'd imagine that that thread is still active. |
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Wood Elf Ranger
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Posted - 08 May 2004 : 19:30:58
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I've never had a WOTC Forum account and I don't plan on making one But I suppose I could wander over there for a moment and most likely get hopelessly lost looking for aforementioned scroll  |
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Wooly Rupert
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Posted - 08 May 2004 : 19:38:10
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Originally posted by Wood Elf Ranger
I've never had a WOTC Forum account and I don't plan on making one But I suppose I could wander over there for a moment and most likely get hopelessly lost looking for aforementioned scroll
Here's the link to that thread:
http://boards1.wizards.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=176507
I can't attest to the quality of any of the Chosen on that thread. Even when I was active over there, I avoided that thread because of my aforementioned opinions on Chosen of other deities. |
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Wood Elf Ranger
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Posted - 08 May 2004 : 19:49:18
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Thank you Wooly  I was dreading slludging through topics to find this one. Hmm some interesting ideas but I think I would rather make up my own with my own imagination  Perhaps using some of theirs for ideas.
I do agree with you and everyone else though there should not be any Chosen as powerful or as numerous as Mystras. |
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Artalis
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Posted - 08 May 2004 : 20:03:10
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In the campaign I run there is a single Chosen for each deity.
One refers to the faithful of a diety by the phrase "a chosen of" or "among the chosen" because they were called to serve that god/goddess. But each diety only has one "Chosen" and it's a whole other thing altogether.
For instance Nighteyes is The Chosen of Hanali Celanil in my campaign. There's a bit of nepotism going on there however...
Several of the characters in the campaign are AMONG the chosen however, being priestesses of that faith.
And Nighteyes isn't even a priest. |
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Wood Elf Ranger
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Posted - 08 May 2004 : 20:11:37
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| Very interesting, I like your idea Artalis. I'm curious are your Chosen NPC's or are they your PC's? Would one of your players ever get the chance to become a Chosen? |
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Artalis
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Posted - 08 May 2004 : 20:28:37
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Originally posted by Wood Elf Ranger
Very interesting, I like your idea Artalis. I'm curious are your Chosen NPC's or are they your PC's? Would one of your players ever get the chance to become a Chosen?
Anyone is eligable but there has to be an extremely good reason for it. Hanali has very long reaching plans in my campaign and the events that are taking place now are the results of many centuries of careful work on the part of her agents.
Hanali actually took a page from Mystra's book though in Nighteye's case. There's a thread in here somewhere called "A tale of Loss..." that explains the chain of events but I'm too lazy to hunt it down and link it. |
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Wood Elf Ranger
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Posted - 08 May 2004 : 21:29:53
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Sounds like fun 
I am off to find the aforementioned scroll
Shh keep this on the down-low my friend, but I've been tossing around the idea of running a campaign where the players eventually become Chosen of their respective deities. After completing many specific faith related quests and passing certain tests and most likely becoming epic characters along the way... Of course this wont happen for a while either, at least until after I've played a few campaigns and have gotten an idea of what it might be like to DM one. |
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Creating A Chosen
