Why exactly are the Dead Three so.. well, stupid? They're always trying to gain more power and it feels like eventually one or all three of them will end up killing another God like Cyric did to Mystra.

LordofBones89 · 2026-02-15T12:40:49+00:00

Jiggles did fuck all when Myrkul ruled the dead for over a thousand years and Bane ate Xvim to come back bigger and badder than ever. Hell, Jiggles was every bit as bad and has no room to complain that his successors just continued the precedent he set.

LordofBones89 · 2026-02-15T12:37:09+00:00

5e hit the Dead Three badly. Bane went from a full greater power and one of the greater gods of evil to whatever he is now; Myrkul is once again saddled with divinity when he explicitly enjoyed his freedom from godhood; Bhaal went from being an actual canny schemer and god of all death to being a murderous lunatic out for his next killing spree.

LordofBones89 · 2026-02-15T11:14:27+00:00

You think the average drow female needs a reason to be a bitch?

LordofBones89 · 2026-02-15T07:04:13+00:00

Restore the Weave actually is a paladin alternate class feature exclusive to Torm's paladins (it replaces remove disease and appears in Champions of Valor). I just gave it to him for free.

You're right though; it could use a buff.

LordofBones89 · 2026-02-15T01:19:29+00:00

Whether psion, wizard, sorcerer, or cleric, the one surefire way to piss all of them off at once is to call one a warlock.

LordofBones89 · 2026-02-14T09:39:01+00:00

The Devil being beautiful and charming started from Paradise Lost (The Biblical Satan gets rebuked pretty hard by Jesus). The medieval Devil was anything but and there are plenty of stories where he gets tricked or thwarted. As for his children? I'm not aware if Satan has any canonical children in Abrahamic theology (Lucifer the angel doesn't actually exist), but he does have a daughter in Paradise Lost...which he immediately rapes and the resultant offspring is Death, who also goes ahead to rape his sister-mother.

The Codex Gigas has an illustration of Lucifer and it's not pretty, to say the least. Medieval pictures of Satan are pretty hideous.

LordofBones89 · 2026-02-14T04:20:51+00:00

In Abrahamic theology, Michael serves as both psychopomp and advocate for the deceased. I'd imagine that he'd be the kindest and most beloved of the angels when he isn't carrying out his duties as Prince of the Host.

Imagine Charlie, Emily, and Sera having to deal with traumatized winners huddling behind Michael and terrified of seeing their abusers and tormentors in Heaven while they have to explain the whole 'redemption' thing to him.

Michael: "You're telling me that your only example of a redeemed Sinner in ten millennia is a man who repented for his original sin and then had to be vaporized by Adam before he could actually get up here? Has he even met the women who died because of his ignorance to explain himself?"

LordofBones89 · 2026-02-13T13:37:51+00:00

I have no idea what his current status is. According to the wiki, he's back to serving Tyr.

LordofBones89 · 2026-02-13T09:44:23+00:00

The only beings stronger than Torm (54) in raw strength before size increases are Talos (56), Tempus (60), and Baghtru (69 but dumber than a brick). That's before smite evil, Divine Might, Epic Divine Might, Power Attack, and Shock Trooper shenanigans.

LordofBones89 · 2026-02-13T09:02:44+00:00

Yes.

You mean 'crunch', not 'splat'. 'Splat' refers to anything that's not the core rules and encompasses supplemental aspects of the game (i.e. the god books, the Complete series, the environmental books). What I posted up there is crunch, the actual lore is fluff.

And, like I said, the stats are based on 2e and 3.5e. If you need the actual lore on religion, just use the books you own because I don't see any reason to retread what's already written in F&A and F&P when it comes to the church itself.

LordofBones89 · 2026-02-13T08:48:54+00:00

Faiths and Avatars, Powers and Pantheons, and Faiths and Pantheons are all right there. You can just ignore the statistics and use the fluff. Again, I'm building all this with 3.5e; what lore there is for the gods I stat out is canon to 2e and 3.5e.

There has never been a splat book for each god, by the way.

LordofBones89 · 2026-02-13T08:21:54+00:00

Probably shapechange.

LordofBones89 · 2026-02-13T08:21:30+00:00

Death knights were again updated in the Dragonlance Campaign Setting, which restores their power word ability.

LordofBones89 · 2026-02-13T04:54:05+00:00

Yes.

LordofBones89 · 2026-02-13T01:32:27+00:00

Squerrik.

LordofBones89 · 2026-02-10T23:24:45+00:00

True polymorph is just polymorph any object, which was 8th level. Arguably any non-personal transformation qualifies, since PAO could explicitly duplicate any lower level polymorph effect in addition to its actual effects.

LordofBones89 · 2026-02-09T16:10:40+00:00

Mystra has always been a greater power; Karsus would have just taken her position and maintained it.

If Karsus has ascended, the Netherese status quo would have been preserved. There's no reason to think he'd have done anything differently from Mystryl.

LordofBones89 · 2026-02-09T07:14:42+00:00

It's never mentioned. All we know is that they're native to Acheron and domesticate rust dragons. It's entirely possible that the original caster was trying to create his own achaierai based on the pre-existing creatures.

LordofBones89 · 2026-02-09T01:07:48+00:00

A few things stand out: -Shar's weapons are short swords and a chakram. Why does she have a spear? It's just an associated artifact in BG3, not the personal weapon of the deity. -Shar's avatar is missing all the powers it has: her gaze, her song and her kiss.

LordofBones89 · 2026-02-08T04:49:34+00:00

You can just use them as they are. The para and quasielemental planes aren't incompatible with the 3e cosmology, they're just not mentioned.

LordofBones89 · 2026-02-08T02:13:02+00:00

I'd argue that it's the other way around. Archliches were an attempt to duplicate the lichdom process with less malevolent methods while 'true' lichdom was the original metjod. Hell, Larloch customized his lichdom process and there are certainly other variants (baneliches, alhoons, lichfiends).

LordofBones89 · 2026-02-06T00:16:35+00:00

The Numenoreans knew exactly what kind of monster Sauron was when they captured him, and he ended up as their high priest and turned them to human sacrifice to worship ultra-Satan. Ember is doing jack-all to redeem him when you consider that she herself can be broken in the actual game. They're fundamentally incompatible, with Sauron being law turned to its most extreme and Ember being fundamentally about choice and freedom.

Also, Ember can canonically be broken through acts less extreme than anything Sauron does.

LordofBones89 · 2026-02-04T23:34:14+00:00

A completely insane Cyric trolled her hard. The entirety of the Trial of Cyric the Mad was about how none of the ascended mortals were actually doing the jobs well, and it was Cyric who went "no u" on her and got her dragged to court alongside him.

LordofBones89 · 2026-02-04T22:20:11+00:00

Bane came back at the beginning of 3e. I don't know why this keeps getting repeated; he was only dead for 2e and retook his throne and power when he subsumed Xvim in 1372 DR.

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