Menu
News
All News
Dungeons & Dragons
Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition
Pathfinder
Starfinder
Warhammer
2d20 System
Year Zero Engine
Industry News
Reviews
Dragon Reflections
White Dwarf Reflections
Columns
Weekly Digests
Weekly News Digest
Freebies, Sales & Bundles
RPG Print News
RPG Crowdfunding News
Game Content
ENterplanetary DimENsions
Mythological Figures
Opinion
Worlds of Design
Peregrine's Nest
RPG Evolution
Other Columns
From the Freelancing Frontline
Monster ENcyclopedia
WotC/TSR Alumni Look Back
4 Hours w/RSD (Ryan Dancey)
The Road to 3E (Jonathan Tweet)
Greenwood's Realms (Ed Greenwood)
Drawmij's TSR (Jim Ward)
Community
Forums & Topics
Forum List
Latest Posts
Forum list
*Dungeons & Dragons
Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition
D&D Older Editions, OSR, & D&D Variants
*TTRPGs General
*Pathfinder & Starfinder
EN Publishing
*Geek Talk & Media
Search forums
Chat/Discord
Resources
Wiki
Pages
Latest activity
Media
New media
New comments
Search media
Downloads
Latest reviews
Search resources
EN Publishing
Store
EN5ider
Adventures in ZEITGEIST
Awfully Cheerful Engine
What's OLD is NEW
Judge Dredd & The Worlds Of 2000AD
War of the Burning Sky
Level Up: Advanced 5E
Events & Releases
Upcoming Events
Private Events
Featured Events
Socials!
EN Publishing
Twitter
BlueSky
Facebook
Instagram
EN World
BlueSky
YouTube
Facebook
Twitter
Twitch
Podcast
Features
Top 5 RPGs Compiled Charts 2004-Present
Adventure Game Industry Market Research Summary (RPGs) V1.0
Ryan Dancey: Acquiring TSR
Q&A With Gary Gygax
D&D Rules FAQs
TSR, WotC, & Paizo: A Comparative History
D&D Pronunciation Guide
Million Dollar TTRPG Kickstarters
Tabletop RPG Podcast Hall of Fame
Eric Noah's Unofficial D&D 3rd Edition News
D&D in the Mainstream
D&D & RPG History
About Morrus
Log in
Register
What's new
Search
Search
Search titles only
By:
Forums & Topics
Forum List
Latest Posts
Forum list
*Dungeons & Dragons
Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition
D&D Older Editions, OSR, & D&D Variants
*TTRPGs General
*Pathfinder & Starfinder
EN Publishing
*Geek Talk & Media
Search forums
Chat/Discord
Menu
Log in
Register
Install the app
Install
Upgrade your account to a Community Supporter account and remove most of the site ads.
Community
General Tabletop Discussion
*Dungeons & Dragons
Designing my own system; need help thinking of powers granted by deity of love and beauty
JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding.
You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly.
You should upgrade or use an
alternative browser
.
Reply to thread
Message
<blockquote data-quote="steenan" data-source="post: 6371811" data-attributes="member: 23240"><p><strong>Powers thematically centered on a loved person</strong> (probably require some kind of mechanical tracking of who the PC is bound to by love):</p><p>- Get a significant bonus when helping, defending or trying to understand somebody you love</p><p>- Know where a loved person is, their emotional state and general health</p><p>- Travel instantly to a loved person</p><p>- Sacrifice your health to protect a loved one from harm</p><p></p><p><strong>Powers thematically centered on beauty and love as an emotion</strong>:</p><p>- Make yourself divinely beautiful to fascinate or scare others</p><p>- Make others fall in love with you, as a powerful charm effect</p><p>- Make somebody fall in love with another person you choose</p><p>- Make love the dominant emotion around you to make people interact peacefully instead of fighting</p><p>- Push somebody to violent vengeance, motivated by love </p><p></p><p><strong>Powers thematically centered on sex and sexual pleasure</strong>:</p><p>- Daze somebody (or even knock them unconscious) with pleasurable sensations</p><p>- Make your caress so pleasurable that it addicts others</p><p>- Permanently charm (as in "you can't help but feel positive emotions towards me", not "I control you") someone during an intimate situation</p><p>- Read somebody's mind during an intimate situation</p><p>- Temporarily transform the place you're in to be comfortable and fit for romance</p><p></p><p><strong>Powers thematically centered on exotic experiences</strong>:</p><p>- Use alcohol, drugs and similar substances without a risk of poisoning or addiction</p><p>- Cure somebody from addiction</p><p>- Make yourself or other person immune to exhaustion, pain and minor injuries</p><p>- Share other person's sensations or share your sensations with others</p><p>- Read other person's dreams and fantasies</p><p>- Enter and shape somebody's dream</p><p>- Project your own or other person's fantasies as an illusory effect</p><p>- Transform yourself into somebody your target lusts for</p><p>- Transform yourself into an exotic form with no combat application</p><p></p><p><strong>Powers thematically centered on love as a destiny</strong>:</p><p>- Destine two people to be together, bound by love. It won't force them to anything, but will make all events that can push them together more likely and weaken everything that separates them.</p><p>- Make existing love between two people a divine force that mortals can't stop. Everything that aims to destroy this love becomes much harder to do.</p><p>- Make a vow of love divinely binding and bring a terrible curse on whomever breaks it.</p><p></p><p><strong>Powers thematically centered on taking away goddess' gifts</strong>:</p><p>- Curse somebody to become ugly</p><p>- Curse somebody to become impotent and unable to feel sexual pleasure</p><p>- Curse somebody to be unable to love and care for others</p><p>- Curse somebody so that nobody can love them</p><p></p><p>I'm not sure if all the powers fit your goddess' concept, but I hope that's enough to choose from. <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=";)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="steenan, post: 6371811, member: 23240"] [B]Powers thematically centered on a loved person[/B] (probably require some kind of mechanical tracking of who the PC is bound to by love): - Get a significant bonus when helping, defending or trying to understand somebody you love - Know where a loved person is, their emotional state and general health - Travel instantly to a loved person - Sacrifice your health to protect a loved one from harm [B]Powers thematically centered on beauty and love as an emotion[/B]: - Make yourself divinely beautiful to fascinate or scare others - Make others fall in love with you, as a powerful charm effect - Make somebody fall in love with another person you choose - Make love the dominant emotion around you to make people interact peacefully instead of fighting - Push somebody to violent vengeance, motivated by love [B]Powers thematically centered on sex and sexual pleasure[/B]: - Daze somebody (or even knock them unconscious) with pleasurable sensations - Make your caress so pleasurable that it addicts others - Permanently charm (as in "you can't help but feel positive emotions towards me", not "I control you") someone during an intimate situation - Read somebody's mind during an intimate situation - Temporarily transform the place you're in to be comfortable and fit for romance [B]Powers thematically centered on exotic experiences[/B]: - Use alcohol, drugs and similar substances without a risk of poisoning or addiction - Cure somebody from addiction - Make yourself or other person immune to exhaustion, pain and minor injuries - Share other person's sensations or share your sensations with others - Read other person's dreams and fantasies - Enter and shape somebody's dream - Project your own or other person's fantasies as an illusory effect - Transform yourself into somebody your target lusts for - Transform yourself into an exotic form with no combat application [B]Powers thematically centered on love as a destiny[/B]: - Destine two people to be together, bound by love. It won't force them to anything, but will make all events that can push them together more likely and weaken everything that separates them. - Make existing love between two people a divine force that mortals can't stop. Everything that aims to destroy this love becomes much harder to do. - Make a vow of love divinely binding and bring a terrible curse on whomever breaks it. [B]Powers thematically centered on taking away goddess' gifts[/B]: - Curse somebody to become ugly - Curse somebody to become impotent and unable to feel sexual pleasure - Curse somebody to be unable to love and care for others - Curse somebody so that nobody can love them I'm not sure if all the powers fit your goddess' concept, but I hope that's enough to choose from. ;) [/QUOTE]
Insert quotes…
Verification
Post reply
Community
General Tabletop Discussion
*Dungeons & Dragons
Designing my own system; need help thinking of powers granted by deity of love and beauty
Top