There can only be ONE !! Pantheon that is.

Jokes aside. Has anyone done a Scion game centered around a single Pantheon ?
I'm thinking of doing so, possibly the Greek or Norse gods. I know alot about each mythology wise. My players (all of them) only know those two in the slightest. The rest are complete unknowns to the players. So they avoid them.

I think its quite workable in Scion.  Greek lends itself to the most PC flexibility, given Arete, but Ragnarok has a LOT of good info for playing Aesir, and once you have it and the others you have 20 potential divine parents for the Aesir before having to do houseruling, 15 for the Dodekatheon (counting Quirinius and assuming Caligula is currupted or monster chow).

Baron Samedi:

I think its quite workable in Scion.  Greek lends itself to the most PC flexibility, given Arete, but Ragnarok has a LOT of good info for playing Aesir, and once you have it and the others you have 20 potential divine parents for the Aesir before having to do houseruling, 15 for the Dodekatheon (counting Quirinius and assuming Caligula is currupted or monster chow).

I agree. My Companion and Ragnarok books arrive Friday occording to UPS. Cannot wait to read them. I think I'll start with the Companion first, then read Ragnarok. I gotta a feeling after Ragnarok I'll be influenanced towards Aesir big time.

I do wish my group knew more about the Japanese Gods though. One player knows alittle about Radian and thats it. He has asked to use him for a parent in a future game, he is also the player who knows alittle about the Norse, just a little. The other players are complete Greek guys. All they know is Greek stuff. A few of them has tired using the Aesir, but they admit they know jack besides the Ragnarok death fight battle and what they have read in the Thor Comics. LOL.

Sidenote.
A Japanese Scion based on the (guyver anime character) Aptom, would be about Evolving (Animal *all*), and would be a cool idea for a Scion to work towards ingame. Even if its just the look of the character.
www.freewebs.com/archanfel/New%20Picture.png
http://guyver-world.ru/pics/neil-rowlands/manga/big/aptom-omegablast-new.jpg
http://i305.photobucket.com/albums/nn237/iamrhaza1734/GYVR-Official%20Art/Aptom-NewForm.jpg
http://maxfactoryguyver.blogspot.com/2008/07/guyver-figures-max-factory-bio-fighter.html

ABERRANT_SCION:

I agree. My Companion and Ragnarok books arrive Friday occording to UPS. Cannot wait to read them. I think I'll start with the Companion first, then read Ragnarok. I gotta a feeling after Ragnarok I'll be influenanced towards Aesir big time.

Cool. Quirinus is in the back, one of the few good things from the last section. I am sure you will enjoy it. :)

As a note...The author of Ragnarok has a wicked sense of humor, and several references to the Thor comic exist, including in the name of a Boon, and two different sidebars.  The annotated Ragnarok can be found at Jack's Blog here.

ABERRANT_SCION:

I do wish my group knew more about the Japanese Gods though. One player knows alittle about Radian and thats it. He has asked to use him for a parent in a future game, he is also the player who knows alittle about the Norse, just a little. The other players are complete Greek guys. All they know is Greek stuff. A few of them has tired using the Aesir, but they admit they know jack besides the Ragnarok death fight battle and what they have read in the Thor Comics. LOL.

OK, well here is some info for you, maybe will be of use
Obakemono Project is chock full of Japanese critters friendly and otherwise.  You can see many applied here to Scion

Here is Wikipedia's article on Japanese Mythology, as good a starting off point as any.

I am runing a chronicle set in the VII century b.c. centred around the Greek Pantheon. As said it's a pantheon that works very good and me as my players have very good knowledge about ancient greece and greek mythology so it seemed to me a very good idea.

I don't go with Caligula (well the guy isn't even born yet) nor with Quirinus (or better Qvjrjnvs), I don't think it goes with the flavour and can't fit it in the greek mythology.

On the other hand it has been pretty easy to pull more greek gods (Rainfall helped me to kick start it with a couple) and play them out in the intrigues and plots that are characteristic to them. Although my players all come from the twelve olympians the plots revolve around many other gods. There's just so much material and possibilities!

I'd also like to make an all Aesir/Vanir chronicle, though my knowledge isn't as good as the Greek it's still pretty good. The other pantheons would be difficult since I have a general idea and good notions about each one but not enough.

@ Baron Samedi = Awesome. I'm a huge fan of the Thor comics myself. I even have all the Thunderstrike comics (geek). I must admit I am a bigger fan of the Eric Masterson Thor II and Thunderstrike versions of the comic hero. After reading Scion, first thing that poped up was Eric Masterson being a Scion and thrust into the Aesir Pantheon. "The World Still Needs Heroes."
Oh Thanks for the link to the Japanese stuff. I can use it to great effect, but my players wont. They dont do much reading if you know what I mean.

@ Prophet = The Norse myths are pretty easy to get into. And the good thing about them is you can usually find several versions of each story being told. So this leaves alot of room for STs to pick and choose which to use, or to make their own version of said story. Even then it may not be what really happened. Which is great.
Tales of the greek heroes and gods are pretty uniformed and alike. This leaves less room to make up your own stuff without Players getting alittle ticked-off at changeing things around.

ABERRANT_SCION:

@ Baron Samedi = Awesome. I'm a huge fan of the Thor comics myself. I even have all the Thunderstrike comics (geek). I must admit I am a bigger fan of the Eric Masterson Thor II and Thunderstrike versions of the comic hero. After reading Scion, first thing that poped up was Eric Masterson being a Scion and thrust into the Aesir Pantheon. "The World Still Needs Heroes."
Oh Thanks for the link to the Japanese stuff. I can use it to great effect, but my players wont. They dont do much reading if you know what I mean.

No problem. Obakemono is cool for the pictures, though Tengu took several down in order to replace them with actual Japanese art, which I don't like as much as her work.  Maybe if you tell your players it has pictures that will help. Or have them meet a Shirime.

ABERRANT_SCION:

This leaves less room to make up your own stuff without Players getting alittle ticked-off at changeing things around.

You are right in the whole comment, on this part I quoted, since I'm puting the setting on the VII century b.c. my idea with that was for the players to start the Second Age of Heroes. Having them defining what means to be a greek hero (well the scion of Ares is thracian) and molding the chronicles acordingly. How this will reach our History books no one knows, perhaps no one knows what really was like back the :) I still think I have room to do whatever I want without causing any "antagonism". And if I wasn't afraid my players would read this I'd explain a bit further, but lets say I'm planing a world shaking event that has never happened (at least anyone knows of) but like I said, no one really knows so it will be played out and then I can decide if in the year 2009 people know about or don't. It was so long ago one just can't be sure what's true. My biggest concern is to keep the flavour and stay true to the Greek Gods.

Prophet:

ABERRANT_SCION:

This leaves less room to make up your own stuff without Players getting alittle ticked-off at changeing things around.

You are right in the whole comment, on this part I quoted, since I'm puting the setting on the VII century b.c. my idea with that was for the players to start the Second Age of Heroes. Having them defining what means to be a greek hero (well the scion of Ares is thracian) and molding the chronicles acordingly. How this will reach our History books no one knows, perhaps no one knows what really was like back the :) I still think I have room to do whatever I want without causing any "antagonism". And if I wasn't afraid my players would read this I'd explain a bit further, but lets say I'm planing a world shaking event that has never happened (at least anyone knows of) but like I said, no one really knows so it will be played out and then I can decide if in the year 2009 people know about or don't. It was so long ago one just can't be sure what's true. My biggest concern is to keep the flavour and stay true to the Greek Gods.

Well I would write it off as "Big Shattering World Event that Noone knew Happened" deal. Or better yet someone else got the credit for some reason. Maybe fate itself decided noone should know what happened. Who knows.

ABERRANT_SCION:

Or better yet someone else got the credit for some reason.

I like the way you think! This would tie them to the rivals and enact the Dodekatheon Virtue Vengeance! The Moirae move in mysterious ways... :)

I once did an entire chronicle on the eygptians and the fight of Apep and Horus' 4 sons (+1) It was alot of fun but took alot of research into the mythology.

Thats part of the fun.

I agree with those who say that it is workable. I've wanted to do an all-Deva campaign for awhile, with each story was a new incarnation. So the Legendary Heroes would be Heroes during the Second World War, demigods during the modern era and in about twenty years or so, Gods at the end of the Kali Yuga. However, I'd have to convince the others to play it and then I'd have to research the Hindu religion more than I really have time to and I'd have to lead it.

It seems a great idea Folly! I'm running with the greeks as stated, but the Deva, the Amatsukami, the Psejedet and obviously the Aesir/Vanir are also great pantheons for running solo. I think the irish and the Celestial Bureaucracy also have great potential!

Folly:

I agree with those who say that it is workable. I've wanted to do an all-Deva campaign for awhile, with each story was a new incarnation. So the Legendary Heroes would be Heroes during the Second World War, demigods during the modern era and in about twenty years or so, Gods at the end of the Kali Yuga. However, I'd have to convince the others to play it and then I'd have to research the Hindu religion more than I really have time to and I'd have to lead it.

I've done something kinda like that with vampire, having about 2 years (real time) in the Victorian Era, 2 years in the 1920s, 3 years modern day. It worked pretty well. I just really tried to play up each epoch's differences.  You may need people to invest in Extended Youth though.