Custom Pantheon 4: Probably Not Final Thoughts

After I "finished" the new pantheon, I had one god for each alignment, with two exceptions: I had no Chaotic Neutral, because it's the dumbest alignment known to man and screw you if you want to be CN or worship a CN god; and I had two NEs, because of Inglip.

Inglip was problematic. I didn't want to just merge him with Mirk, because then the Mind Flayers and Aboleths would be worshipping the same thing. I didn't want to just make Inglip more of a monstrous aberration, as that would start treading more upon the schtick of the Burning Hate. I didn't want to make Inglip more mysterious, as that would infringe upon the schtick of the Exciting Mystery God.

Then, after some hemming and hawing, I decided upon a solution: Inglip can be the Chaotic Neutral god. To wit: I adapted some of the actual teachings of the church of Inglip, in particular the bit about interpreting cryptic messages in captchas things like candle wax, tea leaves, and fire ashes. I'm aiming for a bit of ambiguity between "not actually meaningful", "meaningful but with no long-term plan", and "meaningful and with a long-term plan which is incomprehensible to mortals".

Side note: I've never been entirely clear how to map Blue and Orange Morality onto the D&D alignments. Depends on how you do the blue and orange morality, I suppose. Could be just about anywhere. Even Good: imagine a hypothetical celestial who simply has no comprehension that something so terrible as killing is even possible. It draws a spectrum of morality between the ultimate good of standing there swaying slightly to the music of the spheres, and the ultimate evil of, say, jaywalking. Clearly good (depending on what it thinks the proper punishment for jaywalkers is. "Killing jaywalkers" is pretty evil, but if it has no comprehension of killing, then the proper punishment for jaywalkers is probably something like "more jaywalking").

Anyhow, Inglip's morality is Blue and Orange, and his plan is not knowable to mortals. The best a mortal can do is interpret each individual edict to the best of his ability, which winds up with inconsistent and probably occasionally psychopathic behaviour. If Inglip tells you "overthrow toronto", you overthrow Toronto. If Inglip tells you "watch Pony", you watch My Little Pony. There's a balance between good and evil, is what I'm saying. (Yes, yes, obvious joke that "kill bieber" is an even more Good thing to do than "watch Pony". But I try not to advocate killing real people, even in jest.) The Chronic Backstabbing Disorder this gives you is the kind of thing that earlier editions called True Neutral, but that's one reason we don't play earlier editions. And yes, an argument can be made that following Inglip's commands to the letter is Lawful, but when those commands are so Chaotic and lead to such gibberish behaviour, I think it's at best Neutral.

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Also, Magg and Mirk start with the same letter and have the same number of letters and syllables. That's no good, no player will be able to keep them straight. It's as confusing as Ehlonna and Erythnul, or Vecna and Valkur, or Sauron and Saruman, or Tywin and Tyrion, or Asha and Osha, or Jesus, Judas, James, and John, or Eli, Elijah and Elisha, or... you get the idea.

Despite the fact that there are so many aversions in so many well-respected works of fiction, this is actually a really good rule to pay attention to. Never have two characters with similar names, or even names which start with the same letter, if you can help it.

So, let's rename one of them. I kind of like Mirk, and I'm okay with Magg losing touch with its acronym origins entirely. As I was walking home from D&D just before writing this bit, I turned over a bunch of variations in my head. Not Kromagg. Robot-Magg? No, though that just gave me the brilliant idea that maybe he's a Construct, not an Outsider. (Numiel and the Burning Hate are Dragons; Mirk is Undead; the others are pretty much Outsiders. Construct is pretty weak, though; their main selling point is their laundry list of immunities, which mostly overlaps with the immunities that deities get by virtue of having divine rank. Oh well.) Then I was rolling something like Earth-Magg around in my head, and came upon Urmagg. Even though "ur-" indicates something original or prototypical, and this god's one of the newer ones. Hm. It's still missing some touch. Urmaggr? Yes, there we go, I think I like Urmaggr.

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Also, the domains were all crazy. Some gods had like seven domains and some had like thirty. I evened them out so every god has the same number of domains. 26 is probably definitely kind of a lot for one deity, but there are a lot of domains and I want to cover all of them. I guess if a player really wants a combination of domains not offered, they can just be a cleric of the entire pantheon, so I could have trimmed each list even more, but meh, whatever.

Custom Reincarnate Tables 3: Giants

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Roll 1d200.

Dice	Creature	Src
1-10	Phaerlin Giant	MoFae-50
11-20	Ogre	MM-198
21-29	Least Dusk Giant	HoH-147
30-38	Wang-Liang	OA-198
39-46	Fensir	FFolio-69
47-54	Troll	MM-247
55-61	Ettin	MM-106
62-68	Bog Giant	FFolio-81
69-74	Hill Giant	MM-123
75-80	Common Oni	OA-180
81-85	Lesser Cyclops	D&Dg-132
86-90	Ken-Kuni	MM5-48
91-95	Rakka	FFolio-70
96-100	Fog Giant	MoFae-50
101-105	Stone Giant	MM-124
106-110	Ogre Mage	MM-200
111-115	Bloodrager Troll	MM5-180
116-120	Cave Troll	MM3-177
121-124	Lesser Dusk Giant	HoH-147
125-128	Frost Giant	MM-122
129-132	Go-Zu Oni	OA-180
133-136	Fire Troll	DrgCmp-220
137-139	Ken-Li	MM5-48
140-142	Craa'ghoran	MM4-60
143-145	Fire Giant	MM-121
146-148	Totem Giant	MoI-178
149-151	Me-Zu Oni	OA-180
152-153	Greater Cyclops	D&Dg-132
154-155	Fomorian	MM2-105
156-157	Cloud Giant	MM-120
158-159	Forest Giant	MM2-110
160	Firbolg	MM2-101
161	Sun Giant	MM2-110
162	Ken-Sun	MM5-49
163	Storm Giant	MM-125
164	Greater Dusk Giant	HoH-147
165	Shadow Giant	FFolio-82
166	Geriviar	MM3-52
167	Ocean Giant	MM2-110
168	Mountain Giant	MM2-112
169-175	Animal	reroll
176-182	Fey	reroll
183-189	Monstrous Humanoid	reroll
190-196	Humanoid	reroll
197-200	Other	reroll

Custom Reincarnate Tables 3: Elementals

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Roll 1d200.

Elementals cannot normally be reincarnated. There is no existing subtype which indicates an elemental with a separate soul. If a non-elemental is reincarnated into the body of an elemental, apply the [native] or [living construct] subtype, at your discretion (ignoring the convention that these subtypes be applied only to Outsiders and Constructs, respectively).

Dice	Creature	Src
1	Avatar of Elemental Evil, Black Rock Triskelion	MM4-8
2	Avatar of Elemental Evil, Cyclonic Ravager	MM4-10
3	Avatar of Elemental Evil, Holocaust Disciple	MM4-11
4	Avatar of Elemental Evil, Waterveiled Assassin	MM4-13
5	Belker	MM-27
6	Blazewyrm	DMagic-111
7	Breathdrinker	MM2-39
8	Caller from the Deeps	StormW-140
9	Chraal	MM3-28
10-12	Dust Twister	SandS-162
13	Earth Whisper	RoSto-187
14-17	Elemental Grue, Chaggrin (Earth)	CArc-153
18-21	Elemental Grue, Harginn (Fire)	CArc-154
22-25	Elemental Grue, Ildriss (Air)	CArc-155
26-29	Elemental Grue, Vardigg (Water)	CArc-155
30	Elemental Monolith, Air	CArc-156
31	Elemental Monolith, Earth	CArc-157
32	Elemental Monolith, Fire	CArc-158
33	Elemental Monolith, Water	CArc-158
34-37	Elemental Steward, Arctine	CPsi-130
38-41	Elemental Steward, Emberling	CPsi-130
42-45	Elemental Steward, Geodite	CPsi-130
46-49	Elemental Steward, Tempestan	CPsi-130
50	Elemental Weird, Air	MM2-90
51	Elemental Weird, Earth	MM2-90
52	Elemental Weird, Fire	MM2-90
53	Elemental Weird, Ice	FrostB-126
54	Elemental Weird, Snow	FrostB-127
55	Elemental Weird, Water	MM2-90
56	Elemental, Air, Elder	MM-95
57	Elemental, Air, Greater	MM-95
58	Elemental, Air, Huge	MM-95
59	Elemental, Air, Large	MM-95
60-62	Elemental, Air, Medium	MM-95
63-67	Elemental, Air, Small	MM-95
68	Elemental, Earth, Elder	MM-95
69	Elemental, Earth, Greater	MM-95
70	Elemental, Earth, Huge	MM-95
71	Elemental, Earth, Large	MM-95
72-74	Elemental, Earth, Medium	MM-95
75-79	Elemental, Earth, Small	MM-95
80	Elemental, Fire, Elder	MM-95
81	Elemental, Fire, Greater	MM-95
82	Elemental, Fire, Huge	MM-95
83	Elemental, Fire, Large	MM-95
84-86	Elemental, Fire, Medium	MM-95
87-91	Elemental, Fire, Small	MM-95
92	Elemental, Primal, Air	ELHb-187
93	Elemental, Primal, Earth	ELHb-187
94	Elemental, Primal, Fire	ELHb-187
95	Elemental, Primal, Water	ELHb-187
96	Elemental, Shadow, Elder	ToM-166
97	Elemental, Shadow, Greater	ToM-166
98	Elemental, Shadow, Huge	ToM-166
99	Elemental, Shadow, Large	ToM-165
100-101	Elemental, Shadow, Medium	ToM-165
102-105	Elemental, Shadow, Small	ToM-165
106	Elemental, Storm, Elder	MM3-48
107	Elemental, Storm, Greater	MM3-48
108	Elemental, Storm, Huge	MM3-48
109	Elemental, Storm, Large	MM3-48
110-111	Elemental, Storm, Medium	MM3-48
112-115	Elemental, Storm, Small	MM3-48
116	Elemental, Taint, Elder	HoH-146
117	Elemental, Taint, Greater	HoH-146
118	Elemental, Taint, Huge	HoH-146
119	Elemental, Taint, Large	HoH-145
120	Elemental, Taint, Medium	HoH-145
121-123	Elemental, Taint, Small	HoH-145
124	Elemental, Water, Elder	MM-95
125	Elemental, Water, Greater	MM-95
126	Elemental, Water, Huge	MM-95
127	Elemental, Water, Large	MM-95
128-130	Elemental, Water, Medium	MM-95
131-135	Elemental, Water, Small	MM-95
136-137	Elementite Swarm, Air	PlnrHb-114
138-139	Elementite Swarm, Earth	PlnrHb-115
140-141	Elementite Swarm, Fire	PlnrHb-116
142-143	Elementite Swarm, Water	PlnrHb-116
144-146	Fire Bat	MM2-102
147	Galeb Duhr	MM2-107
148-150	Ice Serpent	MoFae-62
151	Immoth	MM2-127
152	Inferno Spider	MM4-76
153	Invisible Stalker	MM-160
154	Living Holocaust	FFolio-117
155-157	Magma Hurler	MHb-65
158-160	Magmin	MM-179
161	Omnimental	MM3-118
162	Ruin Elemental	MM5-134
163	Spawn of Juiblex, Elder	MM5-163
164	Spawn of Juiblex, Greater	MM5-162
165	Spawn of Juiblex, Lesser	MM5-162
166-169	Stone Spike	MM2-191
170	Tempest	MM2-193
171-174	Thoqqua	MM-242
175-176	Walking Wall	MHb-72
177-181	Construct	reroll
182-186	Dragon	reroll
187-191	Ooze	reroll
192-196	Undead	reroll
197-200	Other	reroll

Continua of Power

The Dungeon Master's Guide/Monster Manual mentions basically two options for determining who in your campaign world is powerful and who is not: the obvious character level, and the Elite vs Nonelite system. In the latter, elites use the Elite Array (15, 13, 12, 10, 8; equivalent to 25 point buy); nonelites use the Nonelite Array (13, 12, 11, 10, 9, 8; equivalent to 15 point buy) or the Standard Array (10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10; equivalent to 12 point buy). There may also be a thing about Elites maximizing their hp at first level while Nonelites do not.

I use both of these things, sort of. But I also use other things to determine who's weak and who's powerful.

• Class Level: Almost every person in the world is class level 1 at most. Only the most impressive get past level 3-5. I can count the number of mortal NPCs in the world who have 7 class levels without taking off my shoes. So adventurers who adventure for awhile are awfully powerful by mortal standards. Especially because I apply the CR system as it's written, which means characters, by fighting monsters which are weaker than they are, can get more XP from me faster than they get from most DMs; I think I might stop being quite so generous with XP. (Even though there are no NPCs above class level 7, items which require higher levels to create are plentiful. Don't ask how that happens.)
• Point Buy: PCs and the most naturally talented NPCs start with point buy 30. Most NPCs start with the Standard or Nonelite Array, or with point buy somewhere in the 12-25 range.
• Class Tier: The overwhelming majority of NPCs are Commoners. Of those that aren't, most are other NPC classes like Expert or Warrior. Of those that aren't, most are other low-tier classes like Samurai and Fighter. Some are mid-tier classes like Bard or Factotum, and a handful of the most skilled are high-tier classes like Cleric or Wizard. This, more than class level or point buy, is why churches and cults and mage guilds and the druids who rule the Elves wield so much power.
• Divine Rank: The gods have divine ranks. Because I prefer smaller numbers, I'm inclined to limit my custom pantheon in the same way I limit class level: every god is divine rank 1-5. I've also been considering a system where gods (and only gods) get to gestalt, probably with racial HD or between a high-tier class and a low-tier class, or between two mid-tier classes. (These two things make gods much more powerful than even the most powerful of level 20 PCs, but still in theory defeatable by the most powerful mortals.)

I think I'm going to limit all characters to at most class level 20 (10+ already being epic in this campaign). E20 is kind of a silly concept; nobody's ever going to get that high in the first place in this campaign. But if they do, then they can start advancing as deities. If it ever becomes a thing, I'll come up with rules for doing that. Maybe once you ding 20, you gain divine rank 0; that way, everybody gets a capstone even if their class doesn't give them one. Perhaps at level 20 you stop gaining experience altogether, though you're free to keep gaining gold, and advancing divine ranks depends only on RP. Maybe there'll be a way to gain divine rank 0 through RP before hitting 20 if any players are inclined to seek it out (perhaps by killing an existing god). Maybe you get to gestalt if you hit divine rank 1. These are all interesting ideas.

Custom Reincarnate Table 3: Undead

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Roll 1d200.

Undead cannot normally be reincarnated. There is no existing subtype which indicates an undead with a separate soul. If a non-undead is reincarnated into the body of an undead, apply the [native] or [living construct] subtype at your discretion (ignoring the convention that these subtypes normally apply only to Outsiders and Constructs, respectively).

(This table also includes Deathless.)

Dice	Creature	Src
1	Abyssal Ghoul	FFolio-12
2-3	Allip	MM-10
4	Angel of Decay	LibMor-83
5	Ascendant Councilor	EbCS-276
6-7	Ashen Husk	SandS-137
8	Atropal	ELHb-159
9	Atropal Scion	LibMor-84
10	Bane Wraith	HoH-139
11-12	Banedead	MoFae-16
13-15	Baneguard	MoFae-17
16	Banshee	MM2-30
17	Bhut	FFolio-20
18	Blackskate	StormW-139
19	Blackwing	MM5-12
20	Blaspheme	LibMor-85
21	Bleakborn	LibMor-86
22	Blood Amniote	LibMor-87
23	Blood Fiend	FFolio-46
24	Bloodhulk Crusher	MM4-21
25	Bloodhulk Fighter	MM4-20
26	Bloodhulk Giant	MM4-20
27	Bloodmote Cloud	LibMor-88
28	Bloodrot	HoH-140
29	Bodak	MM-28
30	Bog Mummy	DrgCmp-208
31	Bone Naga	MM2-35
32-33	Bone Rat Swarm	LibMor-88
34-36	Bonebat (Deep Bat)	MoFae-18
37	Boneclaw	MM3-17
38	Bonedrinker	MM3-18
39-40	Bonespitter	DrgCmp-178
41-42	Bonespur	MM5-156
43	Boneyard	LibMor-89
44	Brain In A Jar	LibMor-90
45	Bridge Haunt	MM5-78
46	Casurua	DrgCmp-181
47	Charnel Hound	MM3-26
48	Cinderspawn	LibMor-91
49	Corpse Gatherer	MM2-51
50	Corpse Rat Swarm	LibMor-92
51	Crawling Apocalypse	SandS-143
52	Crawling Head	FFolio-35
53	Crimson Death	MM2-53
54	Crypt Chanter	LibMor-93
55-56	Crypt Thing	FFolio-36
57	Crypt Warden	BoED-167
58-59	Cursed Spirit	MHb-60
60	Deadborn Vulture Zombie	MM5-18
61	Deathbringer	MM2-55
62-63	Deathlock	LibMor-94
64	Deathshead	ToM-81
65	Deathshrieker	MM3-33
66	Defacer	MM4-38
67-69	Desiccator	LibMor-94
70	Devourer	MM-58
71-72	Dread Warrior	MoFae-46
73	Dread Wraith	MM-257
74	Dream Vestige	LibMor-96
75	Dust Wight	MM3-47
76	Effigy	MM2-89
77	Entombed	FrostB-128
78	Entomber	LibMor-97
79	Entropic Reaper	LibMor-98
80	Eye of Fear and Flame	BoVD-177
81	Famine Spirit	MM2-96
82	Forest Haunt	MM5-80
83	Forsaken Shell	LibMor-100
84-85	Ghast	MM-119
86-89	Ghoul	MM-118
90	Gravecrawler	MM2-118
91-92	Gravehound	MHb-62
93	Greater Mummy	D&Dg-159
94	Hopping Vampire	OA-169
95	Hulking Corpse	LibMor-109
96	Hullathoin	FFolio-96
97	Hunefer	ELHb-198
98	Icegaunt	FrostB-141
99	Incarnum Wraith	MoI-180
100	Jahi	MM2-130
101	Jiki-Ketsu-Gaki	OA-164
102-105	Jiki-Niku-Gaki	OA-164
106-107	Karrnathi Skeleton	EbCS-292
108-109	Karrnathi Zombie	EbCS-292
110	Lavawight	ELHb-200
111	Lesser Bonedrinker	MM3-19
112	Mind Flayer Vampire	LoM-160
113	Mohrg	MM-189
114	Mummy	MM-190
115-116	Murk	LibMor-112
117	Necronaut	MM3-108
118-119	Necrotic Carnex	MM4-104
120	Nightcrawler	MM-195
121	Nightwalker	MM-195
122	Nightwing	MM-195
123-124	Onikage	OA-188
125	Painspeaker	ToM-269
126	Plague Blight	LibMor-115
127	Plague Spewer	MM3-125
128-129	Plague Walker	MM4-120
130-131	Quell	LibMor-116
132	Quth-Maren	FFolio-139
133	Ragewind	MM2-173
134-137	Raiment	LibMor-117
138	Sacred Watcher	BoED-182
139	Sanguineous Drinker	MM5-142
140	Serpentir	MM5-158
141-142	Shadow	MM-221
143	Shadow of the Void	ELHb-214
144	Shape of Fire	ELHb-215
145	Shikki-Gaki	OA-164
146	Shinen-Gaki	OA-164
147	Skeletal Warbeast	HoB-156
148-149	Skin Kite	LibMor-119
150	Skirr	LibMor-120
151	Skulking Cyst	LibMor-121
152	Skull Lord	MM5-154
153	Slaughter Wight	LibMor-121
154-156	Slaymate	LibMor-122
157	Spawn of Kyuss	MM2-186
158	Spectral Lyrist	LibMor-123
159	Spectral Rider	MM5-160
160	Spectre	MM-232
161-162	Spiritus Anime	DrgCmp-216
163	Taunting Haunt	MM5-82
164-166	Tomb Mote	LibMor-128
167-168	Tyrantfog Zombie	MoFae-85
169	Ulgurstasta	FFolio-180
170	Undying Councilor	EbCS-301
171	Vampire Spawn	MM-253
172-174	Vasuthant	MM3-182
175	Vilewight	BoVD-183
176	Visage	LibMor-130
177	Vitreous Drinker	MM4-174
178	Voidwraith	LibMor-131
179	Wheep	LibMor-132
180-181	Wight	MM-255
182	Winterspawn	FrostB-161
183	Winterwight	ELHb-227
184	Wraith	MM-257
185-187	Aberration	reroll
188-190	Construct	reroll
191-193	Elemental	reroll
194-196	Plant	reroll
197-200	Other	reroll

Custom Reincarnate Tables 3: Dragons

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Roll 1d200.

Dice	Creature	Src
1-6	Ambush Drake	MM3-8
7	Aspect of Bahamut	DMagic-108
8	Aspect of Tiamat	DMagic-110
9	Dragon Eel	MM3-44
10-11	Dragon Turtle	MM-88
12-18	Dragonnel	Draco-151
19-23	Drake, Elemental, Air	Draco-152
24	Drake, Elemental, Earth	Draco-153
25	Drake, Elemental, Fire	Draco-154
26-29	Drake, Elemental, Ice	Draco-154
30	Drake, Elemental, Magma	Draco-155
31	Drake, Elemental, Ooze	Draco-156
32-33	Drake, Elemental, Smoke	Draco-157
34-36	Drake, Elemental, Water	Draco-157
37-43	Drake, Stone	RoSto-189
44-48	Faerie Dragon	Draco-158
49-59	Felldrake, Crested	MM2-97
60-67	Felldrake, Horned	MM2-97
68-74	Felldrake, Spiked	Draco-160
75-83	Felldrake, Spitting	MM2-97
84	Hellfire Wyrm	MM2-125
85-90	Ibrandlin	MoFae-62
91	Landwyrm, Desert	Draco-169
92	Landwyrm, Forest	Draco-170
93	Landwyrm, Hill	Draco-170
94	Landwyrm, Jungle	Draco-171
95	Landwyrm, Mountain	Draco-172
96-100	Landwyrm, Plains	Draco-172
101	Landwyrm, Tundra	Draco-174
102-104	Landwyrm, Underdark	Draco-175
105	Landwyrn, Swamp	Draco-173
106	Linnorn, Corpse Tearer	MM2-140
107	Linnorn, Dread	MM2-140
108	Linnorn, Gray	MM2-140
109-119	Pseudodragon	MM-210
120-121	Rage Drake	MM3-131
122	Sea Drake	FFolio-147
123	Spelleater	DMagic-119
124	Ssvaklor	MM3-166
125	Ssvaklor, Greater	MM3-166
126	Storm Drake	Draco-194
127	Sunwyrm	FFolio-164
128	True Dragon, Battle	Draco-176
129	True Dragon, Brown	MoFae-38
130	True Dragon, Chaos	Draco-177
131	True Dragon, Chromatic, Black	MM-70
132	True Dragon, Chromatic, Blue	MM-72
133	True Dragon, Chromatic, Green	MM-74
134	True Dragon, Chromatic, Red	MM-75
135	True Dragon, Chromatic, White	MM-77
136	True Dragon, Deep	MoFae-40
137	True Dragon, Ethereal	Draco-179
138	True Dragon, Fang	MoFae-41
139	True Dragon, Fang	Draco-159
140	True Dragon, Force	ELHb-182
141	True Dragon, Gem, Amethyst	MM2-79
142	True Dragon, Gem, Crystal	MM2-81
143	True Dragon, Gem, Emerald	MM2-82
144	True Dragon, Gem, Sapphire	MM2-84
145	True Dragon, Gem, Topaz	MM2-85
146	True Dragon, Howling	Draco-180
147	True Dragon, Incarnum	MoI-173
148	True Dragon, Lung, Chiang (River)	OA-155
149	True Dragon, Lung, Li (Earth)	OA-156
150	True Dragon, Lung, Pan (Coiled)	OA-158
151	True Dragon, Lung, Shen (Spirit)	OA-159
152	True Dragon, Lung, T'ien (Celestial)	OA-161
153	True Dragon, Lung, Tun Mi (Typhoon)	OA-162
154	True Dragon, Lung, Wang (Sea)	OA-157
155	True Dragon, Lung, Yu (Carp)	OA-154
156	True Dragon, Metallic, Brass	MM-79
157	True Dragon, Metallic, Bronze	MM-80
158	True Dragon, Metallic, Copper	MM-82
159	True Dragon, Metallic, Gold	MM-84
160	True Dragon, Metallic, Silver	MM-86
161	True Dragon, Oceanus	Draco-181
162	True Dragon, Orange	DrgCmp-195
163	True Dragon, Prismatic	ELHb-184
164	True Dragon, Purple	DrgCmp-197
165	True Dragon, Pyroclastic	Draco-182
166	True Dragon, Radiant	Draco-185
167	True Dragon, Rust	Draco-186
168	True Dragon, Shadow	MoFae-42
169	True Dragon, Shadow	Draco-191
170	True Dragon, Song	MoFae-44
171	True Dragon, Styx	Draco-187
172	True Dragon, Tarterian	Draco-189
173	True Dragon, Yellow	DrgCmp-199
174	Velroc	DMagic-123
175-179	Wyvern	MM-259
180-183	Animal	reroll
184-187	Elemental	reroll
188-191	Magical Beast	reroll
192-195	Outsider	reroll
196-200	Other	reroll

Creation of a Custom Pantheon 3: The Gods Themselves 2

So I've already pretty much got MAGG. He needs to be fiddled with, though. I'll start by pretending his name isn't an acronym.

Magg
Magg is the  god of machines, scientific knowledge, progress, and the engineer race.
The engineers are a pragmatic people, and have little use for religion, manufacturing their own good fortune out of metal and skill. Perhaps more importantly, there is little space for shrines in the cramped confines of the submarines. Some few traditionalist engineers still worship the old gods of their dwarven and gnomish ancestors, but those that do generally worship the two in conjunction with one another, as Magg, god of machines.
Early in engineer history, soon after the invention of the sapient seaforged, a special temple to the two gods was constructed and populated with specially-programmed constructs which came to be known as templeforged. These templeforged were instructed to worship their gods in whatever way they saw fit, to keep the gods strong and the engineers in their favour, allowing the engineers themselves to do more important work. What reaction the gods had to this blasphemy is unknown, though it is possible that they had been so weakened by the Inundation that there was little they could do about it if they wanted to.
The ever-efficient templeforged, given free reign to worship as they wished, soon combined each worship and prayer session directed to one god or the other into one joint session directed to both at once. Eventually, the conceptual lines between the two deities became blurred, and by the present time the two gods are considered nothing more than two aspects of one greater deity, known as Magg, even their names all but forgotten.
Magg is lawful neutral. His holy symbol is a gleaming golden hammer. Clerics of Magg can choose between the battleaxe and warhammer as their favoured weapon. The domains associated with MAGG are Protection, Earth, Law, Metal, and Mechanus.
Followers of MAGG are frequently artificers (Eberron Campaign Setting), hammers of Moradin (Player’s Guide to Faerun), dwarf paragons (Unearthed Arcana), dwarven defenders (Dungeon Master’s Guide), battlesmiths (Races of Stone), gnome paragons (Unearthed Arcana), or divine pranksters (Races of Stone).

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Now, to combine Dalya (already a repurposed Yondalla) and Olidammara!


Dalya
With the resettlement of land, a popular cult, worshipping the beautiful goddess Dalya her as the goddess of agriculture, fertility, and wisdom, has arisen. Dalya is tricksy, though, and isn't afraid to resort to underhanded methods to support her followers.
Dalya is Chaotic Good. Clerics of Dalya may choose from the Chaos, Family, Feast, Halfling, Joy, Luck, Lust, Plant, Summer, or Trickery domains.
For her favored weapon, a cleric of Dalya may choose between the sickle and the scythe. Dalya's holy symbol is a cornucopia (horn of plenty).
Followers of Dalya are frequently bards, rogues, halfling paragons (Unearthed Arcana), halfling outriders (Complete Warrior), temple raiders of Olidammara (Complete Divine), or divine pranksters (Races of Stone).

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What of the god of secrets, magic, death, and fustiness? We're combining a bunch of not entirely related gods. I kind of want to call him "The Shadow", but that would lead to endless quotations of this. So that's probably a no go. "The Darkness" has similar problems. The... Creeping Gloom? The Lugubrious Murk? Ooh, "Mirk" is an archaic spelling of "murk". Mirk, the Lugubrious One. Excellent.

Presumably Mirk is an old man in a black cloak, that seems standard. Or else a giant brain, Ilsensine has been depicted in canon that way. Yes, perhaps we can combine these.

So:

Mirk
Mirk, the Lugubrious One, is god of secrets, magic, death, and long-forgotten knowledge. He is worshipped by many who seek magical power, particularly for nefarious ends, including sorcerers, wizards, drow, and mind flayers. He is usually depicted as an unsupported, floating nervous system, brain and eyes and nerves, draped in a black cloak, though occasionally he is represented simply as a giant brain.
Mirk is neutral evil.
Clerics of Mirk may choose between the Death, Destiny, Domination, Dream, Evil, Inquisition, Knowledge, Madness, Magic, Mind, Oracle, Trickery, and Tyranny domains.
Mirk's favored weapon is the dagger.
Followers of Mirk are frequently wizards, archivists (Heroes of Horror), ninjas (Complete Adventurer), dread necromancers (Heroes of Horror), paladins of tyranny (Unearthed Arcana), blackguards (Dungeon Master’s Guide), true necromancers (Libris Mortis), necrocarnates (Magic of Incarnum), masters of shrouds (Libris Mortis), ruby knight vindicators (Tome of Battle), divine oracles (Complete Divine), mindbenders (Complete Arcane), assassins (Dungeon Master’s Guide), pale masters (Libris Mortis), nightcloaks (web enhancement), mystic theurges (Dungeon Master’s Guide), or loremasters (Dungeon Master’s Guide).

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Now for the god of senseless violence and horrible monsters! Woo! Al-Ishtus, Erythnul, Gruumsh, Lolth, Maglubiyet, the Great Mother, Kurtulmak, Tiamat, and the Burning Hate.

Let's call it the Burning Hate. That's not exactly my intellectual property, but it's not exactly anybody else's, either.

I started writing, and it wound up more like Echidna, Mother of All Monsters, than I was expecting. I'm completely okay with that.

The Burning Hate
The Burning Hate is a horrible chimeric monster that exists only to destroy all that is good. It loves to breed and to subsume horrible things within itself, creating and absorbing evil in equal measure. Demons, orcs, goblins, harpies, beholders, oozes, chimeras, vermin, hydras, chromatic dragons, all are thought to ultimately draw their ancestry back to the Burning Hate.
The Burning Hate does not plan or subjugate or rule; it leaves those trifles to its followers. The Burning Hate only destroys.
The Burning Hate is chaotic evil. Its holy symbol is fire, and its favored weapon is the dire flail.
The domains associated with the Burning Hate are Animal, Chaos, Death, Destruction, Dragon, Evil, Fire, Greed, Madness, Orc, Pestilence, Scalykind, Spider, Strength, War.
Followers of the Burning Hate are frequently barbarians, sorcerers, kobold paragons (web enhancement), orc paragons (Unearthed Arcana), combat trapsmiths (Complete Scoundrel), talons of Tiamat (Draconomicon), unholy ravagers of Tiamat (Draconomicon), orc warlords (Races of Faerun), eyes of Gruumsh (Complete Warrior), blesseds of Gruumsh (Dragon Compendium), ocular adepts (Faiths and Pantheons), ravagers (Complete Warrior), frenzied berserkers (Complete Warrior), or Vermin Lords (Book of Vile Darkness).

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So that was fun. Now Inglip! Already mostly done, just have to add in a touch of Blibdoolpoolp:


Inglip
Inglip, an eldritch abomination from beyond time and space, is thought to be older and mightier than the traditional “gods”. It is respected, though not exactly worshiped, by some aboleths, mind flayers, grell, and kuo-toas.
Priests of Inglip are called gropagas, and the church itself is referred to as dectrip.
Inglip is neutral evil, and its holy symbol is the weedaula.
Inglip's favored weapon is the falchion.
Clerics of Inglip may choose from the Destiny, Dream, Fate, Madness, Oracle, Slime, Sloth, and Time domains.
Followers of Inglip are frequently psions, alienists (Complete Arcane), archivists (Heroes of Horror), fleshwarpers (Lords of Madness), or cancer mages (Book of Vile Darkness), inquisitors of the drowning goddess (Underdark), or sea mother whips (Underdark).

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And, last but not least, the shiny golden god of heroism!

What shall his name be? Hm. Unfortunately, "platinum" just translates to "platinum" or something very similar in almost every language. I think I want this guy to be named in Celestial. Which is to say, Latin, but with "-iel" on the end. Oo, "numen", a local god. Source of our word "numinous". Numiel?

Alternate etymology: trim "platinum" enough that it's not recognizably "platinum". Can't trim the end, "plat" sticks out like a sore thumb, so trim the beginning. "Num" isn't much of a thing, but Numiel still sounds okay.

Numiel

Numiel is the god of valor, heroism, justice, metallic dragons, and the sun. He appears as a platinum warrior with a slightly draconic mien, longsword in hand, invariably smiting something. He's popular in Romus, Shell, and among adventurers. His archnemesis is Mirk, god of darkness and the undead, though he is none too fond of Quasxthe or the Burning Hate, either.
Numiel is Lawful Good, and his holy symbol is a gleaming golden longsword.
His favored weapon is the longsword.
Numiel's domains are Courage, Destruction, Dragon, Glory, Good, Healing, Inquisition, Law, Nobility, Protection, Purification, Strength, Sun, and War.
Followers of Numiel are frequently paladins, platinum knights (Draconomicon), sacred warders of Bahamut Draconomicon), vassals of Bahamut (Book of Exalted Deeds), shining blades of Heironeous (Complete Divine), justiciars (Complete Warrior), consecrated harriers (Complete Divine), warpriests (Complete Divine), pious templars (Complete Divine), or reaping maulers (Complete Warrior), radiant servants of Pelor (Complete Divine), or church inquisitors (Complete Divine).

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Now, finishing touches? Let's make sure every domain is associated with a deity (other than polytheism). (I won't go back and add these to the above summaries, but I'll fix them in the final product.) Aaand... we're good.

Custom Reincarnate Tables 3: Oozes

If you are looking for (or wish to return to) the central list of my updated Reincarnate tables, click here.

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Roll 1d200.

Dice	Creature	Src
1-8	Aballin	MoFae-11
9-11	Arcane Ooze	MM3-9
12-16	Black Pudding	MM-201
17-27	Bloodbloater	FFolio-16
28-32	Bloodfire Ooze	MM4-18
33	Bone Ooze	MM2-36
34-39	Brine Ooze	SandS-178
40-42	Cesspit Ooze	CtyS-128
43-47	Conflagration Ooze	MM3-31
48-50	Corrupture	MM4-36
51-57	Dissolution Ooze	MoI-172
58-59	Ethereal Ooze	FFolio-63
60	Flesh Jelly	MM2-104
61-70	Flotsam Ooze	FFolio-16
71-79	Gelatinous Cube	MM-201
80	Genius Loci	ELHb-190
81-88	Graveyard Sludge	MM5-72
89-96	Gray Ooze	MM-201
97-103	Lava Ooze	SandS-178
104-114	Living Burning Hands	EbCS-293
115-119	Living Cloudkill	EbCS-293
120-126	Ochre Jelly	MM-201
127-133	Reason Stealer	MM2-178
134-139	Reekmurk	FFolio-16
140-145	Shadow Jelly	PlnrHb-129
146-152	Snowflake Ooze	MM3-161
153-160	Summoning Ooze	MM3-169
161	Teratomorph	MM2-194
162-165	Void Ooze	PlnrHb-133
166-171	White Pudding	FrostB-147
172-177	Magical Beast	reroll
178-183	Outsider	reroll
184-189	Monstrous Humanoid	reroll
190-195	Undead	reroll
196-200	Other	reroll