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<blockquote data-quote="Helldritch" data-source="post: 8404880" data-attributes="member: 6855114"><p></p></blockquote><p>No you did not. You ignored how I told you how we used it and you told us how it worked... but wait.... you do not own it and yet you corrected me on how it was supposed to work???????</p><p></p><p>We played the Immortal set for à while, both the published adventures and a few more homebrew so that we could explore how gods interacted with each others. Power Point was used to start projects/fights/endeavors with other gods for control of a prime or many primes depending on the power level of the god/immortal. The weakest the immortal, the more it must rely on mortals to succeed. A god must also be careful to not use/invest too much power in an endeavor or he might face a new contestant or if weakened enough through PP expenditure might mean it's downfall as PP put into a project/endeavor is permanent until that project/endeavor is/are resolved. Working direct interventions is costly and done only as a last resort. There were tons of rules on how much surprise PP on direct (read here divine) intervention could be spend comparing to the starting PP expenditure. </p><p></p><p>It was an enlightening game and it is unfortunate that it did not sell that much. At the same time, it was time consuming and requires a lot of prep both from the DM and the players. We were literally playing gods and it gave us a unique view on the interaction that was between different gods and different pantheon. Gods do fight for the control of faith as it gives them more power and more influence. At first in one prime world but as they grow, their influence goes to other worlds and the more world's they are on. The more they are challenged by other deities.</p><p></p><p>So yes, Asmodeus might be a god in a small prime, but in many others, he's just an arch devil. Lolth ascension to the status of a greater goddes meant that she could hope to be much more than a si.ple goddess of the drow and actually use a much broader portfolio.</p><p>[/QUOTE]</p>
[QUOTE="Helldritch, post: 8404880, member: 6855114"] [/QUOTE] No you did not. You ignored how I told you how we used it and you told us how it worked... but wait.... you do not own it and yet you corrected me on how it was supposed to work??????? We played the Immortal set for à while, both the published adventures and a few more homebrew so that we could explore how gods interacted with each others. Power Point was used to start projects/fights/endeavors with other gods for control of a prime or many primes depending on the power level of the god/immortal. The weakest the immortal, the more it must rely on mortals to succeed. A god must also be careful to not use/invest too much power in an endeavor or he might face a new contestant or if weakened enough through PP expenditure might mean it's downfall as PP put into a project/endeavor is permanent until that project/endeavor is/are resolved. Working direct interventions is costly and done only as a last resort. There were tons of rules on how much surprise PP on direct (read here divine) intervention could be spend comparing to the starting PP expenditure. It was an enlightening game and it is unfortunate that it did not sell that much. At the same time, it was time consuming and requires a lot of prep both from the DM and the players. We were literally playing gods and it gave us a unique view on the interaction that was between different gods and different pantheon. Gods do fight for the control of faith as it gives them more power and more influence. At first in one prime world but as they grow, their influence goes to other worlds and the more world's they are on. The more they are challenged by other deities. So yes, Asmodeus might be a god in a small prime, but in many others, he's just an arch devil. Lolth ascension to the status of a greater goddes meant that she could hope to be much more than a si.ple goddess of the drow and actually use a much broader portfolio. [/QUOTE]
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