Chaos Gods - forms of worship

From: RolandV <rmv1_at_...>
Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2012 20:06:47 -0000

I apologize in advance if this has been hashed out before, but I'm working on potentially running my first HQ campaign in the near future and want to iron out the areas where my understanding is lacking. I ran a long-running RQ3 campaign using the excellent products from AH and am pretty good on Gloranthan cosmology; where I'm probably lacking is wrapping my head around the HQ versions of things.

My understanding of "worshipped" (if that word can be applied) Chaos entities is that they transgress the boundaries of the three Otherworlds. This would seem to me to make their "worship" resemble the mixed entities presented in Under the Red Moon, where Cacodemon might (for example) have theistic and animistic elements provided to those who draw power from him. While Thed, Bagog, and Malia are probably fully animistic, Vivamort and Thanatar might have theistic, animistic, and sorcerous elements. Does that make sense? Am I way off base?

I'm trying to convert one or two of the Big Bad Guys from my prior campaign to the new edition to surprise a few players who will have played in both.

Roland