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Message: <blockquote data-quote="dave2008" data-source="post: 8443815" data-attributes="member: 83242">I'm really stretching the idea that this is "5e" the further along I go.  It is really something I am not worried about. There will definitely be power level creep, that is kinda the point.I disagree with you their.  The "Spheres" in BECMI really have nothing in common with "Spheres of Power."  Perhaps you didn't play the "I" in BECMI, but the "Spheres" had very little mechanical footprint (and even less so with the later revisions). I have renamed them Authorities because I am taking the original concept and expanding / changing it a bit.  I think there will be some similarities with both the original "Spheres" and "Spheres of Power," but there are significant differences too. The current concept of Authority is both a path and a power, but I am still working on the details.  However, it is something like:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Like a class that you progress through and get certain authority features as you level up.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">It is an "easy" button. You can use your authority to do basically anything within your range. But you can only do this a set number of times - ever. If a player uses its authority, the DM should simple say: OK, that is what happens (with some boundaries with respect to other exalted and your Authority). The player basically takes "authority" from the DM when they do this  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Using authority, similar to power combat in BECMI, happens outside of the initiative order and is always adjudicated first</li> </ul>What a god is or isn't is not strictly defined IRL.  They can be anything from the omnipotent Christian "God" to the intelligent spirit beast from Princess Mononoke. So there is no need to move away from "gods," it is just how do you want to define them.  For Ascension, they are somewhere in between. Starting out as something similar to power spirit beasts and ending up something closer to omnipotence. In reality that is what I am doing. I am pretty sure the "5e" tag I originally put on this thread will not be accurate when it is all done.Which picture? I originally started this project as a Kickstarter and commissioned a good bit of art. So some of the art in this thread unique that I commissioned or created myself.</blockquote>

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