Steverooo said:
Now, build a "cost" for your deity to do things, and assume each convert yields 1D3 POW/week... If a first level spell costs 1 POW, then that's all the deity can give the Cleric, if he is the only worshipper. Further, since this isn't the deity's plane, the cost is increased by 1 POW per plane (or level of plane) between the deity and the Cleric (which explains why deities don't interfere on other planes as often).
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Sound usable?
Excellent! This is what I'm looking for (and was just hoping
it had been done before, like in Primal Order). I wasn't clear
in my first message and you read my mind!
The cleric has been cut off from his deity and (forgot to mention
in the 1st message) is paniced about not being able
to cast spells above 3rd level -- I was hoping for a numeric
system that could be used to allow him to reconnect to his
deity so that he can get higher level spells.
So if he could get (making up these numbers) 200 people to
worship, his god could give him 1 4th level spell, 300 then 2 4th or
1 5th, etc.
To fusangite's point, it wouldn't have to be for the entire pantheon
of this plane, just for this character to make contact.
The benefit of having it as a numerical system would be the
eventual conflict of the gods of the plane saying "Hey, who the
heck is this Odin-person that muscling in on our territory ..."
The numbers could also determe that Odin, while a Greater God in one plane,
could be statted as a demi-god on this plane......eventually
making an interesting Deites & Demigods/Epic kind of campaign later
that those 3rd edition books were shooting for. ("Now, if I can
just spread the word to this continent, Odin would be raised to
Lesser God status and can take on Foo, the god of Bar....")