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<blockquote data-quote="Faolyn" data-source="post: 8421124" data-attributes="member: 6915329"><p>But not instantly. It's not you lose one worshiper and <em>bam </em>you're a lesser god instead of an intermediate one. Unless you really want this to be <em>that </em>crunchy. Which I for one don't.</p><p></p><p></p><p>He can't stop people from worshiping him (or paying lip service), but does he <em>have </em>to accept the power? Or can he just the worship slide on by? Again, <em>if </em>he doesn't want to achieve a higher state of divinity, which is an if--but again, I find sources that say that gods can't enter the Prime without an avatar (I think mostly because doing so would anger every other god), but Iuz lives on the Prime, body and soul. Any stronger and he might get all the other gods to attack him.</p><p></p><p>Again, for all we know if could take X number of worshipers over Y time period to achieve the next level of godhood, and he hasn't had that yet. It could also be that other gods are working against him and preventing him from achieving a higher rank. He has a lot of enemies, after all. It could <em>also </em>be that ranks in godhood aren't as cut and dried as "demigods have a few hundred to a few thousand worshipers" and there could very well be other requirements.</p><p></p><p>Or it could just be another D&D mistake, since the DMG states demigods don't grant spells (to mortal clerics) but Iuz <em>does</em>, and offers the Death domain.</p><p></p><p>Or heck, maybe he's actually a higher-ranking god than he thinks he is, but since his home plane is the Prime, and specifically to one part of one world in the Prime, and not one of the outer planes with the other gods, he thinks he's actually weak.</p><p></p><p>So all in all, I think it hardly matters if Iuz has one worshiper or one thousand worshipers or one hundred thousand worshipers and is also a demigod who grants spells. The only think that matters is how you want to use him in your game.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Faolyn, post: 8421124, member: 6915329"] But not instantly. It's not you lose one worshiper and [I]bam [/I]you're a lesser god instead of an intermediate one. Unless you really want this to be [I]that [/I]crunchy. Which I for one don't. He can't stop people from worshiping him (or paying lip service), but does he [I]have [/I]to accept the power? Or can he just the worship slide on by? Again, [I]if [/I]he doesn't want to achieve a higher state of divinity, which is an if--but again, I find sources that say that gods can't enter the Prime without an avatar (I think mostly because doing so would anger every other god), but Iuz lives on the Prime, body and soul. Any stronger and he might get all the other gods to attack him. Again, for all we know if could take X number of worshipers over Y time period to achieve the next level of godhood, and he hasn't had that yet. It could also be that other gods are working against him and preventing him from achieving a higher rank. He has a lot of enemies, after all. It could [I]also [/I]be that ranks in godhood aren't as cut and dried as "demigods have a few hundred to a few thousand worshipers" and there could very well be other requirements. Or it could just be another D&D mistake, since the DMG states demigods don't grant spells (to mortal clerics) but Iuz [I]does[/I], and offers the Death domain. Or heck, maybe he's actually a higher-ranking god than he thinks he is, but since his home plane is the Prime, and specifically to one part of one world in the Prime, and not one of the outer planes with the other gods, he thinks he's actually weak. So all in all, I think it hardly matters if Iuz has one worshiper or one thousand worshipers or one hundred thousand worshipers and is also a demigod who grants spells. The only think that matters is how you want to use him in your game. [/QUOTE]
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