Sar wrote:svendre wrote:When worshipping Makhleb:
The spells summon demon and summon greater demon do not result in hostile demons or do the demons become hostile over time.
When worshipping Beogh:
Hostile priests will attempt to smite you, but Beogh will ignore their attempt.
That would result in worse flavor, not better.
Ok, but why do you think so?
My reasoning was, Mak is the god of demons, so if you're in great standing with him then demons in general would regard you slightly better (but not outright hostile ones.), you are a worshipper of *the* demon god after all. I suppose unless you take the stance that Mak wants you to suffer a bit and perhaps die, but that doesn't explain why he heals you then when you kill stuff. Summoning demons to kill stuff should be satisfying his evil nature to begin with. If he's that crazy and chaotic (like Xom) then shouldn't there be a chance of him hurting you instead of healing you occasionally, when you kill something? If demons shouldn't have any loyalty at all, then isn't it poor flavor and inconsistent that the ones summoned via invocations do not ever become hostile?
With Beogh, well pretty much the same thing as ely/tso/zin.. I just find it weird that a god you're worshipping will participate in the attack against you. My understanding of a smite is that the priest is essentially asking the god to put the hurt on the target, but the damage is actually coming from the god. The orc priests you're fighting presumably also worship him right, but they don't like you because they want to be the big cheese messiah. By that same token, why should your own smite work against another follower of Beogh? I can understand if Beogh is a bit evil and views it like - let them kill each other over being my prized messiah, as long as they have the mana and piety to spend.
Anyways, I was just curious - you didn't explain why.