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Dargoth
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 Posted - 03 Jan 2005 : 06:56:09
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He listed as one of the dead gods in the Lost Empires of Faerun contents but I dont believe Ive heard of him (Im assuming hes a Monster god or one of Mulhorand/Unther gods?)
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DDH_101
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Posted - 03 Jan 2005 : 07:33:14
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Dargoth, I found this quote in another topic here at Candlekeep.
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Try Auppenser for a human god of psionics (alignment neutral, domains Balance, Mentalism, Protection, Strength). He's a dead deity, but he was big back in the days of Jhaamdath, which was a realm heavily influenced by psionics. You guys will get to meet him in an upcoming Realms product.
Here's the link:
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Dargoth
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Posted - 03 Jan 2005 : 07:43:45
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I swear George is the biggest bloody tease!
Intersting that there going to detail a god devoted to Psionics (even if he is dead) |
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Wooly Rupert
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Posted - 03 Jan 2005 : 11:19:22
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Originally posted by Dargoth
I swear George is the biggest bloody tease!
Intersting that there going to detail a god devoted to Psionics (even if he is dead)
I'm curious as to how a god dies and no one grabs his portfolio...  |
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Dargoth
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Posted - 03 Jan 2005 : 11:51:22
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Originally posted by Wooly Rupert
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Originally posted by Dargoth
I swear George is the biggest bloody tease!
Intersting that there going to detail a god devoted to Psionics (even if he is dead)
I'm curious as to how a god dies and no one grabs his portfolio...
I figure a certain Mind Flayer deity might have grabbed it |
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warlockco
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Posted - 03 Jan 2005 : 14:54:08
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Originally posted by Wooly Rupert
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Originally posted by Dargoth
I swear George is the biggest bloody tease!
Intersting that there going to detail a god devoted to Psionics (even if he is dead)
I'm curious as to how a god dies and no one grabs his portfolio...
Maybe, Lord Ao saw no need to fill that vacancy at the time? |
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DDH_101
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Posted - 03 Jan 2005 : 17:30:31
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| Or perhaps the portfolio has been taken, but it's been covered up by some shadowy god... Oh, the intrigue. |
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Wooly Rupert
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Posted - 03 Jan 2005 : 23:18:51
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Originally posted by Dargoth
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Originally posted by Wooly Rupert
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Originally posted by Dargoth
I swear George is the biggest bloody tease!
Intersting that there going to detail a god devoted to Psionics (even if he is dead)
I'm curious as to how a god dies and no one grabs his portfolio...
I figure a certain Mind Flayer deity might have grabbed it
I dunno... It's certainly a possibility, but I don't see an illithid deity grabbing a portfolio from a human deity... |
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George Krashos
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Posted - 04 Jan 2005 : 00:39:55
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I would postulate that following the fall of Jhaamdath, the idea that the "Invisible Art" was a deific gift or supported by a deity fell by the wayside. Proper psionicists and those with a wild talent or two worshipped other gods and didn't make a link between their powers and their faith. In other words, if I was a farmer with a wild talent I worshipped Chauntea, not Auppenser. If I was an adventuring psionicist, I worshipped Tymora, or Tempus or Mystra or ... well, you get the idea. No other god picked up the portfolio because it wasn't worth it. No-one was 'worshipping' in terms of their psionic use. Of course, YMMV.
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The Sage
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Posted - 05 Jan 2005 : 06:59:07
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Originally posted by Wooly Rupert
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Originally posted by Dargoth
I swear George is the biggest bloody tease!
Intersting that there going to detail a god devoted to Psionics (even if he is dead)
I'm curious as to how a god dies and no one grabs his portfolio...
I think that would really depend on the circumstances of the particular god's death, and whether or not the supposed head of the pantheon has tight control on the allocation and selection of who holds what portfolio. Some portfolios and domains likely float through the seams holding the tapestry of the planar tree together... laying unclaimed and unsed for hundreds... even thousands of years. Ao seems to be the type of creator god who would have the final "say so" on who gets what and who can do what with which portfolio. So these unclaimed domains are probably remnants of fallen or dead gods who passed from this cosmology long ago...
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Lina
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Posted - 09 Jan 2005 : 10:02:20
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Originally posted by DDH_101
Or perhaps the portfolio has been taken, but it's been covered up by some shadowy god... Oh, the intrigue.
Sounds like the work of Mask.  |
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Lady Kazandra
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Posted - 09 Jan 2005 : 10:49:27
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Ao seems to be the type of creator god who would have the final "say so" on who gets what and who can do what with which portfolio.
Are you talking about deities specifically, or any being of considerable might and power . . . say, with DvR 0? Because if that's the case, then I don't agree. How does that explain everything that has happened with Orcus?
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Dargoth
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Posted - 13 Feb 2005 : 01:02:27
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| So I take it Lost Empires of Faerun is the only reference to Auppenser? |
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Dargoth
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Posted - 14 Feb 2005 : 07:59:28
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George Krashos
Master of Realmslore
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Posted - 14 Feb 2005 : 11:35:49
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Originally posted by Dargoth
So I take it Lost Empires of Faerun is the only reference to Auppenser?
Only reference so far. He was created for the newly 'sexed up' Jhaamdath (personally, I like the psionicist angle). As for his specialty priests, hmmm no idea. Mindlords?
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Dargoth
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Posted - 14 Feb 2005 : 12:22:58
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Originally posted by George Krashos
Only reference so far. He was created for the newly 'sexed up' Jhaamdath (personally, I like the psionicist angle). As for his specialty priests, hmmm no idea. Mindlords?
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Me to
LEOF has inspired a few ideas
My idea
The 4 Elven High mages who caused the tidal wave in Jhaamdath where an informal forunner to the Eldreth Veluuthra in fact the 4 High Mages where the origional founders of Elderth Veluuthra after humans where allowed into Myth Drannor. One of the 4 High Mages who destroyed Jhaamdath was Tordynnar Rhaevaern the NE Sun Elf Baelnorn from Lords of Darkness.
After Jhaamdaths destruction the surviors spread out to found other lands such Chondath and Implitur, and while none of Jhaamdaths refugees have any love for elves, some took it further a secret society Psionic wielding Jhaamdathians with a hatred for elves. This societies goal is to hurt the elves as much as possable. The society eventually left Jhaamdath for a new Chondathian colony which would one day become the nation of Sembia. Today the society counts members in most of the important noble houses of Sembia.
Thats all Ive got so far
Ive got an idea for a Psionic Cleric Prc for a Followers of Auppenser which melds one of the existing Psionic Prcs and alter it so intead of gain Psionic powers every level they get it every 2 levels, every other level they recieve a "+1 to Divine caster level"
Another idea might be to come up with a Prc that bridges the Psionic class/Cleric divide the same the way the Mystic Theurge Prc bridges the Wizard/cleric divide
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Dargoth
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Posted - 14 Feb 2005 : 12:28:19
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Ohhh Ohhh Ohhh! Someones done the work for me!
Does this not scream a Prc for Cleric of Auppenser my fellow scribes?
http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/psm/20040925b
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Lysander
Learned Scribe
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Posted - 14 Feb 2005 : 17:56:20
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Originally posted by Wooly Rupert
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Originally posted by Dargoth
I swear George is the biggest bloody tease!
Intersting that there going to detail a god devoted to Psionics (even if he is dead)
I'm curious as to how a god dies and no one grabs his portfolio...
Maybe he's just kicking up on his back, pining for the fjords?  |
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Reefy
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Posted - 14 Feb 2005 : 20:38:37
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Originally posted by Lysander
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Originally posted by Wooly Rupert
I'm curious as to how a god dies and no one grabs his portfolio...
Maybe he's just kicking up on his back, pining for the fjords?
Maybe he's not dead - he's just resting. |
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Kentinal
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Posted - 14 Feb 2005 : 20:49:34
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Originally posted by Dargoth
Ohhh Ohhh Ohhh! Someones done the work for me!
Does this not scream a Prc for Cleric of Auppenser my fellow scribes?
http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/psm/20040925b
Looks a little more powerful then what you first was planning. It certainly can work, though I do worry about increase both psionic and divine ability each level as powerful (perhaps too powerful). |
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Wooly Rupert
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Posted - 14 Feb 2005 : 22:37:17
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Originally posted by Reefy
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Originally posted by Lysander
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Originally posted by Wooly Rupert
I'm curious as to how a god dies and no one grabs his portfolio...
Maybe he's just kicking up on his back, pining for the fjords?
Maybe he's not dead - he's just resting.
Either way, he's got beautiful plumage. |
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Dargoth
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Posted - 14 Feb 2005 : 22:57:41
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Originally posted by Kentinal
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Originally posted by Dargoth
Ohhh Ohhh Ohhh! Someones done the work for me!
Does this not scream a Prc for Cleric of Auppenser my fellow scribes?
http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/psm/20040925b
Looks a little more powerful then what you first was planning. It certainly can work, though I do worry about increase both psionic and divine ability each level as powerful (perhaps too powerful).
Yeah but it looks like Wotc are "powering up 3ed" this is the third Class were theyve done where you get +1 Caster level in 2 class each level of the Prc
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Gray Richardson
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Posted - 15 Feb 2005 : 01:16:03
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Originally posted by Wooly Rupert
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Originally posted by Reefy
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Originally posted by Lysander
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Originally posted by Wooly Rupert
I'm curious as to how a god dies and no one grabs his portfolio...
Maybe he's just kicking up on his back, pining for the fjords?
Maybe he's not dead - he's just resting.
Either way, he's got beautiful plumage.
I believe you are thinking of Jazirian. |
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Kuje
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Posted - 15 Feb 2005 : 02:25:22
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Originally posted by Wooly Rupert
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Originally posted by Reefy
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Originally posted by Lysander
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Originally posted by Wooly Rupert
I'm curious as to how a god dies and no one grabs his portfolio...
Maybe he's just kicking up on his back, pining for the fjords?
Maybe he's not dead - he's just resting.
Either way, he's got beautiful plumage.
I believe you are thinking of Jazirian.
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Lysander
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Posted - 15 Feb 2005 : 04:07:13
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Originally posted by kuje31
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Originally posted by Lysander
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Originally posted by Wooly Rupert
I'm curious as to how a god dies and no one grabs his portfolio...
Maybe he's just kicking up on his back, pining for the fjords?
Maybe he's not dead - he's just resting.
Either way, he's got beautiful plumage.
I believe you are thinking of Jazirian.
Or Monty Python. :) I'm gonna get smacked with Big Al's stick for this!
 Now, that just sounds wrong.
Either way, I don't think Auppenser can be returned to active service just by waiving a stick. Unless it's the Pen of Ed. Or the Hooded One. |
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The Sage
Procrastinator Most High
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Posted - 15 Feb 2005 : 04:27:07
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Originally posted by George Krashos
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Originally posted by Dargoth
So I take it Lost Empires of Faerun is the only reference to Auppenser?
Only reference so far. He was created for the newly 'sexed up' Jhaamdath (personally, I like the psionicist angle). As for his specialty priests, hmmm no idea. Mindlords?
-- George Krashos
There's something in an old PS tome about the mindshapers of Auppenser. I wonder whether they have anything to do with this.
I'll have to research that particular reference properly before I add anything further.
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Dargoth
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Posted - 15 Feb 2005 : 06:21:04
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Hey Sage if you find anything on Auppenser in your Planescape material feel free to share!
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edbonny
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Posted - 16 Feb 2005 : 03:48:46
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Also any idea what Auppensers speciality priests are called?
Priests of Auppenser are called Psiarchs. I petitioned Dragon for a short prestige class article on them nearly a year ago but was alas turned down as a class based on psionics + Realms was considered too offbeat for the main readership.
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Dargoth
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Posted - 16 Feb 2005 : 04:03:19
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Originally posted by edbonny
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Originally posted by Dargoth
Also any idea what Auppensers speciality priests are called?
Priests of Auppenser are called Psiarchs. I petitioned Dragon for a short prestige class article on them nearly a year ago but was alas turned down as a class based on psionics + Realms was considered too offbeat for the main readership.
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Did you write the article?
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edbonny
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Posted - 16 Feb 2005 : 05:03:46
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Did you write the article?
No, I didn't. The class was also going to be accompanied by the Psionic Domain which did not make it into LEOF (and would have been a prerequisite for taking the prestige class). Now that Dragon is under new leadership which is looking for flavorful crunch, perhaps I should suggest it again.
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Dargoth
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Posted - 16 Feb 2005 : 05:14:47
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Originally posted by edbonny
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Originally posted by Dargoth
Did you write the article?
No, I didn't. The class was also going to be accompanied by the Psionic Domain which did not make it into LEOF (and would have been a prerequisite for taking the prestige class). Now that Dragon is under new leadership which is looking for flavorful crunch, perhaps I should suggest it again.
- Ed
Or try and hit WOTC up for a LEOF Web Enhancement....... |
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