![]() "Black Pete" was probably the source of the "coal in bad children's stockings" myth. Originally, that was meant to frighten unruly children as an omen that "Black Pete" was about to "get them" that is, Black Pete was "the Boogeyman", and the earliest creators in history of our modern day Santa myth (mostly advertisers who wanted to sell CocaCola, and advertisers who wanted to sell retail goods by early 20th century department stores), created the "coal in your stocking" idea in place of the scarier, psychologically traumatizing "Black Pete" idea from European cultural history. )Īnyway, the childish part of me has always worshipped good old Santa (or Saint Nicholas, or Sinterklaas, or Father Christmas, or Dickens' "Ghost of Christmas Present") as a god, which led me to want to play clerics and mages (and druids) in fantasy games. ![]() So, which deity in the FR corresponds? If the deity of home, hearth, and safe warmth for children is missing in FR, then I think that's an oversight on Ed Greenwood's wow, thanks, friend, she sounds like my kind of gal. Now, if only I had ever heard of her before, or she were included in any of our FR games (BG, NWN 1-2). It's interesting to me that my values in real life correspond to halfling and dwarf values, but I am just below being defined as a human "giant" at 6'4" and 300 pounds in real life, such that I have trouble identifying with either of those "races". ![]() I usually try to be some kind of Gandalfian cleric or mage in my games who has a soft spot in my heart for the dwarves and halflings.
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