Deities & Demigods (third printing, 128 pages)
Deities and Demigods provides the Dungeon Master with gods, heroes and monster from myth, fiction and legend for use in rounding out an advanced D&D campaign.
This book is the third printing with 128 pages.
Printing Information
The printing descriptions below treat both manuals as simply different printings of the same book (which they are).
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First (1980): Entitled "Deities & Demigods"; cover artwork by Erol Otus. Wizard logo. Contains 17 pantheons, including the Chaosium-copyrighted Cthulhu and Melnibonean mythoi. Chaosium is not thanked for these mythoi on the bottom of page 4. ISBN on back cover lower left and on spine. 144 pages. (Thanks to James Kirby for help with this info).
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Second: Entitled "Deities & Demigods"; cover artwork by Erol Otus. Wizard logo. Contains 17 pantheons, including the Chaosium-copyrighted Cthulhu and Melnibonean mythoi. Chaosium is thanked for these mythoi on the bottom of page 4, with a line reading "Special thanks are also given to Chaosium, Inc. for permission to use the material found in the Cthulhu Mythos and the Melnibonean Mythos." ISBN on back cover lower left and on spine. 144 pages.
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Third: Entitled "Deities & Demigods"; cover artwork by Erol Otus. Wizard logo. Contains only 15 pantheons (the Cthulhu and Melnibone mythoi have been removed), but the back cover of the manual still states "seventeen pantheons". Chaosium is still thanked for them on page 4. ISBN on back cover lower left and on spine. 128 pages.
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Fourth (1981): Entitled "Deities & Demigods"; cover artwork by Erol Otus. TSR Face logo. Contains 15 pantheons. Colors are slightly shifted towards blue, as compared with the purples of the first three printings (especially near the top of the cover). Back of manual correctly states "fifteen pantheons", but the Chaosium credit on page 4 is still there. ISBN and Product number on back cover lower left and on spine. (Thanks to Scott Griffin for this info).
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Fourth Plus: Entitled "Deities & Demigods"; cover artwork by Erol Otus. TSR Face logo. Contains 15 pantheons. Colors are slightly shifted towards blue, as compared with the purples of the first three printings (especially near the top of the cover). Back of manual correctly states "fifteen pantheons", and the Chaosium credit has now been removed from the bottom of page 4. ISBN and Product number on back cover lower left and on spine. (Thanks to Kurt Lupinsky for much of this info and the scan).
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Fifth (1984): Retitled "Legends & Lore"; artwork by Jeff Easley (now with an orange spine). Credits on bottom of front cover are two lines. Contents identical to Fourth Plus print. (Thanks to John McCarthy for help with this info).
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Sixth (1987): Credits on bottom of front cover have now been combined onto one line. States "6th Printing, December 1987" on copyright page. Otherwise identical to Fifth print. (Thanks to Scott Fayer for this info).
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Seventh (1988): States "7th Printing, April 1988" on copyright page. Otherwise identical to Sixth print. (Thanks to Rick Blumer and Michael Deaton for this info).
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Eighth (1990): States "8th Printing, April 1990" on copyright page. Otherwise identical to Sixth print. (Thanks to Jason Parise for this info).