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Hey UK, thanks for the quick reply. I gotta ask more questions then... Ah, well, I thought you said something to the effect that normally a pantheon will have one greater god, and the rest will be lessers and intermediates... I thought the intent was that they would remain at that balance of...

So the idea that each pantheon has an intermediate-deity Godslayer, a greater-deity Cosmic Umbilical/megadragon, and an elder one Pantheonic Destroyer, greatly intrigues me. But what about for a pantheon that is not static? Will a freshly ascended pantheon of PCs, who have all become, say...

The most memorable aspect of OD&D immortals rules to me, wasn't the playing of one (they lacked any abilities that seemed particularly interesting to me -- as far as I could tell, all they had were recycled mortal abilities plus antimagic), but the way that demons were statted up as immortals...

Dregoth wanted to become a real god in part because in the context of 2e, the Powers were all-powerful (until they ran into: The Dark Powers, the Black, the Phlogstion, the Lady of Pain... seems like every 2e setting had its own anti-deity gimmick). Orcus wanted to be a god too, even though in...

Hee hee, nah. We usually call tentacle beasts, teaderbeasts, on account of one of my group's absolute favorite NPCs of mine being Teadermin, a friendly vohzd from Vampire the Masquerade (vohzds are like... pseudonatural flesh golems). So we tend to think of them as being friendly critters that...

As to Avangions and Dragon Kings, I personally think their power level is easily that of deities rather than abominations. The power level of a Dragon King or Avangion is utterly insane, and I think that overall, they're the most powerful statted beings in any edition of D&D. That's not me...

The book states that there are already more petitioners of most gods, than the ones that actually manifest. The number of existing petitioners listed is based off the capacity of the deity and his divine realm to sustain their physical forms, not the number of dead mortal followers that god has...

Hey UK! Its good to see a bit of news on the HELIOEDES template, I've been thirsting for that template for literal YEARS! Last fourth of July, I was looking at the fireworks with my girlfriend and said "Hey, those sorta look like Helioedes... " and explained to her what Moonstruck, Starstruck...

Of course, I've also seen (and I'll admit participated in) both in-character and out of character arguments about whether or not druids are required to hate mutants, aberrations, and things of that nature... I favor the interpretation some druids hold in Lords of Madness, that aberrations are...

Hey all! Lest it seem unreasonable, the idea that "green" druids can't use cyberware... remember, they can't even wear METAL ARMOR. These are weird folks. In a sci fi setting, its real simple though -- there's organic tech everywhere in sci fi. Instead of getting a robot arm, they'd probably...

Where/what are these? Or I guess I could search for them myself... Not much. A robot is pretty much a robot. They're mainly just differentiated by size, a la elementals and 3.0 zombies/skeletons, and cannot be made intelligent. (Robots can only be intelligent if they look like living things...

There's a LOT to read through, but I like most of what I've read. However, about Grand creatures... I don't really like the idea that ALL grand creatures have big-n-beefy human arms. (A majestic uber-eagle or -snake just seems silly with big arms sticking out from it imo) So perhaps it could...

I thought I replied to this aeons ago when the world was young, but anyway... I was working on more realistic(?) rules for robots and cyborgs using references to both fd20, IH:B and v5.pdf... I noticed that Fortress Ships (4500 HD) are indeed, coincidentially, of the size suggestions for...

Well, in fd20 terms (which goes by a 0-9 PL, not the... 0-80 PL that UK's cosmology uses) the 30s through now are all PL 5, more or less.

So I've been thinking of this. Should atomic and antimatter weapons be rebalanced to use the same rules as IH? What PL would atomic and antimatter grenades/missiles be possible at? (Other questions, like how to avoid blowing up the user as well, are irrelevant) Presumably, robots, starships...

Howdy. Well, I was of course referring to how you said in IH that atheists turn into elementals when they die... Well, First Ones have one of six dimensional masteries to choose from: Entropy makes them unkillable, Time makes them time travellers, Matter & Thought makes them mostly immune to...

Actually, the arrow of time theory is a good example of this sort of conflict. Entropy forces time to move in one direction, in general and from our perspective, but its a massive leap of faith to assume this is true everywhere ever. In particular, string theory and its required 10-11 dimensions...

Eliminating entropy seems a good idea, except no one's biological or mechanical processes would work anymore, and light and heat wouldn't radiate. A stagnant, dead universe... interesting that the Dimension of Entropy and a universe that had eliminated Entropy resemble each other so. Difference...

Howdy UK. Ahhh okay. It struck me as a bit... bizarre that Lucifer would be confirmed as the deposed rebel angel/leader of devils, but that he'd also be an aspect of Satan, First One of Briah (I think that's the Matter dimension?). Anyway, I'm particularly looking forward to any information...

If you're going with racial gods & portfolios (a la the Elf portfolio), it might be interesting to have the firstborn of each race just be an aspect of a racial god... or perhaps better would be to have them have a soul compact with a given god, that way you have the possibility for fallin' from...