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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Upper_Krust" data-source="post: 78273" data-attributes="member: 326">Hi DMaple mate! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> Nowhere, near as much.Its all fairly simple.You have Faith energy (gained from worshippers) and Siphoned energy* and the total of the two is Divine Power. *Siphoned energy can also be negative though - such as when you expend it (ie. to create divine powers, cast True Dweomers, create artifacts, create or modify servants/avatars etc.)I'm not going to explain the mechanics behind gaining (or losing) Faith here ( <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> ), but they are simple to follow and are generally just common sense.Once you have determined the Faith energy you can easily extrapolate the number of clergy; lay clergy; devoted and typical worshippers (in about 30 seconds, you don't even need a calculator)There are many ways to gain and lose siphoned energy (eg. killing a deity will gain you 10% of their divine power - much like the 'quickening' in Highlander) but again these are all very straightforward.Divine Power denotes the status of the deity.eg. You need 50,000 WP (worship points) to gain the Hero-deity template.So once you know the basics most of the rest is optional campaign aids and parameters for the DM (expanding faith, starting a new faith, matured faiths, religious relationships) and players (divinity and portfolio templates new spells, powers, artifacts, feats etc.).So you can really make things as rules-lite or as detailed as you want them.I am including a few character sheets at the back. These Include a Faith sheet so that players and DMs can detail/flesh out their worship if they so wish.eg. My Lesser God character Thrin has almost 20 pockets of worship (faiths) spread over a dozen worlds.</blockquote>

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