In some cases, especially with the Cthulhu Mythos and Nehwon Mythos, all that would be required is letting the judge know where to find official conversions (or, in some cases, unofficial ones). In other cases, though, significant research might apply, and the result might differ wildly from the presentation in the original work.
The real question is: Would this be worth doing?
The Divinities & Cults series, by OSRDAN Games, will at least get you started if you are interested in using most of the pantheons described in Deities & Demigods. A fuller conversion would include canticles and unique spells, which is a lot more work than I currently feel like doing, Some of these gods would also definitely be patrons, and deserve full patron write-ups for campaign play. If I undertook this project, it would be just the monsters!
By my reckoning that would mean:
Indigenous American Mythos
- Thunder Bird
Babylonian Mythos
- Dahak
Celtic Mythos
- The Wild Hunt
- The Master of the Hunt
- The Pack of the Wild Hunt
Chinese Mythos
- Ma Yuan
- Spirits of the Air
Cthulhu Mythos
- Byakhee
- Cthuga's Flame Creature
- Deep Ones
- Great Race
- Mi-Go
- Primordial One
- Shoggoth
Egyptian Mythos
- Apep
- Flame Snake
- Phoenix
- Minions of Set
Finnish Mythos
- Air Maiden
Greek Mythos
- The White Eagle of Zeus
- Antaeus
- Atlas
- Cerberus
- Coeus
- Crius
- Cyclops, Greater
- Cyclops, Lesser
- Enceladus
- Epimetheus
- Furies
- Hecatoncheire
- Kronos
- Oceanus
- Prometheus
Indian Mythos
- Indra's Elephant
- Peacock of Karttikeya
- Marut
- Garuda
- Yama's Water Buffalo
Melnibonéan Mythos
- Assassinator of the Gods
- Clakar
- Dharzi Hunting Dog
- Dragons of Melnibone
- Elenoin
- Grahluk
- Kelmain
- Mist Giant
- Mordagz
- Myyrrhn
- Nihrain Horse
- Oonai
- Quaolnargn
- Vampire Trees
- Vulture Lion
Nehwon Mythos
- Astral Wolf
- Behemoth
- Bird of Tyaa
- Cold Woman
- Devourer
- Ghoul, Nehwon
- Leviathan
- Snow Serpent
- Spider, Salt
- Water Cobra
Norse Mythos
- Hugin and Munin
- Sleipner
- Freke and Gere
- Fenris Wolf
- Fossergrim
- Blodug-Hofi
- Gullin-Bursti
- Garm
- Jormungandr
- Norns
- Tanngrisner and Tanngjost
- Valkyries
When you look at that list, above, is there anything on it that you would actually use in your campaign? Or, I should say, anything that hasn't already been converted? Most, if not all, of the Cthulhu creatures can be found in the Goodman Games yearbook for 2017, and multiple alternate write-ups exist, most notably in Weird Frontiers. The creatures given statistics in DCC Lankhmar are extremely comprehensive. I am sure that there would be some demand for the Melnibonéan creatures at least, but (as with the Nehwon creatures I converted for Goodman Games and the Cthulhu creatures I converted for Stiff Whiskers), I would want to go back to the original source material to ensure that I did a good conversion.
Alternatively, I can lay off conversions for a while.
What do you think?
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