[Old Scratch]

For me personally, this book wasn't supposed to be about the gods and their stat blocks. It was supposed to be about the players and their world. Clerics in D&D were so generic and bland that I thought this book was there to give provide a background of religion and context and a personal relationship with the divine.

This book didn't do that. Instead of giving context and meaning to the character's lives, it gave them a god to kill.

In that respect, this book is a piece of shit. It sucks. It offered me little in actual play. It's an abomination that never should have been.

However, despite that I still treasure my own worn down copy of it and in the event of a fire, it would be one of the first books I would snatch from the flames.

I can't explain it, the book is wrong... wrong... wrong... but it has a bit of charm about it that still wins me over despite it being everything I didn't want it to be.