Pyramid Review
Greek Gods (for d20 System)
by Steven Creech and Kevin Reusch
Published by Bastion Press
48-page color PDF; $5.99
Greek Gods is the first of a three-part series of PDF d20 System sourcebooks adapting real world mythological pantheons to d20 System mechanics. This book focuses on presenting deific portfolios and full avatar stat blocks, as well as presenting some new domains, spells, monsters, and NPC heroes from Greek mythology.
The book does not provide an in-depth coverage of the stories about the gods or the Greek cosmology, but focuses on putting useable numbers to the major personalities of Greek myths. Myths and stories are referenced in individual god entries sufficiently to establish the authors are familiar with the legends, and to provide some flavor for a DM to use in roleplaying the gods or their followers.
Avatars are presented as thoughts the gods project onto the material world so that they can interact with it. These thought projections take the form of 20th-level characters with lots of powerful magic items, including weapons more powerful than mortals can craft, one unique artifact, starting abilities of all 18s, and usually with maximum hit points. They also have a number of divine immunities such as to all drains and mind-affecting abilities. If they have a class that casts spells, they automatically know every spell on their spell lists. However, despite these potent abilities they are all still listed as CR 20. Being the d20 System, these stat blocks . . .
This article originally appeared in the second volume of Pyramid. See the current Pyramid website for more information.
Article publication date: August 15, 2003
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