Orcus - which portfolios and domains?

[Ghostwind]

In one of my campaigns, Orcus is a demonic deity that grants spells and has a divine rank. In researching the various Wotc and Necromancer books, I can't find anything that would give me a good idea as to what Portfolio and Domains to assign the big boy. Here's what I've come up with so far:

Portfolio: Chaos, demons, evil, revenge, undeath
Domains: Chaos, Darkness, Demonic, Destruction, Evil, Greed, Trickery, Undead
Divine Rank: 8

Any other portfolios or domains that should be included or removed? Thoughts?

Edit: Increased Divine Rank from 3 to 8. Added demons, undeath and revenge to portfolio. Added Darkness and Greed to domains.

 

[Desdichado]

Those sound good. I wish I had it in front of me, but the Book of Fiends, or it's predecessor Armies of the Abyss had domains for Orcus, and an entire pantheon of demon lords, for that matter.

 

[Ghostwind]

Yep. Got the domains listed from BoF covered.

 

[Voadam]

Why destruction? I see trickery from what I've heard about his machinations in the planescape modules, undeath is his thing, and chaos and evil fall into the demonic aspects, but I'm not sure why destruction would be a particular domain of the obese goat.

 

[MonsterMash]

What about Death domain as he is a lord of the undead?

 

[Nightfall]

Destruction comes from ToH, which lists similiar ones to that Steve is posting.

Me, I'd keep Greed or at least add it to him. He is, after all, greedy for life. That or Gluttony.

(Check an issue of Dragon that listed the seven deadly sins.)

Otherwise I have no beef with your orcus save making him DvR 8 as he's deserving of Lesser god status IMHO/IMC.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

In one of my campaigns, Orcus is a demonic deity that grants spells and has a divine rank. In researching the various Wotc and Necromancer books, I can't find anything that would give me a good idea as to what Portfolio and Domains to assign the big boy.

I'm at work now, but I thought BoVD and LM both explicitly laid this out.

 

[Nightfall]

Just cause WotC SAYS this is Orcus doesn't mean it really is.

I mean if that were the case they'd be FAR more constistent with him than have been. I site FR Orcus versus 3.5 Orcus versus BoVD.

My money, give me the combined might of ToH Orcus and BoVD Orcus, toss in some domains from the Seven deadly sins, Book of Fiends and probably one other source.

That's my Orcus.

 

[BOZ]

What about Death domain as he is a lord of the undead?

that ought to be the one he has no matter what.

 

[Desdichado]

Well, don't forget that Death and Undeath are two different things. If he's got the Undeath domain, I don't see why he needs Death. In fact, I don't think it fits his profile very well anyway.