You are all GODS!!

[Roman]

well VV tghe simple answer to that is that Divine Rank is Based off in part by number of followers you have.... I do believe... I haven't really read over the entirety of the rules on this yet.. but I think that's a huge part of it.....

You won't find much information on the matter, because there are no rules for it. There are several options presented in Deities & Demigods, such as the power being inherent in the gods, power coming from followers/worshippers or a combination of the two, but these are merely suggestions with no rules attached to them.

But they could remain in our home planes/planets and that way we don't have to bother with the accounting of followers.

This. Or the power could be inherent in the gods, or partially tied to the world - as the world ages, the godlings increase in power automatically.

Of course, having to depend on worshippers could make things interesting in that promoting our religions would be important to the growth of our power. Tracking it, however, could prove to be rather onerous.

I suppose we could devise a system for how worshippers could impact divine rank if we wanted it to be that way.

Here is an example of how it could work:

Each person could grant a number of Belief Points:

Believer: 1
Worshipper: 5
Devotee: 10
Priest: 10*Level

Divine rank = SQUARE_ROOT(Belief Points) / 1,000

Tracking all of this could be quite tedious though. Some things could be approximated, but still. Say two religions declare wars on one another - how do you determine how many priests and devotees die from each? Or a godling decides to punish a city by smashing it turning it into a jungle (or blowing it up with a volcano, or whatever). Immediately you have to recalculate how many people died from what religion in order to reset divine ranks.

 

[Myth and Legend]

I think we should be dependent on the number of worshipers on this world alone (for RP reasons). Holy Man will use them as a replacement for XP points, and award worshipers as a result of RPing choices we make. We should get to choose several notable representatives of our faith and use them to do our bidding in the world.

On a side note, one deity we really lack is an Ocean God. Manaan, Poseidon, Njord etc. A god of the Seas/Ocean has been ever present throughout human history. We are simply too closely connected to the life giving properties of water, to it as a means of providing food, trade routs, as a stormy danger when angered etc. Had i not chosen Heliasillyel already, I'd have made an ocean God for sure.

 

[Rathan]

I would have to agree with ML on this one.... and even though he/she'd be nearly my exact opposite in some aspects we still need one in my opinion... would be a nice opportunity for an NPC God or Goddess in my honest opinion... or if another player comes along.. there we go

 

[Rathan]

I like your idea Roman... a more complicated version of mine actually breaking down who gives what to the deity.. however I suggested a simple mechanic because I know this is going to be a pain in the arse for HM as it already is heh

 

[Voda Vosa]

Ditto that.

About the ocean god, The one and the Many has Water as one of its domains, but is mostly refered to freshwater. Anyway, if there is no god of oceans, would there be an ocean anyway?

 

[Frozen Messiah]

So the game begins...

I understood that I have 2 intelligent kukris but I thought it over and Tunbuntbur the Watcher will be given up as a piece of himself to imbue the world with his essence

I will soon switch over to wilder, when things get a little less crazy in the home work category.

 

[Sunking]

the V means check all is good and fine no flaws found!!!
It was just me doing the math and dubble checking charekters (to feal important after some hard words from frozen about me not being important (joke))

And the part about number of followers is in Faiths and Pantheons, ill look it up tommorow and post (at work now, and playing my normal D&D group tonight)

 

[Theroc]

As it is for me at the moment, I am debating between whether to go with a more 'feral' battle kind (barbarians, totems, bestial veneration) or more of a Spartan/Roman fighting for the greater glory of the cause.

That'll have a rather significant impact on a lot of my productions... and I am thinking I may be a late entry here as I don't want to hold you all up, but this may take awhile. I wanna make sure I create a god I'll want to continue playing for quite awhile.

 

[GlassEye]

Myth, how is Heliasilllyel changing her form? Or is that sun symbol her natural form?

 

[Myth and Legend]

The Gray Mist is RP only, and is a realm where we enter in spiritual form only. In other words, it's just flavor, no mechanics behind it I figured that since we are in the spirit world that prevents us from interacting or using any powers, we can project whatever image we desire before the others.