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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Drobney Falcor" data-source="post: 5615407" data-attributes="member: 6673591">I feel the friends that I play with are too attached to the standard pantheon and they would feel more of a connection with the world if it were to stay that way. Immersion is the second most important thing to consider (next to fun) and it will be helped in this way. That's not say i won't slip in a previous god or two of my own creation, taken out by one of the current deities. As for what happens when no interest in the dominion is expressed by the killer, I've already put some ideas on this thread but the more i think about it the more i want to do this: All domains are necessary and at least one deity or more is required to uphold them. So for example the killing of Nerull wouldn't throw the balance out of order but the killing of both he and Wee Jas would. Then at least one of the new gods would have to take up responsibility for death.The killing of a god will be more than just a romp through a dungeon to a fight only beatable with good rolls. Keep in mind not many gods will be killed (I predict 3-4) and so it will take a few sessions to discover a weak point in the base of the deity or the being them self. Or artifacts needed to counter act the deity's own artifacts. Speaking of these epic items I'm a little lost on how to handle the creation and inevitable stockpiling of these tools for when the gods descend to mortal-hood. I don't want to just throw them out, deus ex machina, but it's hard to discover an effective alternative. Maybe i can handle them in a story telling way, like the art of creating them has been lost ever since the first round of gods fell. These items are now only known by few and they guard the secret well, even going to great lengths to hide the destructive power from mankind (elvenkind, gnomekind, etc...). Artifacts have never been much a key point in previous games so I wonder if their absence will be missed. Challenges may be issued against the gods while they remain on the material plane but to claim godhood you must murder one. This point i will remain firm on. Inner pantheon politics is something I've already begun writing many notes on. The confrontation with a god will of course be more than storm the final lair and kill anything that moves. Even as the fight progresses i imagine a god will do almost anything to remain a god. Possibly bribing or lying to weasel out of a losing battle. And if that god's way of doing that is by magic, let's say teleport, then anti-magic fields will have to be put into use to successfully defeat the deity. I hope I've answered everything you inquired about.</blockquote>

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