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Post by Admin Pete on Mar 30, 2016 17:55:27 GMT -5
What is your Favorite Mythos/Where do you go for Inspiration first - Please pick up to five of your top Favorites. Please comment and elaborate on your answer if you feel moved to do so.  |
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Post by captaincrumbcake on Mar 30, 2016 22:27:58 GMT -5
I'm still developing deities (and their lack of involvement) in The Lost Lands.
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Post by Vile Traveller on Mar 31, 2016 3:25:38 GMT -5
Mostly Germanic and Norse for me, primarily because of upbringing. I appreciate a lot of other mythologies intellectually, but not viscerally the way I do with those two.
Oh, and one not on the list - Clark Ashton Smith, both Averoigne and Zothique.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 31, 2016 8:18:24 GMT -5
I picked Norse, Celtic, Japanese, Greek and Cthulhu Mythos. I also could've picked Egyptian, Germanic, Chinese, Arthurian, and Judeo-Christian. I should note that not all of these faiths would produce Holy Warriors/Clerics or whatever. Some just have Priests.
Northwind is a world of many faiths, which may cause strife as the world grows.
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Post by hengest on Apr 15, 2016 19:12:54 GMT -5
I feel torn here because those mythoi that are most present now for mining also seem to be the most "grandfathered in" to our culture. In a way, their largeness makes them too familiar or too possibly familiar to be really Unknown. I like the idea of getting into the broken-down culture of a 100-year old Tory in 1800...where had his gods and demons gotten to? Did he feel trapped behind enemy lines forever? Was his heart full of pain? For whom, exactly? I always feel wistful for those gods that are gone without a trace...of course, there's no source material for them. But I find myself trying to follow after them in thought and remake the world they lived in.
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Post by Von on Apr 17, 2016 11:45:28 GMT -5
Of the options you listed: Norse (for the shape of the world and the sparse, economical elegance of the sagas more than for specifics of gods and adventures), Lovecraft and Moorcock.
I am also heavily influenced by Catholicism, particularly the medieval ars moriendi and dualistic heresies, and by the vision of William Blake (as expressed in creations like Urizen and Los and Orc - figures which stand for some aspect of the human soul writ large).
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Post by aldarron on Apr 19, 2016 9:58:22 GMT -5
So I voted "other", and hope that fit best. I use Arneson's First Fantasy Campaign Mythos framework - which is Dark Lords of Chaos vs Greater Gods of Good - much the same as M. A. R. Barkers system, but less specific when it comes to the individual deities. Most of the gods remain unnamed/mysterious, and most clerics follow the collective gods of their alignment rather than being devoted to a specific deity. Likewise, the gods themselves don't usually have specific spheres like "war" or "childbirth" or whatever. They're just gods. The most common chaotic religion is the cult of the Id.
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Post by Hexenritter Verlag on Feb 3, 2018 23:42:21 GMT -5
I am inspired by Sumerian/Babylonian pantheons as I studied it over the last few years & the Chthulhu Mythos as I love the feel of the Great Old Ones vibe. I really love the Greyhawk Flanaess Pantheon, which is part of the reason I like Greyhawk. But ultimately I love crafting my own pantheons drawing inspiration from what I learned of ancient religion & pantheons.
In my fused Flanaess/Blackmoor & Faerun/Known World setting I'll draw from the core 1e pantheons of FR & GH, plus the 3.5 Blackmoor pantheon. But for my Grim Dark home brew the Law vs. Chaos plus Neutrality will play the core paradigm in my design for the religion & the Cthulhu Mythoswill inspire aspects of the Chaos deities.
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Post by mao on Feb 11, 2018 14:43:39 GMT -5
Lovecraft, REH, Rod Serling and Lovecraft, oh did I mention Lovecraft?
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Post by The Master on Feb 11, 2018 14:53:51 GMT -5
I voted for my own unique original home-brewed game. I may post about it one of these days. I call my campaign The Varzakarian Mountains Campaign.
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Post by Warrior Twin Two on Feb 12, 2018 9:40:52 GMT -5
I'm fond of Hyborea.
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Post by True Black Raven on Mar 13, 2018 22:46:40 GMT -5
Refugee's from Atlantis, Mu, Lemuria along with travelers from Hollow Earth.
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Post by Robert the Black on Jun 21, 2018 10:58:37 GMT -5
I can't believe that you left out ERB and all his worlds?!
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Post by mormonyoyoman on Jun 21, 2018 18:17:41 GMT -5
Speaking of which, ERB every time, all the time.
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Post by dilvish on Jun 21, 2018 21:23:29 GMT -5
Speaking of which, ERB every time, all the time. Another vote for ERB. |
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Post by The Bloody Nine on Jun 27, 2018 22:13:43 GMT -5
Speaking of which, ERB every time, all the time. Another vote for ERB. Count me in too for ERB. |
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Post by Yaleric on Jun 29, 2018 20:25:43 GMT -5
Nehwon, Hyborea, Pelluicidar and Barsoom
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Post by Warrior Twin One on Aug 21, 2018 0:05:35 GMT -5
Howard, Leiber and Burroughs, how do you leave off Burroughs?
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Post by Hexenritter Verlag on Aug 21, 2018 0:11:03 GMT -5
Did Burroughs have a mythos/pantheon?
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Post by Warrior Twin One on Aug 21, 2018 0:57:57 GMT -5
Did Burroughs have a mythos/pantheon? I was going with the second part, where do you go for inspiration. |
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Post by Warrior Twin Two on Aug 22, 2018 9:52:43 GMT -5
Did Burroughs have a mythos/pantheon? I was going with the second part, where do you go for inspiration. |
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Post by clooney on May 2, 2022 11:26:53 GMT -5
I mix up Howard and Tolkien, that is what gets my juices flowing.
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Post by Q. F o s t e r on May 2, 2022 11:37:47 GMT -5
Howard and Burroughs, how did you leave off Burroughs?
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Post by Snuffy Smith on May 2, 2022 12:01:04 GMT -5
I like the Egyptian and Babylonians as a basis. it gives you a world with Pyramids and Hanging Gardens.
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Post by Ibizan Zamway on May 2, 2022 12:03:57 GMT -5
Howard, Tolkien and Burroughs and I agree how did you leave out Burroughs, he did a ton of world building.
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Post by nobody on Jun 16, 2022 19:39:28 GMT -5
I can't believe that you left out ERB and all his worlds?! Hyboria and the worlds of ERB. |
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Post by Kujik on Aug 15, 2022 11:38:14 GMT -5
You left out ERB, I love both Barsoom and Pellucidar.
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Post by The Man From Coventry on Aug 17, 2022 16:35:10 GMT -5
Same votes as the other poll, but you left out ERB.
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Post by Morose on Sept 5, 2022 17:55:18 GMT -5
Give me REH and ERB and I am happy.
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Post by Bartholmew Quarrels on Sept 9, 2022 10:07:54 GMT -5
Howard and Burroughs and in that order.
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