Re: Neogi as who's pawns? (lost e-mails)

In <URL:news:local.spelljam> on Sun 09 Jul, Michael Shell wrote:
> Hmmm, Neogi as some sort of drow experiment...what an intriguing idea.
> It would also be an interesting way to have the drow and the neogi
> actually use the same ships. Another way of reconciling Spider Moon
> with mainstream SpellJammer. I think I actually like this idea. How
> much material exists on what sort of religion, if any, that the neogi
> subscribe to? Even if there were evidence to the contrary an individual
> DM might be tempted to stretch the rules so to speak and change the neogi
> deity to Lloth. Quite the notion to wrap your brain around...
>  
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Matt Hoffman <manta928@?????.com>
> To: SPELLJAMMER-L@??????.???????.com
> Sent: Sun, 9 Jul 2006 01:31:14 -0700
> Subject: Re: Neogi as who's pawns? (lost e-mails)
> 
> 
> On Jul 9, 2006, at 1:15 AM, Dreamer wrote: 
>  
> > Drow. 
> > 
> > These don't seem to go spelljamming, but pawns like neogi, who 
> > would automatically consider themselves to be drow property... 
> > 
> > Maybe even if they hadn't met any drow for generations... 
> > 
> > For real fun ensure the neogi can never remember who their real 
> > masters are, just think they are doing things they were ordered 
> > to by drow, because "it seemed a good idea". 
> > 
> > Arcane would quite happily sell Helms to the drow, which they 
> > then provide to their pet neogi? 
> > 
> > 
> > Just a thought... [grin] 
>  
> While this is an interesting theory... 
> A) There are Spelljamming drow :) I forget, offhand, whether the major
> Drow anchorage was in Realmspace or Greyspace, but the Drow do field
> a modest number of ships in the  void. Jade Spider Commandships and
> Monarch class Armadas mostly.

I've seen some SJ settings where "no drow in space" is the rule,
and the IEN swear this is the case.

It depends what sort of game you want to run.


> B) The Neogi do not worship Lolth. If they had been a Drow creation,
> then like everything else the Drow do, there would have been some
> reverence built-in to the race for the Spider Queen. In fact, the
> only published source that mentions Neogi priests or worship at all
> is in the Astromundi cluster, where the Neogi worship the Astromundi
> incarnation of the Egyptian god Set. Also: the Drow would *never* have
> let their creations range so far beyond their control -- it's in the
> Drow nature to keep a close rein on slaves and servitors.

Renegade drow wizard-creators, secretly not very religious,
deliberately avoiding the Lolth connection because of the risk in
revealing the drow connection...

Not sure I agree about the 'drow nature' - they seem to vary
quite a bit.

Also, see "Multi Genesis" post.

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