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<blockquote data-quote="Minigiant" data-source="post: 6536524" data-attributes="member: 63508"><p>So for those who use them, 5th edition reduced the number of divine ranks and changed them up a bit. </p><p>The 5th DMG states 3 ranks: greater deities, lesser deities, and quasi deities.</p><p></p><p>Greater are the big ones. They rare get into mortal business and slaying their avatar usually does jack squat to them.</p><p>Lesser are weaker. They live then to live in places mortals (if strong enough) can reach.</p><p>Quasi deities are the weakest. They can't or don't grant spells. And they are split into 3 categories: Demigods (mortals with a deity parent), Titans (divine creations), and Vestiges (dead or forgotten deities). It suggests that they are stuck with creating warlocks until they ascend.</p><p></p><p>Well most noticeable, the cut of intermediate deities and renaming of demigods. The old intermediates and demigods jump a rank. And I guess the demigod rank was shifted to make pre-death Hercules and Achilles demigods again like 4th edition and the myths did. </p><p></p><p>4th edition created the concept of an Exarch. Since it had no demigods or quasideities, any divine ranked being under another deity was an exarch. With demigods back, an exarch would now only be a lesser deity in service of another diety or lower members of racial pantheon. Like Dawn-War-Maglubiyet, Xena's Strife, and all of the dwarven deities not named Moradin.</p><p></p><p>Older editions have heroic deities. With demigods defined in 5th, these leaves hero deities as "mortals with granted or stolen divinity but no enough power to grant spells". These are many of the epic destinies in 4th. Kill an epic lich and the god of death dumps boons all on your party.</p><p></p><p></p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Greater Deities<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Overdeities </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Greater Deities </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">intermediate Deities </li> </ul> </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Lesser Deities<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Lesser Deities </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><em>Exarchs</em> </li> </ul> </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Quasi-deities<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Demigods </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Titans </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Vestiges </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><em>Hero Deities</em></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><em>Proxies</em> </li> </ul> </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Non-Divines </li> </ul><p></p><p>So what are your thoughts? Are there any other type of deities? Where do being like Greek Titans, the 4th edition stars, or Great Old Ones fits?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Minigiant, post: 6536524, member: 63508"] So for those who use them, 5th edition reduced the number of divine ranks and changed them up a bit. The 5th DMG states 3 ranks: greater deities, lesser deities, and quasi deities. Greater are the big ones. They rare get into mortal business and slaying their avatar usually does jack squat to them. Lesser are weaker. They live then to live in places mortals (if strong enough) can reach. Quasi deities are the weakest. They can't or don't grant spells. And they are split into 3 categories: Demigods (mortals with a deity parent), Titans (divine creations), and Vestiges (dead or forgotten deities). It suggests that they are stuck with creating warlocks until they ascend. Well most noticeable, the cut of intermediate deities and renaming of demigods. The old intermediates and demigods jump a rank. And I guess the demigod rank was shifted to make pre-death Hercules and Achilles demigods again like 4th edition and the myths did. 4th edition created the concept of an Exarch. Since it had no demigods or quasideities, any divine ranked being under another deity was an exarch. With demigods back, an exarch would now only be a lesser deity in service of another diety or lower members of racial pantheon. Like Dawn-War-Maglubiyet, Xena's Strife, and all of the dwarven deities not named Moradin. Older editions have heroic deities. With demigods defined in 5th, these leaves hero deities as "mortals with granted or stolen divinity but no enough power to grant spells". These are many of the epic destinies in 4th. Kill an epic lich and the god of death dumps boons all on your party. [LIST] [*]Greater Deities [LIST] [*]Overdeities [*]Greater Deities [*]intermediate Deities [/LIST] [*]Lesser Deities [LIST] [*]Lesser Deities [*][I]Exarchs[/I] [/LIST] [*]Quasi-deities [LIST] [*]Demigods [*]Titans [*]Vestiges [*][I]Hero Deities[/I] [*][I]Proxies[/I] [/LIST] [*]Non-Divines [/LIST] So what are your thoughts? Are there any other type of deities? Where do being like Greek Titans, the 4th edition stars, or Great Old Ones fits? [/QUOTE]
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