by Sidestepper on Tue May 15, 2012 2:48 pm
I thought I'd give this a kick, since I haven't really played much since the GG change and a restoration of the old GG is one of my most desired changes.
I've played around with the new GG, and he kind of works, but in a really weird way. You basically just ignore his strictures against fighting higher level foes and go for the biggest catapults that you can find. This minimizes the amount of piety you lose per level. He seems to want you to only fight weaklings, but there is no boon in the game that is strong enough to compensate for the massive loss of xp that would entail.
I also really, really hate the new theme for GG, and really miss the old "heroic redemption" theme. It was fun. It was a type of heroism that you don't normally see in fantasy games. GG didn't want you to fight unless you couldn't help it, cared about the lives of even the evil monsters, and wanted you to solve conflicts on your own resources. The new GG is a self-righteous coward, basically a Tikki Tokki without the humor and charm.
I don't think swapping GG's piety structure but leaving his boons alone really worked. The tension between Humility/Absolution and his strictures doesn't make any sense. Those boons used to play into his themes very well, but now it feels way off, like Taurog suddenly granting you mana in exchange for attack power, but still getting mad when you use magic. Enlightenment is now completely inaccessible and GG may as well have one less boon for all the good it's going to do the player.
I think the old GG could have worked, he just needed his piety income toned down and there needed to be an on worship effect so that he isn't for 1st level characters only.