Comments on: Bow Before The Great Pumpkin

By: LS

LS — Wed, 31 Oct 2012 16:18:59 +0000

I did receive it. I’ll take a look at it as soon as I have some time to spare from my day job. I’m excited to see what you came up with.

By: Jeff H.

Jeff H. — Wed, 31 Oct 2012 16:02:13 +0000

That there is an awesome and healthy way to look at it. But yes, I have returned your toy with an accessory. :D (assuming it didn’t wind up in a spam folder XD)

I’ll definitely be sure to keep sharing my thoughts then, ’cause about half of my workday any given day is spent working on autopilot while I think about this sort of stuff.

By: LS

LS — Wed, 31 Oct 2012 15:57:20 +0000

If I didn’t want other people to take my ideas and use them for their own creative endeavors, I wouldn’t post my ideas on the Internet.

Having someone add to the idea and share it with me is always a special treat, though.

By: Jeff H.

Jeff H. — Wed, 31 Oct 2012 15:22:26 +0000

Yeah that happens. I’m not an idiot I swear! I’m just finishing up its backstory portion then I’ll send it off to you.

Looking back, it seems that sometimes I take an idea and run away with it, like a child stealing a toy from another one. At least I bring it back with the proper accessories? :p

By: LS

LS — Wed, 31 Oct 2012 15:11:57 +0000

You can find my email address under “Contact Me.” There’s a simple test to check if you’re human.

I’d give it to you directly, but I’ve already had some significant problems with spam bots trolling the site looking for email addresses.

By: Jeff H.

Jeff H. — Wed, 31 Oct 2012 14:46:49 +0000

So, LS. I may have gone a bit overboard and possibly statted out the Great Pumpkin’s favourite champion. How would I go about submitting the document to you, or should I just post him here? I got into a bit of a Halloween groove and my group, while awesome, didn’t want to derail Rise of the Runelords for a one-off goblin game for Halloween fun. >.>

By: LS

LS — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 21:30:48 +0000

That is precisely why I chose spiders. A+! Assassin Vines are also fantastic idea. I was trying to think of a good plant monster, but none were coming to mind. But Assassin Vines are perfect.

This deity’s champion would, of course, be a headless horseman with a pumpkin resting on his shoulders.

By: Jeff H.

Jeff H. — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 20:09:47 +0000

True, but the disctinction there would be that Gourd Golems were naturally occuring manifestations of the Great Pumpkin’s will on the Prime Material Plane, where Gourd Guardians are specifically constructed to protect an area. Perhaps an unhallowed pumpkin field or some such.

I’d have thought that creeping plant monsters like Assassin Vines (specialized to be Assassin Pumpkin Vines of course) and other gourd/squash based monsters. Spiders make sense though, given that they’re the natural predator of many things that would harm a pumpkin patch, such as parasitic insects and (in the case of bigger spiders) human children. Plus they’re very sneaky.

What would this deity’s champion be, LS?

By: LS

LS — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 20:02:29 +0000

Gourd Golem is also alliterative, though! =P

Gourd Golems appear a little similar to The Great Pumpkin, and his followers sometimes craft such Golems because of this. Aside from appearance, however, they do not have much in common.

The favored servants of the Great Pumpkin would probably be spiders. I dunno.

By: Jeff H.

Jeff H. — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 17:05:08 +0000

Well that was an excellent read. Very nice spin on the old Charlie Brown ‘myth’ of the Great Pumpkin.

So would followers of The Grin in the Dark typically protect their hidden enclaves with pumpkin golems? (I’ve taken to calling them Gourd Guardians but I have a thing for alliteration in naming.) Or would that be perhaps too obvious for this hidden god of trickery?