by James M. Ward, Robert J. Kuntz
I preferred this book way above Legends and Lord because it contained characters from Call of Cthulu and from Faffrd and the Grey Mouser as well as numerous deities from various regions around the world. When they discarded this book for Legends and Lore, pretty much only the deities from world reli...
D&D game reference material great for adding excitement to the worlds and dungeons you can build. Sure gods don't actually die but you can defeat them and send them temporarily back.
One of the more perused and one of the least used of the many companion books to the Dungeons & Dragons game, Deities & Demigods was definitely one of the most impractical. It gave physical stats to gods and demons that could be fought, but for all intents and purposes, could not be killed. Gods don...
Update 11-Feb-13:Having recently finished The Iliad and The Odyssey - and constantly browsing Graves' The Greek Myths - I was prompted to dig out my copies of Deities & Demigods (both this original edition and the 3rd edition version) and remind myself of how they treated the Olympian mythos.My obse...