Quote from: mcbobbo;716972I want to gripe about this, too, and I think the Pathfinder pantheon is one of the worst offenders.  I find many of their deities simply make no sense.  None!

http://pathfinderwiki.com/wiki/Lamashtu

Mother of monsters.  Okay...  Loves deformities, and is, for some reason Chaotic evil.  She really seems too tolerant to qualify as 'evil' to me.  And matronly.  She wants to make more monsters, but isn't that largely just procreation?

And why do gnolls consider themselves deformed??  Wouldn't gnolls consider themselves to be beautiful and the rest of us to be ugly?

I don't know.  It just feels like about fifteen minutes of thought put to pen and expanded upon over time.  It does not feel like a 'god' to me.

Now, loving deformities would make a GREAT feature of a chaotic neutral deity (to revel in the chaos of it), but I expect too much...

Pretty sure this is based on a Mesopotamian deity of the same name, with many similar characteristics.

Quote from: Archangel Fascist;717081I'm just going to pop in and say that TVTropes is awful.

When a site identifying Tropes can't define a single one without using the terms of bare minimum 12 others, time to hang it up, your wankfest has become too smugly ironic for its own good.

Quote from: CRKrueger;717164When a site identifying Tropes can't define a single one without using the terms of bare minimum 12 others, time to hang it up, your wankfest has become too smugly ironic for its own good.

It's not so much that it's smug, it's that it (as with all nerd pursuits) is very insular and circlejerky.  The site also caters to the worst of nerddom, including bronies, furries, and fan fiction writers.

Quote from: Archangel Fascist;717081I'm just going to pop in and say that TVTropes is awful.

Alot of garbage and alot of interesting factoids. Its degraded over the years though unfortunately and slides a little more to mocking than listing half the time now it feels.

Quote from: Old Geezer;714502"It's just a dumb game."  -- Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson.

Early GREYHAWK featured the First Church of Crom, Scientist, Mitra's Witnesses, and the Church of Latter Day Great Old Ones.

The folks with whom I play D&D tend not to get hung up on treating things with Serious Gravity, either.

I ran one scenario inspired by R.E. Howard's "The Gods of Bal-Sagoth," and in my version the rival of the girl "goddess" had a Ron Hubbard kind of take on the usual Lord of Darkness deal. Hearing a sales pitch, a couple of players recognized the references and got a good laugh out of it.

They weren't laughing so much when he seemed about to whup their butts aboard his flying saucer, but that kind of swing is cool with this group.

Quote from: mcbobbo;716969AFAIK, no one is currently worshiping Zeus, so who's to be offended?

I know people who worship Zeus.  Or at least, pretend to.