So I am creating a character for a new campaign a friend is running. I decided I wanted to play a cleric of the Twilight domain, and thinking about the description of the domain made me think of Morpheus from Neil Gaiman's The Sandman. What gods, especially within the new release of Theros (our likely setting) strike you as a good match for a similar style or feeling. Ny friend running the campaign hasn't read The Sandman before and I'm trying to give him good guidance for thematically appropriate stuff already existing in D&D.
I've spent a surprising amount of time thinking about porting Dream into 5e. I think Morpheus would be a great deity, or a Warlock patron. Since the Endless aren't really gods but avatars of a universal concept, I could see it going either way. Also, he has three relics that easily fit in; the helmet, the ruby, and the sand.
There are a number of aspects of Dream that fit with other D&D entities. The Traveler as portrayed in CR works well. It's a trickster entity that forms abnormally close relationships with mortals, as Dream occasionally does. Dream also has good relations with the faerie court, who are more or less the fey court in D&D. He has relations with the lords of hell, but those are more mixed. The Dreaming is also a good fit for an entire plane of existence, with Through the Looking Glass style craziness.
I like many of the same aspects. My difficulty is trying to give a relatively new DM a feel for things to use as a starting point in his campaign without dropping a few hundred pages of reading and many long hours of pondering into his lap. I feel like taking up so much of his preparation time and consideration would be a disservice to the other players in the campaign.
Hopefully someone on here will have some good ideas for similar existing gods and materials he can start from and we can build towards a fiull import of others players are as interested in it.
I've spent a surprising amount of time thinking about porting Dream into 5e. I think Morpheus would be a great deity, or a Warlock patron. Since the Endless aren't really gods but avatars of a universal concept, I could see it going either way. Also, he has three relics that easily fit in; the helmet, the ruby, and the sand.
There are a number of aspects of Dream that fit with other D&D entities. The Traveler as portrayed in CR works well. It's a trickster entity that forms abnormally close relationships with mortals, as Dream occasionally does. Dream also has good relations with the faerie court, who are more or less the fey court in D&D. He has relations with the lords of hell, but those are more mixed. The Dreaming is also a good fit for an entire plane of existence, with Through the Looking Glass style craziness.
"Avatars of universal concepts" is as valid a divine model as any. Very valid as Gods. My campaigns use that model of divine structure. The creation myth starts out with 'The One' and nothing else in existence. The One for reasons known only to The One makes 'The Other.' They are too evenly balanced against each other and disagree a lot so they each make additional lesser beings, who themselves (individually or in combination) make still lesser beings, on down the line, with each newly created being among 'The Ones' or 'The Others' bringing into existence the aspect of what we know today as reality. Everything in existence is similarly part of this hierarchical structure, with power being more and more diffused on down the line. As one looks higher in the hierarchy, one finds beings that are ever more defined by their roles and restricted by their definition. Lower down, there is ever more free will, until reaching levels so low where there is not enough power to sustain free thought. So any given pebble on the beach may technically have greater free will than a typical human, but they do not have the thought capacity for that to matter, nor the mobility to do anything with it even if they had the thought capacity.
No argument here. My point is not to limit the Endless to one of clerics or warlocks, but to provide arguments for why they could be both or either, whatever the campaign demands.
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So I am creating a character for a new campaign a friend is running. I decided I wanted to play a cleric of the Twilight domain, and thinking about the description of the domain made me think of Morpheus from Neil Gaiman's The Sandman. What gods, especially within the new release of Theros (our likely setting) strike you as a good match for a similar style or feeling. Ny friend running the campaign hasn't read The Sandman before and I'm trying to give him good guidance for thematically appropriate stuff already existing in D&D.
Thanks for any and all advice on the topic.
I've spent a surprising amount of time thinking about porting Dream into 5e. I think Morpheus would be a great deity, or a Warlock patron. Since the Endless aren't really gods but avatars of a universal concept, I could see it going either way. Also, he has three relics that easily fit in; the helmet, the ruby, and the sand.
There are a number of aspects of Dream that fit with other D&D entities. The Traveler as portrayed in CR works well. It's a trickster entity that forms abnormally close relationships with mortals, as Dream occasionally does. Dream also has good relations with the faerie court, who are more or less the fey court in D&D. He has relations with the lords of hell, but those are more mixed. The Dreaming is also a good fit for an entire plane of existence, with Through the Looking Glass style craziness.
I like many of the same aspects. My difficulty is trying to give a relatively new DM a feel for things to use as a starting point in his campaign without dropping a few hundred pages of reading and many long hours of pondering into his lap. I feel like taking up so much of his preparation time and consideration would be a disservice to the other players in the campaign.
Hopefully someone on here will have some good ideas for similar existing gods and materials he can start from and we can build towards a fiull import of others players are as interested in it.
Yeah, I think the Traveler is probably your best bet for in-game stuff. I can't think of another mythological analogue.
No argument here. My point is not to limit the Endless to one of clerics or warlocks, but to provide arguments for why they could be both or either, whatever the campaign demands.