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Tip from a guy who's experienced at making long posts: try to make each post about one individual thing. Your first one, for example, could have been about the supernalforged golem (set), the second about Grand Creatures, and so on. Even if they're stored on your HD as one massive file (and...

Incarnations are just another tier of deity that happens to focus on one Portfolio more than the rest. Any Portfolio is fair game, unless the DM says otherwise. Every PC in my party became an Incarnation eventually, and they all had to pick a Portfolio to do it with- most picked their own custom...

I actually had a dual system in my setting, since I ported my old "10th level spells" from 2nd Edition into 3rd as Ultramagic (among other things, one has to learn individual Ultraspells as feats, and every last one deals ability damage to the caster as part of the casting in addition to...

That was how I read it. I'm thinking that's pretty close to an infinite aspect of reality, so probably Trans. But from a game balance perspective, a nonability really isn't worth anything near that, so probably a lot less- Divine or Cosmic? Dunno.

I don't have my books with me at the moment, so I'm just eyeballing it- but your current version of the template above looks to be roughly around the Hero-Deity level in terms of power- if we assume that two of the Divine Abilities chosen are the "Perfect Mind" and "Perfect Body" ones that grant...

Oh, I know all that. I've read up on modern science extensively. :) The most recent issue of Science News, in fact, has an article reviewing current ideas about "Time's Arrow" and the lack of evidence for it in the theories, and what it all means- mentioning the idea that our universe is a...

I do have ToM, but I haven't made enough of a study of the Shadowcaster to recommend any abilities myself. However, since the class is primarily a caster of spells (the fact that the spells are called something other than "spells" is irrelevant), even if they are (effectively) of variable level...

Well, in the scientific sense, Entropy defines Time. Time's "arrow" is a consequence of entropy and the Second Law of Thermodynamics. UK's separation of them therefore isn't really accurate in the hard-science perspective, so one needs to decide (given that) exactly what Time and Entropy do...

Perhaps more important is, what exactly does this template do, in the "monster theme" sense? I can see that it makes the base creature Undead, and a pretty powerful one at that, but what are these special undead used for? Why does this god create them at all, or more to the point, why are...

Then, I surmise that in your cosmology, that's exactly what the Akashic Records do stand for! :) In my setting, the Akashic Records are a bit bigger than just one game system.

Right. Have Raithe the Dreamer regale you with tales of how much his PC (and, I suspect, the player himself) hated the Phasmalich villain I used in the divine part of the campaign. :)

The answer would depend on precisely which tri-state area you mean- I'm in a tri-state area, being outside Chicago, but not necessarily your tri-state area. :) But as for running games online- been there, done that. The entire game this thread is based on, which ran from April 2001 to January...

It's occurred to me reading through the old logs where a lot of this stuff (particularly those templates) was discussed, that we came up with a lot of ways to use QP for Cool Stuff that should probably be shared. I'll probably add another post at some future point listing those, but before...

The Independent Thought After the party was finished with Fate, the God of Secrets- who had specifically been Seeded by Thought/Madness way back at the start of all this (the other character having been Seeded by Thought/Dream) was determined to follow the Metatron carrier and turn his Seed...

The Fated Emissary The last First One to provide the PCs with a Seed- as with Entropy and Matter, in fact a full Shard- was Fate. The PCs traveled to her cosmos, arriving in the 4th Edition "section" when their spell disgorged them, a fact they swiftly corrected by tearing open a planar hole...

The Karmic Messiah So, after the Goddess of Catastrophe became a Material Nucleus, the guy carrying the Seed of Metatron was determined to prove that Metatron could be cajoled into increasing the "size" of that Seed, so as to turn it into a full Shard template. He started with arguments along...

The Material Nucleus So, having crafted a "Shard template" for Moiranna, which included several Cosmic Abilities (something which alone, in my game, with the one-esoteric rule, was enough to make powergamers salivate), and furthermore included some abilities that players would seriously...

If you like, sure, but what's wrong with working out templates here in the thread? Doing it out in "public" as it were, may benefit others who like the idea, and/or draw suggestions the two of us wouldn't think of.

The Entropic Shard I promised earlier to post the "Favored of the First Ones" templates that came up in my game, but given the experience of the "artifact list" and "Planar Edifices" posts, I'm going to do this list in a piecemeal fashion rather than try to make one post containing all of them...

I did describe it as "appallingly powerful," if you read the post closely. But honestly, what else could one do, with an artifact created by such a great being? It has to be appallingly powerful or it breaks the integrity of the whole setup. Really, in this modern age it sort of leads me to...