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10-22-2003, 11:00 PM #11
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I have not read much of Deities and Demigods, so this is mostly ad-hoc.
The statement about Nasri slowing becoming a death goddess could be explained this way.
She has slowly saved her energy and is using it to expand her portfolio. Or is it that as she has the Khinasi as followers she is slowly becoming a Greater Goddess?
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10-23-2003, 01:15 AM #12
now to matain one Priest or Cleric, the god has to fill his cup
this is not done in the way thet the god gets the Rp and then gives it to the Cleric.
it is done by linking the cleric direcly to the fait of the people
in order for this link, the cleric needs to be blooded, if the cleric is not blooded, the god has to grant his cleric some blood, this is not common, for making a cleric with 1 point of blood woul lesser the god by 1 point. and therefore a wery expensive gift for the god. So Its much better just to wait for the next blodded person to show up to grant her the power.
Im not so wery fond of the system im Deities and Demigods. The blood system rules.
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10-23-2003, 02:00 AM #13
one thing.
You dont need lodes of levels in order to become a god. you only need a kick as blood.
well, how do we handle "Cuiraecen" was he not a god when he was just a 1st lv figther ? (note, Iv never seen what clases he has)
ofcours he was a god, but also a 1st lv figther.
I thinking, how do we handle the demiplains of the gods afterlife, well at least the gods resting place. Dos the god automaticly create his plane simply by begin, then it shapes it selfe afther the characteristics of the god, and is realy part of the god. or is it a external creation.
can Cuiraecen call on his long dead heroes to figth in epic wars. or cant he.
what if a god dies, what hapen to his plain, and the people thet are in it?
time in the relams of gods must be somehow slower then on the prime. but even thow the god can read his messages from his worshipers, if his power is set up to recive such messages.
take the "Divine rank" system and convert it to blood system.
having the only thing conectin thows sytems begin the rules to convert betvine the sytems.
how powerfull do you have to be to be able to do things as a Demigod (1–5)
when are you forced to stop ruling your holdings and go be a god.
Im thinking, how did Haelyn become a god?
was it becose of his love of Nesirie thet he went to the realms of gods and left his holdings behind.
I would say, he has a position opening, and he had already woued thet he would serve his gods course and continue it with all the power awailable.
Do you only need blood to become a god? isint the gorgon then on a good way to become a god? or is he already a Quasi-deity ???
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10-23-2003, 02:09 AM #14
it has usualy been the way with many gods, thet you sould only pray to one at a time. and the longer you prayed to a one god the better.
sometimes the use of praying to gods were only used to fogus your own energys. take what each god has to offer, and be strong.
like taking all the free gifts thet the salesmen is giving you then close the dor when he starts his sale speach.
how to handle this.
and the thing with divisions within churches. the norhten temple vs. the southen, while thay are both praying to the same god, but using difrent teachings.
way would the god not simply come down to clarify things a bit.
or is this division his own doing, he migth even be experementing with difrent philosophy, and alowing people to have difrent ways of thinking.
Now if one of the temples goes to work agenst the way of the god, thay can siply be taken out, by some wariors. Fx, if there is a Quasi-deity coming to begin within one of the relams, taking the worship to him self, then he could be viewed as a enemy, unless he sets himselfe directly under some god, to serve only him. and becomes a vassal to him.
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10-23-2003, 02:10 AM #15
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10-23-2003, 01:19 PM #16
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10-23-2003, 01:29 PM #17Originally posted by irdeggman+Oct 21 2003, 04:36 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (irdeggman @ Oct 21 2003, 04:36 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin--kari@Oct 21 2003, 09:48 AM
Im thinking about, how to build a little campage, where the gods can be Pc's as well as any regents.
what can a god benifit from having followers. How sould tows rules work. what seremonys sould there be to gain acsess to the energy in the harts of people thet fule the powers of the god, how can a god grant spells, would there be a limit on how many clerics one god can have depending on his mana pool. granting a cleric acsess to higer level spells migth drain the mana pool of the god, and therefore not every cleric has acsess all of the time. and sometimes the manapool is emty.
me like to play a god
would be nice to have some discussion on this topic.
Yeah, that's a good book. You even find assention rules for powerful PC's. But one thing you must imagine: You have to be about 30th character level to think of becoming a god. Most deities have 50 to 70 HD.
So playing to become a deity is possible IMO, but you play nearly 20 years to reach your goal...May Khirdai always bless your sword and his lightning struck your enemies!
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10-23-2003, 01:41 PM #18
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Originally posted by Ariadne+Oct 23 2003, 02:19 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (Ariadne @ Oct 23 2003, 02:19 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin--kari@Oct 22 2003, 01:21 PM
I would say thet Cuiraecen can borrow power from his father. as any cleric can. lol...* Or even his mother.
power comes from the teple holdings, Then the Clerics tap directly to the god's essencs, making there relationship wery close.
Now Cuiraecen is the son of
Haelyn and Nesirie, but as with any birth of a blodded one, he sould have average blood of both his parents.
As clerics can tap the essence of there god, so can Cuiraecen tap into Haelyn essence.
But as any child wants to be able to suport him selfe and become independent, so dos Cuiraecen. and therefore he founded his teples, well so do some wice man clame things are.
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10-23-2003, 11:09 PM #19
At 03:19 PM 10/23/2003 +0200, Ariadne wrote:
>Originally Posted by kari,Oct 22 2003, 01:21 PM
> OK, and where does Haelyn borrow his power from?
When it comes to relationships between the gods, I don`t think they really
do "borrow" from one another per se. It is possible to extrapolate on the
domain level system of Vassalage, however, to a sort of divine level of
play. Since Cuiraecen is the herald of Haelyn he may have some sort of
godly version of that relationship.... Not having a Liege in the
Vassal-Liege sense, Haelyn probably doesn`t borrow power from anywhere,
unless one is going to posit some godly singularity or some other higher
level of deity.
Haelyn`s power is probably derived from worship, the existence of
organizations that substantiate the "Lawmaker" aspect of his portfolio and
his role as an air god. He would then, derive Divinity Points (or whatever
one wants to call the divine equivalent of regency) from the existence of
law holdings, temples dedicated to his worship and a sort of source-like
"holding" based on the natural environment.
Gary
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10-24-2003, 10:43 AM #20
would you count law, temple and source holdings for Haelyn ?
the more trade and monny like god would perhaps count guild and temple holdings.
or should all gods only count there temple holdings?
counting more then only the temple holdings would be a nice way to count worshipers thet are not part of a Temple.
But then the Holding sould be set to send the worship to a sertan god, (thet can take it thow) Haelyn would not benifit from guild holdings.
then I would think of the temple as some sort of sending harbour of godly power.
not all gods can take power directly from his followers. some realy need a phisical temple, with a holy mark, and blesings of the grounds.
So there could be a god thet only benifits from source holdings, and has no temples, thet god would need to conect directly to his followers to use there worship.
Vecna in Grayhawk used to be a King, a regent, and was abe to create artifacts, and use the worship of his people for spiffy things. as he gaind power, he was able to have some clerics using the worship.
not all worship has to be the same, like in the goblin relams, a sacrifice will give the god more power then regular worship.
How to mesure fear. ? Some gods gain power from the fear and horror. but Im not sure how thet could be represented.
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