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Message: <blockquote data-quote="NotAYakk" data-source="post: 8056530" data-attributes="member: 72555">Or rather, when your points in a game are based on what you have bought in the game, not on your unspent points.I get the strategy of "horde points for victory condition", I just don't really like it in my RPG.  I've disliked it ever since I saw it way back in shadowrun karma (which was both hero points and XP; so by doing heroic and risky things, you slow down your character advancement.  Meh.)---Now what I sketched has issues.  The QP are a bit funny money, and don't work well as XP because they are "too big" at demigod level.Manifestation: A manifestation has up to 4 tiers.  Demigods can only create rank 1 manifestations, lesser powers rank 2, powers rank 3 and greater powers rank 4.The QP you need to invest in a manifestation is:Rank 1: 10Rank 2: 30 (or 20 additional)Rank 3: 60 (or 30 additional)Rank 4: 100 (or 40 additional)You can have 1 manifestation, plus 1 per divine level, at a time.  If you go below your divine level in manifestations you lose that divine level.  If this causes your manifestations to be above your rank, each day they have a 1 in 20 chance of degrading.[spoiler]Quadradic here[/spoiler]Divine Rank: each rank of divine (demigod, lesser power, power and greater power) has 5 levels for a total of 20 divine levels.  In order to reach the next level as a divine, you need create a manifestation at the rank appropriate for your new level.  When you do so, one of your existing lower-Rank manifestations also upgrades to your full Rank.[spoiler]Building your power based on your stuff, not on your points, and spend points on stuff.  Story generation[/spoiler]Earning QP: When you earn QP, you halve it for every Rank past Demigod.  So a Rank 4 divine earns QP at 1/8 the rate of a Demigod.  [spoiler]This gives exponentially times quadratically slower progression at higher ranks, and if breaking a manifestation of another divine frees  up the QP, it makes this non-zero-sum.  Where does QP come from?  If there is only a fixed amount, then gods spiral downward in total power over time...[/spoiler]---Now this becomes a game of inventing fun manifestations to have, and giving them 4 ranks based on the tier of god.  An Avatar can be a manifestation, an artifact weapon, a plane, etc.You could also limit the number of manifestations of a given type to your divine rank.  So a demigod can have one artifact weapon, a lesser power 2, a power 3 and a greater power 4.  That would help reduce "manifestation optimization".  Also, as at least some kinds of manifestations aren't on your person, it provides adventure hooks (your manifestation is in danger!)</blockquote>

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