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#1 Mist-Bound Feb 07, 2011 19:38:57	I don't really know if this topic is appropriate for these boards, so please forgive me... I love D&D 4e; I love its setting, I love its rules, I love its very world. However, I recently came to own a copy of White Wolf's Scion RPG, a game revolving around playing as the offspring of a god and a mortal, and it too found a place in my heart. So, naturally, my mind drifted towards the possibility of fusing the two together. At its most basic, this seems simple enough to me; take the most basic concept of Scion (gods create half-mortal offspring to do their bidding and fight the forces in the world that they cannot), back with the Scion rules (they are already established, I might as well take advantage of them), and pour into the background of D&D, flavored to taste with further elements from Scion (the Primordials and the Greater Titans can mesh rather easily). So what's the problem, you ask? Simple. To first get a Scion, you need a god. In Scion, all Gods are associated with specific Purviews - areas of divine influence and power. This covers not only things that a God would stand for (Sky, Water, Frost, etc), but also physical or mental traits that would be most associated with that God - Epic Strength for Gods of War and Might, Epic Intelligence for Gods of Knowledge and Sorcery, that kind of thing. I'm simply not sure of how to properly divvy up the various Purviews and Epic Attributes amongst the gods of the Point of Light Pantheon. That is why I'm here; to see if I could get anyone to give me their opinion on this matter. And so, here I stand. To refresh your memories, the Points of Light pantheon consists of Avandra, Bahamut, Corellon, Erathis, Ioun, Kord, Melora, Moradin, Pelor, The Raven Queen and Sehanine. It also includes the malevolent (Evil or Chaotic Evil) Asmodeus, Bane, Gruumsh, Lolth, Tiamat, Torog, Vecna, and Zehir, but I don't know whether or not they would be appropriate. Scion itself doesn't restrict players - you can play Scions of Gods like Set, Loki, Ares, Tezcatlipoca... I just don't know. Anyway, these are the complete list of Purviews that Gods could potentially have. Scion also includes Pantheon Specific Purviews, powers that are innately tied to members of a specific Pantheon (the Dodekatheon, for example, has the Purview of Arete, which is supernatural capabilities in one or more skills, while the Aesir have the Purview of Jotunblot, which allows them to imbue beings with superhuman strength by feeding their blood to those "lucky" mortals), but I don't know if a D&D/Scion cross would include such things. Epic Strength Epic Dexterity Epic Stamina Epic Charisma Epic Manipulation Epic Appearance Epic Perception Epic Intelligence Epic Wits Animal Chaos Darkness Death Earth Fertility Frost Guardian Health Illusion Justice Magic Moon Mystery Prophecy Psychopomp Sky Sun War Water
#2 rhomaion Feb 07, 2011 20:24:53	Do you intend to use the 4e mechanics or the Scion ones? In my opinion the scion mechanics are horribly broken, but I can see some problems with using straight 4e due to the rather restricive nature of the class system. You could get around that by applying the "Scion-ness" of a character as some sort of racial thing.
#3 Mist-Bound Feb 07, 2011 20:44:47	Currently, I'm leaning towards simply using the Scion ruleset with D&D flavor. As I stated at the start, my primary concern at this point is figuring out which Purviews to give to the POL Deities.