GOD RULES: Player's Guide (5e) Previews/Discussion

Upper_Krust · Apr 10, 2026

The latest update is a brief preview of the Epic Spells...also check out the Kickstarter update for a Competition.

Epic Spell Preview

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ApollyonFall · Apr 10, 2026

The Dress definitely gives the pages a grand godlike feel to them. Can't wait to see what some of the higher level spells can do.

Upper_Krust · Saturday at 4:16 PM

ApollyonFall said:
The Dress definitely gives the pages a grand godlike feel to them. Can't wait to see what some of the higher level spells can do.

Hey Apollyon buddy. Some crazy ones, they get meta in the high 40's. My two favourites are a 16th level spell and a 52nd level spell. But lots of cool ones.

GreatestHonor · Sunday at 5:22 AM

I’m designing a Titan similar to this idea, and it made me wonder the ultimate outcome of it. What DR would you make Yggdrasil awakened as a treat-like? I figure it would be below an Aeon, but I could be wrong.

Looking forward to getting the book!

Upper_Krust · Sunday at 9:20 AM

GreatestHonor said:
I’m designing a Titan similar to this idea, and it made me wonder the ultimate outcome of it. What DR would you make Yggdrasil awakened as a treat-like? I figure it would be below an Aeon, but I could be wrong.

Well thematically, Yggrasil (in my kosmology) represents the brain of the aeon/sentient universe and linked to Hyperspace - with branches a bit like nerve endings. Full Aeons (Divine Rank 22) would be CR 100. Demiurges (partial Aeons) 88-96.

So for an awakened Yggdrasil, likely something in around Divine Rank 15-18. If I had to narrow it down, Divine Rank 17 Challenge Rating 80...but I might change my mind on that slightly if I ever put it in a book.

GreatestHonor said:
Looking forward to getting the book!

Thanks for the support amigo.

Really just busting to get it all over the finish line and see what people think...and also crack on with the rest of the books.

ArcanistDragonborn · 2026-04-16T18:09:22+0100

Hey U_K! I'm wondering, is the Beast Tide spell inspired by xianxia/xuanhuan novels?

-Arcane

Upper_Krust · 2026-04-16T19:51:35+0100

ArcanistDragonborn said:
Hey U_K!

Hey Arcanist amigo!

ArcanistDragonborn said:
I'm wondering, is the Beast Tide spell inspired by xianxia/xuanhuan novels?

Not as far as I know, I just brainstormed hundreds of spell names, then whittled the numbers down so I had at least 10-15 epic spells of Levels 10-20 for each caster class. That's one for the Druid class.

So any similarity to existing spells is purely coincidental.

But now you have me interested in those novels. What can you tell me about their 'Beast Tide'?

ArcanistDragonborn · 2026-04-17T00:44:22+0100

Upper_Krust said:
Hey Arcanist amigo!

Not as far as I know, I just brainstormed hundreds of spell names, then whittled the numbers down so I had at least 10-15 epic spells of Levels 10-20 for each caster class. That's one for the Druid class.

So any similarity to existing spells is purely coincidental.

But now you have me interested in those novels. What can you tell me about their 'Beast Tide'?

Well, on a very basic level, in a lot of Xianxia/Xuanhuan novels, Moshou or spirit beasts can often cultivate like human cultivators, and in some of the novels a regular threat is that of a huge swarm of hundreds of thousands of beasts rampaging through everything in their path, though depending on the exact novel beast tides can either be non-existent or very different from the baseline I've described.