A lesser god takes the role of a greater god for a day

>A lesser god takes the role of a greater god for a day

Depending on how you make your fluff, it can overwhelm the god. Since gods normally derive their power (and then give it out) from worshipers, the lesser god would have to provide power for many more worshipers than usual while receiving none for himself since they're not worshiping HIM.
This could screw him over, and maybe even make him call on adventurers for help. I'm taking this as a campaign idea.

>Worshippers pray for an end to their famine
>Lesser God blesses their crops
>Wheat is now growing out of control, consuming forests with their growth
>Biggest patches grow sentient and become Wheat golems
>Lesser God calls in party for help

I could see it. Would be rather funny, honestly.

What does /ourguy/ do?

In general, he would need help. And this could lead to some amazing adventures.

Da shit is that

Kobold god

Oh.
RIP

well he'd probably lack a few of the domains he'd need to properly do it, maybe try and get "creative"...

I like this thread. It saddens me that it's kinda dying, cause this is a unique idea which I've already begun to write a full campaign on.

>God of Victory takes the day off
>Gives the job of empowering a general to the God of Chance
>General loses due to a 1 in a million chance event occurring

Just for a day?

>Deity of War, Smithing and Destruction becomes the Deity of Healing for a day.
>Doesn't know how to treat wounds, or know hows an actual healing spell works for their new followers.
>Proceeds to "heal" wounds by turning the cuts and wounds into iron.
>People are walking around with full iron arms, legs, and etc.

>Hey general, since when was our victory based on chance.
>Never. Something's fucky.
And so began the quest of multiple advisers and salty soldiers checking up on the god of victory.

So Omnissiah?

I would assume that he would be borrowing the greater god's power. That makes it less of a question of "does he have the power" and more "does he know how to use the power", the latter of which is what leads to when he doesn't know his own (temporary) strength.

Eh. That's now the GM's decision. However, both could lead to a VERY interesting quest for adventurers, either cleaning up or providing for the god. The party could even hold worshipers of either the replaced god as supervisors or as worshipers of the temporary god who are desperately trying to help out as being one of the only followers.

Bump for awesome ideas being given and potential awesome ideas being contributed later.

>They summon the god of victory
>The god of chance appears instead, wearing the god of victory's armor
>"Hello I am Victor the god of victory how can I help you be victorious?"

>God of Hunt needs to fill in for goddess of harvest
>Creates wheat wolves for people to hunt
>"I did good, right, honey?"

Teleservice.
Freakin' teleservice.
The amazing comedy that can happen.

Kurtulmak, obviously.

>Aphrodite takes the place of Zeus as a Sky"father"/supreme god.
Massive, MASSIVE orgy all thorough the Hellada

Every year the Goddess of the Harvest goes into hibernation in the fall and life does not return until the Spring.

Wishing to help her out and win favor in the mortal races, the Trickster god attempts to cast a spell to keep her awake the whole year long.

This unfortauntely did the opposite and it is now the 5th year of no harvest. In desperation the Trickster god is now pretending to be the new harvest god.

In normal circumstances the mortals would wonder why strawberries are growing to the size of a watermelon, wheat growing into the earth and not out and why apples suddenly make one hallucinate for hours on end. However the people were too starved to care and gave sacrifices and prayers of thanks.

The blessings have not permanently cemented his new role as the Trickster Harvest God.

In desperation he seeks out the PCs

>Two extremely similar gods are constantly mixed up for one another
>They decide to switch places for fun
>After a while, they decide to stay switched so they get the right people worshipping them

Fuck up some goddamn shitty gnomes

>Implying she isn't just tagging out for Dad

You clearly don't know who Zeus is

Kek.

No, really.

Bump

What comic?

Stick Gods

>Anubis
>Lesser
Dude was one of the most important fuckers in that pantheon. Everyone thinks of him in the black doing the judgement and being all psychopomp but the black was also for the fact that his job was running the goddamn Nile. The rich silt left after floods is why a golden jackal is depicted as dark. Though be assured he was also in gold, delivering babies, teaching mortals, being pretty important to agriculture, running messages between Ra and Osiris' family, making sure priests weren't lying, pretty much inventing most of the magic system mortals could utilize with his main man Thoth, and being the one level headed bastard in arguments between the gods so he was often the mediator.

But who in this scenario is he taking over for? His half-brother Horus? He'd be really good at that for a day actually, since he ruled in the Duat before letting his father Osiris take that throne after he helped resurrect him which freed him up to do more mortal shit.

Everything would probably go better than normal for the day, though there'd be nothing born that day and the Nile would be unchecked but its only a day. Only issue would be if Set came demanding the throne which is primarily why Horus has it since he could be a physical threat to Set if need be but mostly won by super gay semen guile. Still, Anubis could probably ask Ra for a hand there since Ra's pretty much the closest thing Set has to a friend which would stall for time till they have to go guard the solar barge and Horus' day off is finished.

I mean, Anubis arguably should've had that throne in the first place as the first son of Osiris but let his half-bro take it because fuck dealing with only the pharoh, Anubis loved everyone.

Though I think of it a bit longer, Anubis might have been able to take Set in a fight or at least it'd fuck them both up enough to discourage it because the winner'd get fucked by Apep. Anubis was the one defending Isis while Set was hunting them after all. Which is both a statement of loyalty to his adopted mom and Osiris but also that it was a legitimate fighting chance.

>Since gods normally derive their power (and then give it out) from worshipers
They don't, This trope is dumb

That myth is kinda screwy because Anubis was a older deity than Osiris.

Also Set had every right to be mad and do the shit he did.

Isis stole the name of Ra so Osiris could be king, despite Set being the one holding back the giant Snake devil god everyday. Then his sister-wife goes screw Osiris and probably have Anubis with him. Then he competes with his nephew who cheats to win in every single competition. Then Horus gets seduced and uses magic and jizzed in his salad, cheating yet fucking again.

It's hilarious how Isis reacts to discovering Horus got seduced.

>watermelon sized strawberries
Sign me the fuck up.

The Pantheon had been around so long and has seen so much variation in the stories based on which regime was having the priesthood tell it that tyring to compare the power levels of the Gods is kind of pointless. Yes Anubis has skinned Set alive in some tellings, but Set himself has sometimes been credited with finally slaying Apep and multiple Pharaohs held Set to be their true patron. Every time a foreign nation conquered Egypt that can be interpreted as Set winning over the Pharoah's Gods.

Besides Anubis is literally a bastard, even if he is a cool guy.

Sitcom based on the Egyptian pantheon when?!? Gonna go read up on this now, shit's cash.

REMOVE GNOME

I don't know if America is ready for a sitcom involving that much gay sex

>Aphrodite
>A member of the Olympians
>Lesser God

When you hold enough sway over society that the government lets hot women go free for their crimes cause they assume they must be your prophet or a demigod you are not a "Lesser God"

True fact: Thoth was the ultimate playa.
He fucked damn near every goddess and come back for more while Ma'at (his wife and also a co-worker of Anubis) enjoyed the ibis dick so much it drew endless jealousy.

I also like that Anubis x Bastet was one of the most enduring noncanon slashfics of all time. The dog and cat being fuckbuddies and the myths on who was the mother of Anubis' kids is rarely cemented but its always a cough and a glance towards the three cat ladies (though one of the cats was sometimes a water buffalo).

>Goddess of the Sun takes a vacation
>leaves the Goddess of Love in charge of Sun-shit for the duration
>It's constantly a romantic sunset at All Times in All Places
>animals begin losing their minds
>shepherds begin rioting
>chaos ensues

It's 2017, shit-pharaoh

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Why are people still so interested in past mythologies? You'd think they'd be a subject left to academia and cultural curiosities.

the pic in the OP is depicting Wepwawet

>tfw Anubis was resurrected as the god of furry porn

>tfw he's not the god of theriocephaly porn

Of course the God of the dead and preserving the dead was hot on the kitty cat Goddesses. Cats protected souls and tombs from negative spirts and decay.

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Yeah I guess that's pretty much why Set is depicted as the potential father of half of the deities in the pantheon at some point or another.

Paradoxically his apparent infertility is sometimes one of the factors that drove Nephtys to seek Osiris when Set was away from home. Or it was inflicted on him when he lost to Horus. Or he was never infertile. Iunno

A religion that was around in one form or another for something like 6k years has a lot of contradictory material, especially seen through a nearly 2k year gap of anyone actually practicing said religion.

Because they're stories that pass the test of time. They were interesting enough to be told since we nearly stopped living in caves. Think about how awesome that is. We've been hearing or reading or thinking and loving these beings, these immortal characters for longer than we could write. Anpu is one of the oldest continous stories ever and his legend is still woven into popular culture.

When humanity fucking dies, a good chunk of our earliest creations will be there with us. Twisted, contradictory, changing, forgotten and reimagined with every generation, with the barest resemblence to what they were but still we call them affectionately by their titles and names.

Nephtys and Osiris are kinda just there and suffer from the weird sexual tension that is there between Isis and Set.

Isis flipping out and cutting off Horus hand because he was seduced by Set was hilarious.

While we're on the topic of Egyptian gods, which of these Gods from the not yet released Egyptian inspired set MtG set Amonkhet corresponds to which Egyptian god?

Looks like Bastet, Thoth, Anubis, Sobek and Apep.

In order, Bastet, Thoth, Sobek, Anubis and Apep.

Big Dick Sobek! Gonna croc niggas left and right!

But Egyptian mythology is unusually stable, like most aspects of their art and culture. New things develop or things change, sure, but for thousands of years of existence, the beginning is surprisingly similar to the end.

>When humanity fucking dies, a good chunk of our earliest creations will be there with us. Twisted, contradictory, changing, forgotten and reimagined with every generation, with the barest resemblence to what they were but still we call them affectionately by their titles and names.

T-that was beutiful user.

I'm pretty sure that the two-pronged spear means that one is Set, not Anubis.

This trope is infinitely better than "haha I'm all powerful for no reason"

Which makes sense because they probably correspond to a color and Set would be the most likely black god.

I get it from the CHAOS view if Sobek's there he's probably gonna be Red (though he could be green - which would let Set be Red and Apep be Black) but man, Set is like the definition of the Red playstyle (HIT IT, HIT IT AGAIN, HIT IT HARDER WITH MOOOOOORE - whether that be himself or foreign armies).

Weird how the Sobek lookalike is the only one who doesn't look like he has a golden mask.

Rumor is the Gods are going to be Shards (WUG, WUB, UBR, BRG, RGW).

That could be neat.

>God of Victory takes the day off
You'd think the haruspex would catch that sort of detail.

that's some real american gods shit right there buddy, I like it

Because almost all stories are based on ones that came before.

Hamlet results in Star Wars.

A writer benefits greatly from learning as much about everything as possible, and the audience learns what they based it on.

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>No deity wife who changes from a domestic cow goddess of the household to a violent lioness war goddess.

Ra and/or Horus or no one is a lucky bastard

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>When you're the God of no fucks given so your wife cheats on you with your brother out of sexual desperation

Dayum

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> God of sex taking Zeus' place.
So nothing changes?

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Doesn't work without the title: Where's Sobek?

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