Talk:PPhobos (3.5e Deity)

I did a thing.

I did a thing. Hopefully this will receive enough love to start appearing in dozens of different D&D campaigns.

Unfortunately I will have to remove most of the images, since they are under copyright. Marasmusine (talk) 01:26, 9 August 2016 (MDT)

As for the content itself, forgive me for saying this, but it comes off as being a Mary Sue. PPhobos story is that he just gets more and more powerful and is great at everything. There are no flaws, suffering, relationships or much in the way of personality; and his name looks like an internet handle. Marasmusine (talk) 07:18, 9 August 2016 (MDT)

Well, that's quite a shame. Tell me, if I were to hunt down the copyrights and add them under the image credits, would it be possible to restore these images? Or do I have to wait for weeks/months and see if the artists will expressly give permission when it's entirely possible some of them might not ever respond? TTheDDoctor (talk) 00:44, 27 September 2016 (EST)

And then there's the content critique. I'm not gonna lie, PPhobos's concept was designed more in line with a cosmic horror story than the tale of a typical deity; in fact, PPhobos's concept was supposed to mesh better with the infamous Immortals Handbook than standard D&D content. Fortunately, I was kind enough to include his earlier history, and it's still entirely possible for a D&D campaign to take place when he was using Apotheosis Chrysalis; an overdeity or greater deity could ask some adventurers to interrupt his ascension before he became any more powerful than a lesser deity, which in spite of his overly-munchkined suite of armaments would ensure he couldn't threaten entire pantheons with his powers and plots. The entire reason I didn't go into detail about his personality and flaws was because I approached making a deity like most of the other pages did, describing a brief history of the deity and the different powers and successes that s/he had. Not everyone drew notice to their deity's limitations or intimate details, (or even history, at times) so I trimmed those points out of PPhobos's page to focus on what makes him a deity, how he rose to power, and what powers he has. In hindsight, I'm actually worried the amount of detail I put into describing his achievements and abilities might've puffed him up too much. While he may come off as little more than a Mary Sue character for these reasons, I should point out that the man does have a few noteworthy flaws- he is obsessed with power, for one, and he is also the only deity whose power comes from his avatars rather than his worshipers- this creates some pretty big targets for high-tier adventurers to take down, especially when they're still in suspended animation. If you'd like, I can draw attention to his flaws and personality by making a Weaknesses and Personality section and bring up a few important points that his profile neglected to talk about.

Oh, and on a side note, "PPhobos" is just a stylization he uses. Though this stylization may mirror my username, this is actually because I have a canon that revolves around a group of protagonists who use "champion names" to signify their status. Sometimes they are given these names, but in certain cases- be it through fate or blind luck- a future champion adopts such a stylization as a pen-name, such as in PPhobos's case. For the purposes of the D&D universe, this can be considered little more than a quirk. TTheDDoctor (talk) 00:44, 27 September 2016 (EST)