Divine Leveling

[Nyeshet]

That might, in fact, be the understatement of the year.

PC: I wish I were a god.
DM: Okay.

Wtf?!?

The only solution to this dilemma is retcon.

Not necessarily. I was in a campaign years ago where one of the players wished to be a deity. He didn't specify however, so he became the deity of snails and slugs. Due to the lack of worship in general he didn't gain anything from it except that slugs and snails would never attack or seek to harm him.

The player was okay with this, since he hadn't really expected the wish to be granted. He had jokingly said it to a being that said it was a god of chaos. He hadn't taken the being seriously. It granted various members of the party that spoke with it various things - often slightly offkey (like the wizard that asked to know more spells - and suddenly knew all cantrips - of all spell lists). It seemed to be silly mood the DM was going through, but it was fun. I asked for help fighting undead (being a lower level 3e psion, shaper I think) and my spear was granted the undead bane property. We later found out that all the undead we would be facing in the next town were skeletons, so the property was only half way useful, if you'll excuse the pun.

That was a fun, but odd, campaign, as I recall it. The same player that became the deity of slugs and snails later became a lycanthrope - who turned into a hawk and was harmed by copper and gold instead of silver. He never did learn to control his change as I recall. So he'd wake up in odd places the morning after a full moon and think others had moved him. When he finally realized what was happening he bought himself a silver bird cage for his other form.

 

[Mav]

The whole group is over-powered, and thus, we have been dealing with overpowered creatures. We've still had deaths amongst the group as well as some very close calls. Our level 16 rogue just dealt 235 damage in one full attack round without sneak attack.

With his greatsword of viscious, flaming, lightning, fire surge, and one other skill that gives 2d6, don't recall what it was, he was doing something like 10d6 + 15 per strike... like a fireball per hit... so in the end he did something like 40d6+60. If he was sneak attacking for all of those attacks, he would get an additional 32d6 from the 4 combined attacks in sneak attack damage. That damage output is just insane... I did an empowered discintigrate at level 16 for like 132 points of damage... hardly a fair comparison...

He's just a rogue that bought the right gear.. he's not a DivineRank-0, or anything else... He still puts out some insane damage... Every class has an imbalance if you spec properly.

That above 4 attacks didn't even include an attack from opportunist that he often gets as well. That's another 18d6+15 (with sneak attack.. 10d6+15 without). We're all hating the rogue though, as he is so overpowered without anything out of the ordinary, that he's owning everything, and we are having to face creatures way above us that can survive his constant DPS...

 

[Question]

All it takes is energy resistance 5 to negate most of the "1d6 energy damage" weapon abilities.

 

[Glyfair]

I see this as comedy gold!

Ok, you're a demigod... of what? Have you been told?

In one FRPG game we had an encounter with a powerful being that asked us if we were gods. Everyone who has seen Ghostbusters knows the answer to that, so I admitted to being a god. The being than asked me what was I the god of. Since I had a habit of creating new personas, I said that I was the god of pseudonyms.

As the campaign developed, I discovered that I actually had become the god of pseudonyms. A discussion here, a reference there and it was part of the campaign background. I had no abilities from that (at least none that I explored), but it was kind of fun being the god of pseudonyms.

 

[Mav]

I love when DM's just drop stuff in like that. This DM actually gave me the abilities of a Rank 0 however, with the exception of the additional 13 natural AC you gain, which he said he'll let me get when I hit level 20. He didn't do any stat modification to my character either, even though it states that the Divine Rank 0 characters have extremely high stats, I do have way above average stats, and my base charisma at the moment is 22 (28 with my cloak). From my understanding, Divine Rank 0 usually get 25+ on their main stat, but the rules of course are only what the DM tells you they are =P I'm perfectly happy with my 32 SR, 10 DR, and 5 FR. Amongst some of my divine feats I have now, such as Repeat Spell =)

Honestly, as I said previously, it hasn't really imbalanced the game too much. I died 2 games ago, by a dragon. After I attacked him with a maximized cold spell that ended up doing like 123 damage to it, I didn't realize that it took double damage from cold, so I hit it for 246 damage. It decided to full round power attack me... Needless to say, I dropped. I got true ressurected in town for 50k gold, but they also gaes'd me to do some quest for them to preach their word (haha yeah right). Took them 3 attempts.. they had to hold me down for 30 minutes =P I had a friend remove the gaes with a limited wish spell though, so it's all good... Now it's time to raise some towns =) Anyone say Whirlwind of Teeth? =)