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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 4931205" data-attributes="member: 4937">1st Edition Deities & Demigods version.1) Obtain followers.2) Obtain power roughly comparable to a demigod, which according to the guidelines would be roughly twice the normal 'high level' characters in your world.  In my campaign, being 30th level would about do it.  In FR, I suppose you'd need to be about 60th.3) Convince your followers you are a god and that you should be worshipped.4) Wait a few decades to accumulate enough numina (personably, to gods what XP is to mortals) to actually act like a god, while trying not to get destroyed by any actual dieties or similarly powerful beings.5) Proliferate your worship while trying not to get more powerful gods angry at you.Killing a god and taking his spot wouldn't do it, although it would go a long way toward fulfilling #3 and would obviously satisfy #2.  You kill a god, all it really means is that the dieties numina and sphere of influence is up for grabs for whoever could take it.  Persumably, the slayer would be able to take a first cut of the profits, but you'd have to know how (and I'm the DM and even I don't know how, because its never come up).  Slaying a god is also a bad start on #5 though.</blockquote>