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I'd prefer a single portfolio to limit the application of enhancement to the ability score (no epic buffs, no artifact items, et al) and a double portfolio to penalize the ability checks, but not the actual score. Same net result, no Rain Man effect.

Still, how does crippling a deity's ability score make more sense than capping it off where it stands? I mean, with the template ability score penalties as they are, some deity builds are dead before they hit the ground. How much sense does that make? Why should a design be forced to allocate...

I'd also like to point out that a Greater Deity of (double) Secrets with primarily Sorcerer levels (i.e. minimum Int) is a vegetable, if one works off of TABLE 2-12 and TABLE 2-13. Can't something else be done as a weakness other than such outstanding penalties to ability scores? I like the...

T-minus 120 minutes, UK. How are Portfolios looking?

Does anyone else find it unrealistic that level/HD implies wealth at all? I think that's strange, and outside of building characters at high level I don't think level and wealth should be related at all.

Ohh... well done. I like this idea a lot* *especially with the NG(C)/NE(L) addendum. :)

Update tomorrow, right? I doubt it. I also doubt that it will look like 10 days' worth of work, either. See what you've done to my enthusiasm, UK. :(

So a sorcerer deity with Revenge would be a less-effective spell-caster? I think I'd rather see these template penalties be a matter of inability to increase rather than (up to) -2x divine rank penalty. I mean, for some builds that would reduce a score to less than 1. What the hell's that about?

If skills are Dex, why is it opposed by Luck? It makes no sense. Lucky people aren't be default clumsy, nor vice-versa.

Skills are suddenly Dex? Revenge is Wisdom? I don't think half of these penalties make any sense.

Incomplete sentences are a dime-a-dozen in this text, it seems. Oh, and may I be the first to say BOOKMARKS!

You should think about changing or simply dropping "Verge of Death", since not all people interested in Death are interested in undeath. Assassin gods, for example, shouldn't lose their Con score. Living necromancer gods shouldn't either. Wee Jas would have Death and Magic, but she'd still...

Will Resonance be included in either volume? When you say 'appendices', you mean the sample builds right? How much time do you think you have left on the mechanical (i.e. portfolios, resonance, Chpt. 4 Tables, et al) side of the text before you'd print it out for play at your table? Frankly...

If we could give out medals for delay and disappointment, you'd pull a RotK and pull a clean sweep, UK.

Get used to it. If he were getting paid to do this, he'd have been fired a long time ago... oh, wait...

Dibs on his fonts. :p

Hard to say, but I agree with dante on this one. The templates offer their own balance in their flavor as well as the fact that a considerable amount of their offered power is overshadowed by the stock power of the deity itself. I built an intermediate double-death port god with two avatars...

No problem; I'm sure we're all glad to contribute. Arts: Tough one. Charity: Hmm... Entropy: ? Fertility: Voyeurism anyone? Peace: ? Science: ? Destruction: Immune/reflects disintegration-, destruction-, and inflict/harm-based* spells *or cure/heal if undead. Fear: Immune to fear...

So what's up with that other update? It's going on Monday...

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