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Sat Nov 01, 2008 9:43 pm Specialty Priests and master list of Gods

Where can I find a complete listing of all the Gods of Greyhawk (including demi-human deities) and their specialty priests (for their spheres)? With age and kids, getting real hard making everything up all the time.

Sun Nov 02, 2008 4:36 pm

I like http://knights-n-knaves.com/dmprata/Deitybase.pdf it is very thorough and has information on the deities and their priests broken down by pantheon. (i.e. Flan, Oerdian, Suel, Common etc.) The link above is to the main ToC and there are links within that pdf to the other sections.

My two commons

Sun Nov 02, 2008 7:01 pm

Unfortunately the Deitybase doesn't have Spheres of Influence listed for the deities, but it is a great collection of information on all of the Greyhawk divinities. Many of the various deitys' Spheres of Influence(with regard to granting spells) are listed in From the Ashes and The Scarlet Brotherhood, but many are still not covered.

I started to fill in the blanks of what wasn't covered myself, and have posted them in the Greyhawk 2nd Edition rules forum. There are still quite a few deities left to do however. Just scroll through the forum threads there which were started by me to find them. Perhaps I will collect them in a single thread or put them together in an article at some point.

Sun Nov 02, 2008 7:39 pm

I compiled the Deitybase™ for my AD&D® campaign, which rule set does not explicitly use spheres of influence. However, I incorporated this concept by giving each deity a list of 3rd- and higher-level spells that would be granted to the deity's priests. In many cases, these lists were based on the 2nd Edition spheres listed in FtA or elsewhere; it shouldn't be hard to reverse-engineer the spheres from the spell lists.

Sun Nov 02, 2008 9:38 pm

Just do me a favor and get rid of the Force Domain, that is the stupidest piece of stupid since "I don't want to be Elfstar anymore!"

Mon Nov 03, 2008 1:12 am

Its too bad the Greytalk archives aren't around; back in the day, we'd hammered out most of the gods into 2e specialty priests. Otherwise, yeah FtA will have some useful info for you.
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Mon Nov 03, 2008 7:41 am

While it doesn't have the spheres and specialty priests because it's third edition, you might also look at the Living Greyhawk Deities v2.0, which can be downloaded at http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=lg/welcome.

The 3rd edition Portfolios and Domains can be converted back to spheres of influence and it does a good job of listing almost everyone and giving an organized overview of them all. The last couple of pages sorts them all by which domains each is involved with.

Mon Nov 03, 2008 7:51 pm

Tue Nov 04, 2008 7:21 am

dsdm23, you might also check over the 2E boards. At a quick glance I found write-ups for Allitur, Wee Jas, Xan Yae, Geshtai and Phaulkon. There's lots of 2E godly goodness on there!
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