Godsymbols - Good

In my Queston AD&D Campaign of old, I had a pantheon of Good gods and Evil gods (well, demons really)

Each god had a "specialty priest" type associated with it.  Eventually, I'll post those here.

Here's a pictorial map of the "Good" deities.

I designed these on my Mac-128 using MacPaint in about 1984 or 1985.   I designed them to print to my dot-matrix printer, so no color.  I printed them at one point and "colorized" them using markers... Maybe I'll scan that sometime...

The big symbol is the larger (more complicated -- HA!) holy symbol.  The smaller symbol is a kind of "sigil" associated with the deity.

From the top, then left to right, the deities are:

• Solon (The Illuminate, The Sungod) - LG
• Aerylyn (The Magistress) - CN
• Mayhem (Laugh Lord) - CG
• Valorian (Sword of Honor) - LG
• Monon (Nightglow, Goddess of the Moons) - N
• Fayn (The Incomprehensible, The Question) - N
• Malko (The Preserver) - NG
• Jarba (The Rectifier) - LN
• Slyke (The Sly, The Unseen, God of Thieves) - N

Jolie the Beautiful

My friend DB, drew this picture of the Goddess of Beauty, Jolie some years ago.  He found her again recently and I made a scan.

Here she is.  BTW, use the name "Jolie" dates back to 1988 and is based on the French I learned in HS.  No connection to a certain Angelina...  :)

A Curious Answer...

The good folks at Wizards hosted a live chat on Weds to talk about 5e.

Here's a quote from Mike Mearls that made me scratch my head:

11:04

Mearls:  Hmmm... let's see. I've been DMing mostly, and the rules have changed a lot over the past few days. Probably the funniest thing was guest starring as a librarian in a playtest game at DDXP. Also, I got to test the DR rules when the players had to cut open a dead wererat's stomach to find a gem it had swallowed. That was not how I expected to test those rules.

OK, I've highlighted the part that seems strange to me.

Are they actually rolling dice to see if some character can cut open the stomach of a rat?  Are they actually rolling dice to see if they can find the gem that is inside said rat?

Whaaaaa?

I'd love to know more.  I must be missing something here...

Drogo The Fat

My friend DB drew up this sketch of the haffi god, Drogo the Fat years ago.  I don't actually know when...

He found it recently and shared it with me, now I'm sharing it with you.  :)

This Just Isn't MY D&D

Saw this out on the blogosphere.  It's a list of characters (pregens) being played in a D&D Encounters 4e game.

• Windsoul/Firesoul Genasi Assassin
• Earthsoul Genasi Swordmage [Earthforger]
• Firesoul Genasi Barbarian (Berserker) [Ironwrought]
• Sandsoul Genasi Ranger (Hunter) [Unseelie Agent]
• Elf Ranger (Scout)

OK, that last one I get. 

What the hell are those other characters?  What's a Genasi?  Are they playing in Talislanta now?

Just sayin...

Adventuring Party Rescued from the Wilds of Eee'bhay

I have a saved search on eBay that looks for cool stuff for me.  One of those searches is "Grenadier Miniatures."

This morning, a lot of four minis popped up on my list so I gave it a look...

the caption includes "Female Thief, Female Mage, Rogue Adventurer and Barbarian Hero"

The packs looked to be in good condition, so I made the seller an offer on all four, which he accepted within two minutes.

:)

These four adventurers will be arriving at my house sometime soon where they will be freed from their acrylic prisons.  They will be reunited at my game table as a party of NPC adventurers...

... their saga is just beginning!

Oh, PS, if you'd like to offer me some cool names for this group, I've created a Google Form here.  Many thanks in advance for your suggestions!!

[1PD] Tesseract Prison of the Putrescent Lord

A bunch of really great folks volunteered to put together a multi-level megadungeon from a series of seven one-page dungeons.  The megadungeon is called "The Watery Palace of the Ooze Behemoth" and I look forward to pulling all seven levels together into a single PDF to share here.

Level 5 "The Pearly Spiral of Endless Hunger" can be found here at the Tower of the Archmage.  Thanks for participating David!

Other folks also participated, but I don't think they've shared their levels yet!  :)

My level is presented below.

You can download my level as a PDF here.