MCD's latest Flee Mortals, Creature Pack fleshes out humans and Lizardfolk pretty damn well. Love it!! ...... but I was left wanting a pantheon of gods for each group. But fear not, Zak S has just dropped the sickest God Generator that Ive come across! A little mix and match and boom!! Instant Gods with grit!
I did a test run for both a human god and lizardfolk god and was pleasantly surprised at the outcome and depth after a few rolls on roughly half a dozen well-planned tables. In short summary, you make a combination of d100, d20 and d10 rolls (occasionally d4 times for each) to establish your God's base form, gender, age, body type, physical traits, unnatural physical traits, if any, and anything that your god carries /accompanies it and your God's Domain (which includes spells for clerics)
There is also a table for your God's/followers taboos which adds some real color for your players and world building. That being said.......
My first creation was a god intended to be worshipped by humans and came out as a Stag Demon in humanoid form but with the head of a stag. It was an adult female with unusually dense, curly, coarse, rust colored hair; no eyes, a tail, wings, a full left leg (I imagined it with hoof) and a right leg sheared off at about knee level. (I improvised the amputation as I rolled a "no right leg") and a chain/manacle secured to the left leg but dragging and bloody on the right side where a leg once existed.
She carries a javelin in her right hand which she uses as a counterbalance / cane to her shorn leg. (I'll add the stats to a javelin befitting a God later!)
Her domains are Wisdom (pairs well with her having no eyes (blind sage trope and all)) which grants the spells: bookspeak, detect magic and remove fear; and the domain of Wrath/Suffering (which fits well with the whole severed leg/empty manacle thing!) which grants the spell: cause/inflict light wounds
As for the flavor.... she was/is entangled with another god romantically, is a parent to another god, sits atop a throne of scorched wood, is always fighting a (all?) chimeras. Taboo-wise, followers must only use pointed weapons (again nice tie-in to the javelin) cannot eat any form of wild berries and must bow to all foes before attacking or face her wrath... or at least her disdain.
As a first run, I thought the god came out awesome! I will probably use her for clerics, hunters and rangers of a small enclave of MCD-spec'd humans isolated by time and distance in a backwoods corner of almost any adventure setting; or, if a player is looking for a unique type of cleric with unique god.... but I could just as easily user her for a big-city paladin! The God Creator also lays the groundwork for other gods in a pantheon already creating links and relationships. I've coined this goddess The Scorched Antler of the Grove (mainly on account of her throne) but I'll easily come up with a backstory now that the basic Goddess tent stakes are in the ground.
I only wish I had an inkling of artistic ability to sketch her out in visual form!
God Creator available at Zak Smith is creating Game stuff | Patreon
Flee Mortals! was available by Kickstarter only by MCD.
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