In the D&D games I used to play in back in high school, there was a standing rule that if you called a god's name often enough on the Outer Planes, they could hear it and might show up to both a) tell you to shut up, and b) unleash their holy wrath upon you. This cropped up a lot when people would say, "Oh, the hell with it!" Hel (one L) is the Norse goddess of death. She never actually showed up, mostly because my fellow gamers and I became very well-acquainted with the follow-up phrase: "I'm saying that Out of Character! I'm saying that Out of Character!"
See you all next time, when we find out what happens when you tick off the God of the Dwarves!
Take care,
~Rob
He seems a bit tall to be a Dwarf god.
This may be the quit your complaining and suck it up speech if she’s lucky. It could also be the this is what’s going on and you’re the best candidate your generation has to offer. I wonder if she’ll get the recipe for Holy Ale. The ale made from holy water and other fine ingredients.
No, that’s about the right size there, Marcus. Dwarf gods are Dwarfs writ large. Or drawn large, in this case. ^_^
It’s much the same with Human gods, who are often small squabbling children writ large. (I think I got this observation from Turtledove. Gerin the Fox, maybe.)
This is in contrast to Halfling gods, who are about Halfling size, which is the best size to be. Just ask any Halfling.
OK, how really pissed is she? She might be respectful, but she still might give him an earful. But do remember, not all DI is good.
True enough. But I trust deities of good alignment to be of good alignment for the most part, and if she makes a good case then Morridin will probably cut her some slack and, at worse, show her why he has a good point or two as well. Then again, being surprised while in the midst of tantrum mode probably does bad things to a person’s ability to make a good case.
Back in the 90’s, my first D&D game had a guy who was playing a cleric. He was always changing his deity: the Great Weasel, the great chicken. etc. Finally we asked him why (more along the lines of DUDE WTF?!?!) He told us it was because his god was this great pudding like creature. So we started calling it the Great Pudding. That got us into trouble because anyone who said “The great Pudding” was soon struck by lightning ( or singed pretty good.) So we started saying it backwards : The Great Gniddup. That was worse! To this day, 20 plus years later, still the best game I’ve ever played!
I played a paladin in a game where we were using critical hit/fumble tables. During battle, I managed to cut off my head with my own hand-and-a-half bastard sword. This was three ones in a row, and I used others’ dice after rolling the first one. Epic, epic fumble.
So someone gets the idea that they should pray to her deity, and the game master said, “You got a 1 percent chance. If I roll a double zero, he appears.” So he rolls the dice, we all look, and we start screaming, because double zero!
The deity sticks my character’s head back on, gives her a good lecture about being more careful, and geases her for a quest for him. And she lived pretty happily ever after.