[Jason]

Originally Posted by Orlin

Funny you should say that!

I sometimes have a tendency to go overboard with it, but I started this thread based around precisely the link you gave me.

Oops. I do have a tendency to repeat myself.

For what it's worth, I saw a thread on renaming the Djinn Band. Was that you?

I didn't start that thread, but I did toss in a couple suggestions. My favorite remains Se'irim, but I share your concern about renaming things after my players have already started playing. They have enough of a hard time as it is remembering the names and properties of things I didn't change.

The main issue I have with IN (apart from the thought that sometimes it's a tad too bright) is Satan. The one thing I really liked about Demon the Fallen (even if I didn't particularly care for Demon the Fallen itself -- too tragic) was that Satan was...such a character. In some ways, he was more of a character than any of the PC's could ever be. The trouble is, if you humanize and romanticize Satan too much, you risk portraying God like an extremely negligent parent.

I am having a good time dealing with this issue in one of my own campaigns, but to do so, I am skirting pretty far from canon. (Don't read this if you play with me.)

Spoiler:  

Running off ideas I pitched in a couple earlier threads, I'm running a setting in which angels haven't been heard from since the Purity Crusade (which the players know) and "Lucifer" is actually more than one person (which my players are slowly discovering clues of). This gives me the chance to explore multiple interpretations of the personality of "the Devil" – as the Prince of Lies (who's running Hell) vs. the Adversary (who's actually interested in serving some greater good) – and kind leaves open the question of whether "God" even exists at all.