God Rules: Players Guide (5e)

[Upper_Krust]

Hey hey, a very welcome update!

Thanks LunarSquid amigo!

It looks awesome, super excited to hear more about the project.

I think I posted the chapter breakdown before:

Chapter 1 Epic - what is epic?
Chapter 2 Immortality - trappings of immortality, how to become immortal, divine realms, immortal races etc.
Chapter 3 Divinity - higher tiers of play, divinity templates, new dimensions
Chapter 4 Purviews - your divine 'classes', divine abilities now baked into the purviews, 7 sample deities
Chapter 5 Powers - epic weapon mastery, plus epic, divine, cosmic (etc.) boons, 8 more sample deities
Chapter 6 Artifacts - artifact creation, new materials, 80 artifacts
Chapter 7 Magic - new (simplified) epic spell system, problem spells and dealing with magic abuse, 80 epic spells (more if I can fit them in) with maybe 10 new epic monsters (as part of summoning spells).
Appendices - 6 Divine Rank 1 PCs from mythology, Character Sheet, a few non-epic spells

There are 20 pages before chapter 1. Chapter 1 is 24 pages, all the other chapters average about 60 pages (Chapter 3 is 68, Chapter 5 is 52, etc.).

Current state of Progress (as of July 23rd) doing a quick page count: approx. 40 illustrations (about half being disembodied magic items) and 102 pages of writing still to do - I average about 10 pages per week (and finish off the odd art piece every other evening or so). So as you can surmise still a few months of work. Plus the website to attend to.

 

[Dante & Vergil]

I'm particularly excited about the New Simplified Epic Spell System! Can't wait!!!

 

[Upper_Krust]

I'm particularly excited about the New Simplified Epic Spell System! Can't wait!!!

Cheers Dante & Vergil buddy!

That bit is written, basically just 1 big table and a few smaller tables (IIRC), will do multiple passes over it to make sure its easy to understand.

Been concentrating on getting the art done (for a week or so), think I can get all the art done by the end of this month. Then I can concentrate on the last remaining pages that still need typed up.

 

[Khisanth the Ancient]

Sorry I've been away for months, this sounds extremely cool!

I am intrigued by the new tiers: Epic, Immortal, Sidereal, Eternal, and Supernal are familiar, and I know "Temporal" was a rank of Immortals in the BECMI rules, but Hypereal and Perpetual are totally new, right?

 

[MazzelDazzle]

Praying for an update soon Manifest manifest

 

[Upper_Krust]

Sorry I've been away for months, this sounds extremely cool!

You haven't missed much, I have been working away, still a bit to do though, although the art is basically done...maybe 10 illustrations remain (out of about 250), that's it.

I am intrigued by the new tiers: Epic, Immortal, Sidereal, Eternal, and Supernal are familiar, and I know "Temporal" was a rank of Immortals in the BECMI rules, but Hypereal and Perpetual are totally new, right?

Yes the tiering nomenclature is a bit 'wibbly-wobbly' at the moment. Basically the 9th dimension is a Hyperverse, but has the Supernals. While the 6th dimension currently has Hypereals and also the adjacent Interdimensional Space (ie. Hyperspace).

Technically the 10th dimension is Outerversal (for those who know their scaling...if you know, you know), but the "Outer Gods" are the Sidereal gods of the Far Realm which is the 5th-dimension.

Trying to create an "Oververse" that fits EVERY conceivable source (comics, manga, RPG, Lovecraft, tv, sci-fi, SCPs etc.) so you can just slot in: "I want to use this DC villain" or "I want this Dragonball character" or "I want this Lovecraft entity" etc. ...and just drop them in because the tiering is pretty obvious. Does Jiren beat the Anti-Monitor, can Galactus beat Cthulhu, how does Khorne fare against a Quantum Seraphim, how strong is a Beyonder vs. SCP 682?

All that stuff is easy to do. I just want to get the naming conventions as tight as possible.

Currently the 'scaling community' seems obsessed with making everything Outerversal and I don't prescribe to that notion because it massively invalidates everything in between. So what I come up with won't please everyone, but it will make FAR more sense in RPG terms.

 

[Upper_Krust]

Hey MazzelDazzle buddy!

Praying for an update soon Manifest manifest

Almost. Not quite at the "I know I can finish this within 4 weeks" phase, so no previews just yet, but every day I improve stuff and get that tiny bit closer to the finish line. As noted, down to (approx.) the last 10 illustrations (from around 250). Pretty much ALL* the chapters need 1 full week of work/polishing (or less) to complete.

*Maybe chapter 5 might need 2 weeks and its where most of the remaining big art pieces are missing.

One or two complications along the way, but nearly ready for previews. I do still need to finish off the new website though.

 

[Dante & Vergil]

Hey MazzelDazzle buddy!



Almost. Not quite at the "I know I can finish this within 4 weeks" phase, so no previews just yet, but every day I improve stuff and get that tiny bit closer to the finish line. As noted, down to (approx.) the last 10 illustrations (from around 250). Pretty much ALL* the chapters need 1 full week of work/polishing (or less) to complete.

*Maybe chapter 5 might need 2 weeks and its where most of the remaining big art pieces are missing.

One or two complications along the way, but nearly ready for previews. I do still need to finish off the new website though.

Sounds awesome! Can't wait!!!

 

[FleshEatingBlackFlutterby]

Are any of the 5E rules portable to 3.x?
If so, I plan to get this book as well.
Especially if it includes conversion notes.

 

[Upper_Krust]

Howdy amigo!

Are any of the 5E rules portable to 3.x?
If so, I plan to get this book as well.

Well off the top of my head...approx. 100 Epic spells, approx. 100 Artifacts (relatively easy conversion), Divine Realm building, 30+ new Materials, multiple new dimensions...but I am sure there is a lot more than that.

Especially if it includes conversion notes.

I do currently have (Epic) Spell Conversion notes in the book for 1st/2nd (Karsus Avatar and so forth) & 3rd (Epic Level Handbook spells).

So there is approx. a hundred new epic spells that can immediately have the DC converted in a few seconds.

I was planning to do full conversion notes on the website. Looking at the basic immortals, divine status is more or less the same up to Old One rank.

Hit Dice are (approx.) double the minimum I had in 3E (though Max. HP no longer comes as standard).

But after Old One there are a lot of new ranks and tiers...to better fit the new dimensions.