Alter Reality Salient Divine Ability

[Robbert Raets]

Okay, so I've been designing gawds. So Alter Reality is basically snap your fingers and get the equivalent of a Maximized Wish spell. Compared to this, Divine Creation and Create Greater Object seem pretty weak, especially since they have long rest requirements.

Am I missing something or are these gawdly powers somehow broken?

 

[ruleslawyer]

It's difficult to argue that gods can be "broken."

That said, certain SDAs are just too good, IMHO, because they make other SDAs and class levels sorta irrelevant. Alter Reality is one of these. A deity with no spellcasting levels and AR is effectively just as good a spellcaster as one with serious spellcasting ability and AR. That strikes me as a bit muddled.

Other SDAs I don't like:

-Annihilating Strike: Any deity with this can kill pretty much any other deity of lower rank, since the save DCs forced by a typical melee-oriented deity's attacks will be high in the extreme.

-Avatar: It's a pantheon for free! Seriously, why ever waste the DvR to create proxies when you can have so many copies of yourself for no real effort?

 

[Robbert Raets]

All true. Also, a lot of the 'better' SDA's rely on the Cha 29 prereq., like Avatar, Alter Reality, Possess Mortal. Do fighter-gawds have any chance at all?

Any suggestions as to how one could fix this? (As far as Uber-Beings can be fixed, anyway...)