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Message: <blockquote data-quote="oliverhenshaw" data-source="post: 108835" data-attributes="member: 2698">I think very early on in the hercules thread, someone metioned something about the level of god being a template.  But this has not been picked upon as far as I know.Looking at the stats for the gods in grewhark magazine, it seems clear that the type of god plays as large a role as the number of Divine Ranks.Maybe you've all assumed this, but it's something I've seen missing from the speculation entirely.So, Hero-deity, demigod, intermediate god etc. are templates of some kind that are linked to increments of 5 in DR.And they provide a variety of benefits.  Such as successively decreasing randomness on dice rolls, what range the divine radius is multiplied by, how long the Portfolio Sense lasts (instantaneously for demigods, DR weeks after the event for intermediate gods and DR weeks before AND after the event for major gods), and probably a host of little things including some salient divine abilities.And it's possible that the discrepencies in the numbers of SDAs you've noticed is due to the godly status of each of them.  And why does hercules, a hero-deity recieve -1 (an odd number), when all other god types seem to recieve multiples of 2?  because in 3e, a zeroth level effect in any scale is given a 'score' of 1/2.  That should give those of you with a taste for reverse engineering a bit more to work with.Lastly, this may solve the avatar dilemma Upper Krust was worried about.  The degree of godness determines things like how long it takes to create an avatar, how much effort and how many can be exist at once (altho dr could also figure in there, I expect the connection to be loose).  And finally, the 'only' difference between a god and an avatar being the halving of divine levels?  The avatar also loses the gods template and  gains the demi-god template (or perhaps a template similair in power to the demigods one).Look at some evidence for this:Iuz (Demigod)DR 3Divine Aura 30ftNo Avatar Pholtus (Intermediate God)DR 15Divine Aura 1500ftAvatar:DR 7Divine Aura 70ftRao (Greater God)DR 17Divine Aura 17 milesAvatar:DR 8Divine Aura 70ft (misprint?)Tharizdun (Intermediate God)DR 11Divine Aura 1100ftAvatar:DR 5Divine Aura 50ftRao's Avatar looks a little suspect, but the point is all the avatars have a DA with a radius in multiples of 10', irrespective of the status of the deity.  You could use the number of SDAs given to gods and to avatars to see if they're explained well by "God Status Templates" giving modifiers to number known.I think they're posted in an earlier message, but it's late and i can hardly spell now.</blockquote>

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