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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tony Vargas" data-source="post: 6879372" data-attributes="member: 996">For the deities thing:  Strength of Faith to innate magic (Sorcerer-like) may not be that big a leap.  It could become a plot-arc focus.  What if a rival/villain prophet or messiah figure emerges whose dogma contradicts some of what your Cleric and/or Paladin believe in or stand for.  They must set out to prove that he's a false prophet, that his powers don't really come from the god.  That might involve all sorts of quests to sacred places, searches for relics, crises of faith, etc... so there's your travelogue and episodic structure.And, in the end they discovery that, yes, the prophet does get his power from some innate heritage - but so do the other divine characters, so, perhaps, do all such characters.  But, saving grace, they identify the prophets heritage as something unpleasant - diabolic perhaps - while their own heritage may trace back to a more legitimate figure, a demi-god or avatar or race of angelic beings or whatever fits, or, maybe to another, more neutral source, but their power is /shaped/ by their faith.Make the players the focus and driving force of those changes - and be open to them /not/ being precisely what you were going for.</blockquote>