Lords of Creation Open Source

[Lumina]

Having Garner'ed Permisson, This thread with be for the furtherment of the Lords of Creation System.

All Ideas shall be welcome, but not all will be implemented as core. Some may be marked as house rules.

Gameplay rules:
Roleplay is used to describe what your god says, does, and creates. However to do certain tasks, or create certain things, and extreme amount of energy is required. This energy is referred to as your Divinity Points (DP). You can spend you DP to do any task on the DP list below. Every week you gain an additional amount of DP depending on several factors. The factors include:

Base DP given every week is 3DP + any of the following that apply to you.

Divine Rank: How long you’ve been a god. (How long you’ve been playing. Gods receive one extra DP for every eight weeks of play)
Followers Power: Number of followers you have and their power.
Avatar: If your Avatar stays at your side for one week you gain one DP.
Donation: gods can donate DP to each other.
Followers Population: You receive 1DP for every 20FP.

The week resets on Monday at 0001.

Tasks that require DP are listed below.

1DP Tasks:
Shape Land: This task can create or change a 100 square mile area of land into any natural land type. (This includes any kind of natural terrain such as land, ocean, lava, volcano, swamps, etc. This will also add any non-created vegetation, such as grasses, trees, algae, etc.
Blessing: This task increases the Followers Population (FP) of one group of Mortals by 1. (This can be roleplayed as you bestowing good health, good breeding, overall happiness, a bountiful harvest etc…)
Curse: This task decreases the Followers Population (FP) of one group of Mortals by 1. (This can be roleplayed as you bestowing poor health, slowed breeding, overall unhappiness, a poor harvest etc…)
Create Animals: Introduces a new sort of natural animal to the world. All birds could be created, but that would not include hawks, penguins, ostriches, eagles, etc...
Spawn Special Creature: This task creates one powerful Monstrous or Magical creature. It must be related to your domain, and you can only have one creature per domain. This can be the Loch Ness monster, a kraken, a unicorn, or something of the like. Decide whether is benevolent or malevolent. It can then Bless or Curse any population up to the amount of Creature Points (CP) it has. It may not bless the same population more than twice.
Teach Populous: You may teach one group of your followers an aspect of one of your Portfolios. You may only teach your followers once from each portfolio. This task allows them to advance to the next Follower Rank (FP).

2DP Tasks:
Destroy Land:This action destroys a single area, killing all and any creatures, animals, plants, and mortals. This action may only be used if there are no mortals with FP for any other God, if there is you must either pay that population's FPx3 in DP or have the consent of the God who controls the FP of the local population.
Guide Populace: Allows a god to give simple messages and commands to a group as a whole, such as telling them to worship a different god or declare war. Using Guide Populace has one of the following mechanical effects:
* Declare war on another group of mortals, if there is no agreement on who will win both must pay additional DP in secrete, the higher payment wins. The attacking group looses 1 FP, and attacked group looses 2 FP
* Transfer your own followers directly to another deity at no penalty.
* Reduce an opposing god's followers' FP by 1. This action costs the current FP in extra DP
* If a group's FP is at 0, a god may use Guide Populace to officially "claim" them as his own followers with a FP of 1. Any temples created before this action are destroyed "For the NEW God"
*You may raise a group's Tier by 1. This lowers the FP of the populace by 30, if they do not have enough FP this will not work.
Beget Sub Race: Creates a closely related, but distinct offshoot of an existing race. The new population begins with a FP score of 1.
Lesser Inspire Special Creature: This action raises the current CP of one group of monsters by 3.

3DP Tasks:
Greater Shape Land: As Shape Land, but it affects 400 square miles at once.
Greater Bless: As Bless, but effects up to 4 FP on two different Populations, It may not give more than 3 FP to one of them.
Greater Curse: As Curse, but effects up to 4 FP on two different Populations, It may not remove more than 3 FP to one of them.
Imbue Monolith: Imbues a populations Monolith, Allowing it to give 1 extra DP to the populous. Each Monolith may only be imbued once per Divine Week and not on the week in which it is created.
Beget Race: Creates a new “Follower” race. Not strictly humanoid, but any population with at least a semblance of civilization. Ogres, orcs, humans, elves, minotaurs, satyrs, centaurs, mind flayers etc all fall into this category; dragons, rocs and other monsters do not. The new population begins with a FP score of 1.
Inspire Special Creature: As Lesser Inspire Special Creature, but effects two groups of special creatures.

4DP Tasks:
Create Concept: Create a new "basic concept," such as Bronze Working or Arcane Magic.
Raise Avatar: Creates another entity that acts as your envoy. It may speak to mortals directly, fight in mortal battles, and be a pain in the other god's Side. Leaving your Avatar with mortals for a divine week allows them to act as long as the Avatar stays with them as a FP 5 higher for opposed powers. If your Avatar stays near you for a Divine Week it gains 1 DP, it can only have 1 DP at any time. You may only have 1 Avatar per 50 FP you control.
Raise Exarch: Creates another entity that acts as your envoy. Fight in mortal battles, and be a pain in the other God's Side. Leaving your Exarch with mortals for a divine week gives that Monstrous Exarch one CP, it may act as either a benevolent or malevolent Special Creature. If your Exarch stays near you for a Divine Week it gains 1 DP, it can only have 1 DP at any time. You may only have 1 Exarch per 50 FP you control.

5DP Tasks:
Create Monolith: Creates a place of intense divine energy, such as a towering slab of softly glowing marble, ornate statue, or soaring temple. Such a Monolith must be obvious to anyone in the region and may only be created in a region that the creating deity's followers control. When created, a Monolith grants a +1 DP to the local followers, to be used each week. If their FP do not grant them DP, it does not grant any. Each region may only have 1 Monolith.

7DP Tasks:
Terraform: As Shape Land, but 10,000 miles.
Exaltation: As Bless, but effects up to 10 FP over up to 10 populations. May not raise a single group's DP by more than 7.
Apocalypse: As Curse, but effects up to 10 FP over up to 10 populations. May not lower a single group's DP by more than 7.

10DP Tasks:

Create Plane: Creates a realm with whatever fantastic or other-worldly characteristics the god desires. Realms are finite and initially only the size of a small country (100 or 200 Miles). The realm begins with whatever terrain and features the creating god desires. After creation, castings of Shape Land may be used to alter the design of the realm, but they affect three times as many squares.
Shape Land may also be used to expand the size of your realm, at the cost of 1 DP per 100 miles. New areas come into play with whatever terrain you chose. All realms have an owner or owners. Casting Shape Land in a realm that you do not own (or at least where you do not have permission) costs 2DP instead of 1DP.

Followers Power:
A faithful group of mortals could, sometimes, tap divine spark together. This would allow them to change the world in powerful ways, even challenge the Gods. This is represented by Follower Power. Every 8 Divine Weeks a group of mortals will gain 1 FP. This is a score of how powerful the group is in comparison to a God. There are uses of the FP, and only one non-automatic action can be done each Divine Week. As listed below.

Using these powers do not lower the FP score of a group.

20 FP Actions

Automatic - One God that the group respects/worships gains +1 DP per week.

Totems: Building a Totem on group grants the group a boost when receiving bless of +1 FP.

30 FP Actions

Elder Priest: Creates a Priest who can use DP granted from a God, he may not have more then 1 DP at any time. A populous may not have more then 1 Priest per 10 FP.

Temple: The Group can build a temple to a God, this temple will grant a reduction of 1 DP cost to a Priest on actions effecting the populous (Minimum 1). Each Populous may only have 1 temple plus 1 temple per 40 FP.

Pantheist: A populous may choose to worship two allied Gods. This grants the populous a boost to the number of priests they may have, equal 1 per 5 FP instead of 1 per 10 FP.


40 FP Action

Automatic - One God that the group respects/worships gains +1 DP per week.

Elder Council: Creates a Council that counts as 1 Priest, but has up to 1 Priest in it per 10FP the populous controls participating in it. This requires the group being in the second tier.

50 FP Action

Heretics: By preaching against another God, the populous may engage in Divine Combat action. Using a single DP.

Cathedral: This action adds a Cathedral to a Temple, allowing it's patron God to use a 1 DP action on the populous for free, doing so render the Cathedral useless.

60 FP Action

Automatic - One God that the group respects/worships gains +1 DP per week.

High Priest: To use this action you must have at least 1 Council Filled, and you must be on the third tier. A High Priest gains 1 DP per week that no other Action is taken by the populous other then automatic actions. A Population may only have 1 High Priest.

80 FP Actions

Automatic - One God that the group respects/worships gains +1 DP per week.

Create Eidolon: Use this action to create a second High Priest, the population must only be on the fifth tier to make this action. A population may only have 1 Eidolon.

These are the actions a Populous can do on its own. You do not have to do any Divine Actions in a week to use these, and can get no action weeks from over powering your populous. There are other weekly powers a populous can gain, they are weaker then the powers that a populous can gain from high FP but it can affect the world.

Tier 1 Power: None.

Tier 2 Power: Each week the population does no other action, they may build a village, city, or other settlement, raising their FP by 1.

Tier 3 Power: Each week the population does no other action, they may show great worship. If they do only this for 2 weeks in a row, it grants the worshiped god 1 DP.

Tier 4 Power: Each week the population does no other action, they may change the world around them, they gain a single shape land use to change the terrain.

Tier 5 Power: Each week, the population gains a second action. They may do an action and still considered to not do any other actions for other powers.

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[Xealot]

I am here, ready to help revise the rules.

[mythlord]

Mythlord reporting for duty. I'll help rewrite the rules and playtest.

I DON'T WANT TO SEE THIS GAME DIE. IT SHALL LIVE!!

This is a great idea and i am just sad that we were closing the original. but I help continue making the rules, and if necessary Gm a game or two. But i would prefer to playtest as a character:p

and for my first comment i think we should add to the rules that in the beginning THERE IS NOTHING. Unless the Gm specifies, the only things are the gods/goddesses. And to prevent further confusion, Create Concept should create a new basic concept, unknown by the mortals. So like in our first game, time is happening and affecting the mortals, but the mortals do not know what to call it, or how to measure it. (Not trying to reopen wounds, but to prevent furth arguments like that one)

[Alexander Tau]

Seems to me what you have here is a nice start to a System but not a complete one. Guess everybody knows that now.

I will be reading it more carefully later on but there needs to be a fair bit of explaination with these rules. Especially in the basics of what you get when you create things. Do the Rules here reflect what was learned/decided in the game that was just run?

This is a good idea for a System but the concept is so big you just cannot shorthand the Rules. The potential game dynamics are insanely complex. This is so big that it really needs a lot of detail.


A.T
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[mythlord]

To A.T.

These rules are the exact same as the ones we played with. we haven't made any additions to them yet. Cbolt might try to continue the game in the forum, but we still don't know yet. And it is still a very crude ruleset. we will try to make things more clear as we make changes to the rules.

[archmagi1]

i think a bit of clarification is needed as to the difference bettween follower population and follower power. For instance, in the Bless and Curse entries, it increases follower population (FP), but in the follower power entry it implies that FP is follower power. I have a feeling they're the same thing, since their concept seems similar.

Also in the DP per week entry, if they are the same thing, then i'd suggest just amending the Follower power entry to have the 1DP/20FP and getting rid of the redundant sentance instead of having the esoteric "number and power of follower". Also, does the 1DP/20FP mean that you get 1DP for each mortal group of worshippers you have at 20FP or the total FP representing your entire worshippers? (Ex: 1 lvl 20 mortal group or 2 lvl 10 mortal groups?)

Also, in the teach populous entry, it talks about advancing to the next follower rank, here also denoted by (FP).

Does the Avatar staying by your side mean its in the astral realm with the god or stays by your side as its still obeying its tennants and sticking by its greater self? Same goes with Exarch.

When does a mortal group advance a Teir? Is it the same as the FP levels for civ powers? Is it a separate measurement all together?

[Terminus-Est]

Having followed the game a bit (missed entries the first time around) I think the ability Create Concept needs to be clarified and broken down into several abilities.

In essence, creating the Concept of Unexpectedly Short Fuses (DP 1), Bronze Working (DP 3) and Time (DP 7) are all way out of scale with each-other and their DP cost should reflect this.

Creating Fundamentals of the Universe should be more expensive than Technological Advances which should be expensive than Cultural Quirks

Religious beliefs and practices belong in there somewhere around Technological Advances I imagine.

[cbolttoak]

CTDrafts

Here is my new version of the rewrite, with a major upgrade from the original rules, the MESC upgrade:

LoC CTDraft v0.23

One Sentence Explanation: The game is focused in roleplaying the story of deities and the epic forces being played, with a cost structure established to faciliate gameplay.

The "Point Cost" structure is setup with three tiers of play, Deity, Icon, and Populace.

The Deity Tier: The Player Characters stand as Deities, and the Game Master, or "Prime Deity". ***Expand on this with Deity Creation***

The Icon Tier: Singular represenatives of the Deities meet on the Material Plane or Astral Planes, the intermeditary between all three Tiers. They are roleplayed by either the Game Master or Players of the Deity that created the Icon.

The Populace Tier: Where everybody else is, the hordes of followers and denizens of the land, and the constant struggle they face between forces mundane to cosmic in an effort to survive. Individually, roleplaying them may be temporary at best, but as a whole, they serve as the driving force of much of the game.

Each Tier receives Points: Deity Points, Icon Points, and Populace Points.

Deity Points (DP): The currency of the Gods, and with them, they expend DP to use their Divine Powers. DP is gained at the start of each Cycle, and spent through a series of actions in those Cycles. The only classification they have is the deity that spent the points.

Icon Points (IP): The overall ability of the Icon they belong to. IP is loss and gaiend through Actions and Powers used on them or they use on others. Icons and their IP come in Levels of Extraordinary, Supernatural, and Cosmic.

Populace Points (PP): Overall status, ability, and power of the Populace. The amount of PP they have defines what actions they can perform each Cycle. Highly dynamic, this number increases and decreases throughout the game for a number of reasons. PP comes in levels of Mundane, Extraordinary, Supernatural, and Cosmic.

The gameplay itself incorporates Four Levels of Power: Mundane, Extraordinary, Supernatural, and Cosmic.

Mundane Level: The level of being completely normal. The "water and bread" of necessities, barebones civilization, and the like. Mundane is the lowest something can be and still be something worth adding. However, things at the Mundane level are very easy, and can rack up numbers very quickly, becoming a force as effective as Cosmic through sheer numbers.

Extraordinary Level: The level of being above the cut. Perks, enchancements, developments beyond what the natural world brings. The Extraordinary Level provides a clear sense of improving on normal conditions. However, things at the Extraoridnary level can be taken away as easily as created, and it's important to protect extraordinary things from those who would seek to take it for themselves or destroy it outright.

Supernatural Level: The level that is just outside reality, but a part of it. Magic, psionics, souls, anything that can manipulate these exotic forces belongs in this level. The Supernatural level is far from the simplicity of the Mundane, and far outside the understanding of Extraordinary, which gives significant advantages. However, it also presents the world with something truly unique and different, and reactions to "different" vary greatly.

Cosmic Level: The level of the impossible. Everything that is not one of the other three is Cosmic, and can vary from the utterance of truenames to untying the binding strings of law and reason and forming a brand new weave in reality. This is the level of the Deities themselves, which can be a blessing or a curse. Beings with this level of power are praised, feared, and worshipped for their grandeur, but also envied for the power that the greatest can actually seek.

The gameplay functions on a map of Regions. "Region" is in reference to a cubic location of the map that is 10x10x10 miles (1000 cubic miles) which is +5 to -5 miles to sea level (defined by Game Master). All Acts that target Regions have to target that specific set of dimensions, and must target a complete Region (not half of one and half of another). The Material World starts off with Regions, and when you make Astral Planes, you may create new Regions within those. Regions have two conditions: Region Level and Ecosystem Level

Region Levels (RLN, RLM, RLE, RLS, RLC): These come in Null, Mundane, Extraordinary, Supernatural, and Cosmic. Null Regions cannot be used by deities, as set by the Game Master, to make cosmic borders that may be changed in the future. Mundane Regions are landscapes that do not interfere with human civilization, while Extraordinary Regions make human civilization difficult. Supernatural Regions have magical characteristics that may defy natural law, but the area runs on the same principles as any other (floating rocks, but same sense of gravity for everything else). Cosmic Regions are exclusively for the Astral Planes, and can be anything the imagination can come up with.

Ecosystem Level (ELM, ELE, ELS, ELC): These come in Mundane, Extraordinary, Supernatural, and Cosmic. Each level of an Ecosystem will support it's own level and higher Populaces. For example, a Mundane Ecosystem can support any Populace, but an Extraordinary Ecosystem cannot support a Mundane Populace.

The Game Master decides the exact nature of the Material Plane that the players will begin play on, and everything that the world is governed by. Though the World is unrealistically maintained in it's state, it is assumed that the "Prime God" is the force that maintains the reality of the world. Gravity, atmosphere, and anything else that makes it an Earth-comparable world.

Default Conditions:
Space: Flat plane of rock with no definite dimensions, with a limited area to work from at the start (100x100 Regions) which is expanded by the Game Master as gameplay requires.
the World starts off with an empty, cloudless sky, no stars, moons, suns, or anything. Each player that creates a deity (as well as the Game Master deity) choses to form a star in the sky at the beginning of the game, and adds one star to the sky at the start of each Cycle, if they chose. They may use this to form constellations or other cosmic signs in the sky for their mortal worshippers to enjoy.

In order for a sun or moons to come into play, new planes of existance must be made, which will be designed to represent those stellar bodies. Regardless of the nature of the suns or moons, the conditions of the material plane do not change outside of normal Earth conditions (making the sun a white dwarf or red giant won't freeze or burn the surface of the world, and adding more moons won't cause a tidal onslaught and complete madness).

However, until a sun is created, life on the planet has to function without sunlight, so take that into account in the description and creation of lifeforms before the sun's birth.

The game has two modes of play for accruing points and playing out the game, Turn-Based and Real-Time.

Both modes of play are seperated into instances of gameplay, which are set and moved by the "Prime Deity", which is the Game Master. Some instances are not included in either mode of play, as set by the Game Master. All instances are not actual measures of time, but abstract measurements to facilitate fair gameplay.

Divine Act: A moment of time in which a divine power's effect manifests or is mandated to manifest by the deity. Almost all Acts are Powers, but some may simply be Actions the deity performs.

Divine Undertaking: The number of Acts each deity may perform before they must wait for the next Undertaking. Default is 10 Acts, but can be changed by the Game Master each Undertaking. This is where the posting of all the Acts you will perform, and any addtional information needs to be accounted for.

Divine Intervention: The chance for deities to rethink their choices and decisions in the previous Undertaking and alter what they will do based on other deity's choices. Game Master may decide the exact rules for an Intervention and change these rules (and whether there will be an Intervention permitted) each Undertaking. Default assumes that 1 Act may be changed, and any number of Acts can be halted, and there is only 1 Intervention after each Undertaking.

Divine Cycle: The rest that all the deities go through to accrue new Divine Points. Time moves in the Material World during this time, and the divine powers make their effects on the world. This is the primary time in which roleplaying is done for each set of effects, and times in which Icons and Populaces are able to use most of their abilities. The Game Master decides how many Undertakings will be in a Cycle at the start of one, how long the Cycle shall last, and when a new Cycle begins. The Default is 3 Undertakings in a Cycle, with timeframes depending on whether it is turn-based or real-time.

Divine Rest: A player-set number of Cycles in which a deity will not be present for, or busy and unable to do any Acts or Interventions. These may also be set by certain powers that take more concentration and effort from the deity to perform. During a Rest, the Deity accrues a flat rate set by the Game Master at the start of the Rest, default being 3 DP+Age a Cycle (not getting any other DP bonuses). They may still participate in Icon and Populace-based Cycle activities, and any roleplaying during a Cycle. They may not end the Rest early for any reason, they must specify how many Cycles when they begin the Rest. They may only declare Rests as their first Act in a Cycle, and perform no other Act, and may not participate in any Intervention of that Cycle. Only the Game Master may permit the end of a Rest prematurely of the set time.

Divine Purpose: <Not Complete> ***Method in which deities can be classified from one another. Rankings. Immutable trait that can be chosen at any time, but cannot be changed or amended later. Defines the deity's place and position in an absolute manner. "Race" being mortal comparison***[/COLOR]

Example of Use: The Fire God John and the Water Goddess Jill get 2 Acts per Undertaking, for 3 Undertakings, with an Intervention after the 2nd Undertaking. Total of 6 Acts. John posts that he will do two Divine Powers for his two Acts, and Jill posts that she does nothing for her two Acts. 1st Undertaking ends, with no takebacks (no Intervention), and the 2nd Undertaking immediately begins. John sees Jill did nothing, decides to press an attack with some offensive Divine Power at her followers for his post, doing nothing with his second Act. Jill is already posting that she will do nothing again for her 2nd Undertaking. The Intervention comes. Jill sees the attack and chooses to use an offensive Power of her own to retaliate, changing one inactive Act to do so. John was clever, however, and takes the moment to halt his attack Power and change his inactive one to a defensive Action that costs no DP. The Intervention resolves, and the 3rd Undertaking Begins, in which John then uses two Actions to move his Icons and Populace at Jill's, while Jill waits to see what he is going to do before she uses her two Acts to use more Offensive Powers. The 3rd Undertaking Ends, the Cycle resolves. John and Jill roleplay out how he faked a fireball at her villagers, provoking her to send a tsunami that he blocked with a wall of fire, just before his dragon knights launched out at her islands, only to be assaulted by horrible elemental typhoons and pushed back to their nation.

In Turn-Based Play, the Game Master decides which Instances will be used, and their organization, which can be changed from Cycle to Cycle. A Default configuration would be:

1 Purpose (optional)
1 Rest per 3 Cycles
1 Cycle has 3 Interventions
1 Invention has 1 Undertaking
1 Undertaking has 3 Acts

But the Game Master has final say each Cycle, and may have many different setups used depending on the Cycle over the course of the game. Each Undertaking is 1 post, with 1 post for Intervention. Once all deities have posted for the Undertaking and Intervention, they resolve, unless the Game Master resolves it early. Once Interventions are resolved, the next Undertaking can be posted, and so on.

By default, the Cycle resolves when all deities have posted their Undertakings and Interventions, and may then roleplay out the events. The Game Master may rule that they will resolve the Cycle manually, to confirm that the Cycle was played correctly.

In Turn-Based play, a single thread is created for all Undertakings and Interventions, and a new thread is created for every Cycle, with the Game Master concluding each Cycle with all the necessary game information for the next Cycle to begin.

This method is best for testing the balance of the gamerules and prevent unstable events, but does not facilitate a good Play-by-Post environment, tending to be very slow and difficult to keep interested. Multiple worlds would be possible, but the overall data having to be kept track of and maintained may be difficult.

In Real Time Play, the game has an established real-world timeframe to complete your Acts and Cycle. By default, there is no Undertakings or Interventions, but they could be established as GMT-set times of a day.

Real-Time Play's default configuration would be:
10 Acts a Cycle, no more than 3 Acts per 24 hours.
A Cycle is 1 Real-Time Week
A Rest can be any number of Cycles
1 Purpose per game-thread

In Real-Time Play, Acts and roleplaying are all done in the same thread, with a rough chronological order of events, with little or no chance to change what Acts you have already performed.

Multiple threads may be run quickly and easily in this form, for multiple worlds and gods, with all the informaton exchanged in OOC spoilers or stat threads. It is a fast way to playtest the most realistic use of the system, and start new worlds when rules fall apart or cause an instablity that causes the thread to be dropped.

At the beginning of each Cycle, the characters at the Deity Tier receive a base of 1 DP. In addition, they receive more DP based on certain conditions:

1. Age Mod. Beginning at +0, Every 8 Cycles, your Age increases by 1, increasing your DP increase by 1.
2. +1 DP per Cycle for every 20 PP you control.
3. +1 DP per Cycle for every Astral Icon you control at the start of the Cycle.
4. +1 DP for every DP that was donated to your deity last Cycle by other deities.

With Deity Points you have Divine Powers you can perform:

Notes On Powers Descriptions:
Cost: The amount of divine points a power cost, and the amount of Acts it uses.
Target: Deity, Icon, Populous, or Region.
Effect: The effect of the power in gameplay.
Roleplaying: Advice or Info on how the Power may be roleplayed in Cycle resolution.

Shape Mundane Region
Cost: 1 DP, 1 Act
Target: 1 Region(Unoccupied)
Effect: Change the Region to a Mundane one, and decide what it will appear like. You decide if it possesses water, certain elements in the rock, and any other normal geographical properties. If the region had an ecosystem, that ecosystem is destroyed.
Roleplaying: The terrain must be a naturally occuring one, and must be hospitable, geographically, to some basis of human life. Examples would be a valley with a river running through it, a temperate mountain range with climb-able cliffs and stable caves, or a fair-sized island

Shape Extraordinary Region
Cost: 2 DP, 1 Act
Target: 1 Region (Unoccupied)
Effect: Change the Region to an Extraordinary one, and decide what it will appear like. You decide if it possesses water, certain elements in the rock, and any other normal geographical properties. In addition, you decide the extreme conditions the environment possesses that makes it so extraordinary. If the region had an ecosystem, that ecosystem is destroyed.
Roleplaying: The terrain can be any terrain that could occur in nature that can either support or completely oppose human civilization. Examples would be a mountain range of sheer cliffs and ice-frosted caps, a field of lava and scorching geysers, or complete ocean.

Shape Supernatural Region
Cost: 3 DP, 1 Act
Target: 1 Region (Unoccupied)
Effect: Change the Region to a Supernatural one, and decide what it will appear like. You decide if it possesses water, certain elements in the rock, and any other normal geographical properties. In addition, you decide the extreme conditions the environment possesses, if any, and the supernatural characteristics that makes this landscape truely bizarre. If the region had an ecosystem, that ecosystem is destroyed.
Roleplaying: The terrain can be one in which magical effects permeate the geography, but do not reshape the way it functions at certain basic levels. For example, the mountain range could have parts that float over the ground, but it's because there's special material that makes it levitate, gravity as a rule is not defied there for anything entering the area. The terrain may have a single column of green or black fire that burns in one part of the land, fueled by an unknown source deep underground. The island is surrounded by a glacial wall of ever-ice, which will never melt under natural circumstances.

Shape Cosmic Region
Cost: 4 DP, 1 Act
Target: 1 Planar Region (Unoccupied)
Effect: Change the Region in a Plane you have control in to a Cosmic one, and decide what it will appear like. You decide every possible characteristic of this terrain, down to the very rules of reality within it. If the region had an ecosystem, that ecosystem is destroyed.
Roleplaying: Only to be used in other Planes of Existance, this power will give you free control to create any kind of place you want, your imagination is the only limitation in such a place.

Create Mundane Ecosystem
Cost: 1 DP, 1 Act
Target: 1 Region (Mundane, Lifeless)
Effect: The Region now supports a Mundane Ecosystem, and can support a Mundane Populous.
Roleplaying: Establish at least a rudimentary plant-herbivore-carnivore-decay-plant system in which the area thrives on, without any of these lifeforms being of a serious threat to a basic human society. Some examples would be a forest environment where the biggest predators are brown bears or a small pack of wolves. Something like a pride of lions would be stretching into extraordinary, but permissible in certain environments.

Create Extraordinary Ecosystem
Cost: 2 DP, 1 Act
Target: 1 Region (Extraordinary, Lifeless)
Effect: The Region now supports an Extraordinary Ecosystem, and can support an Extraordinary Populous.
Roleplaying: This kind of ecosystem could not care less if it's friendly to the mundane, but is the kind of environment that provides valuable natural resources for the truly extraordinary, as long as they survive. From monstrously large herbivores and saurian creatures to dire meat-eaters, massive semi-mobile plants, poisonous everything, anything up to a Jumanji kind of environment. This is also the minimum classification for all completely aquatic ecosystems.

Create Supernatural Ecosystem
Cost: 3 DP, 1 Act
Target: 1 Region (Supernatural, Lifeless)
Effect: The Region now supports a Supernatural Ecosystem, and can support a Supernatural Populous.
Roleplaying: This environment is mystical and mysterious, or just full of a lot of flame-throwing lifeforms, up to you. Creatures living here turn their prey into stone, can communicate intelligibly and even telepathically, all sorts of magical creations could be possible, as long as there is a clear idea of balance to the ecosystem. This kind of environment supports a Populous of Supernatural people, providing many esoteric or exotic needs.

Create Cosmic Ecosystem
Cost: 4 DP, 1 Act
Target: 1 Planar Region (Cosmic, Lifeless)
Effect: The Region in the Plane you have control in now supports a Cosmic Ecosystem, and can support a Cosmic Populous.
Roleplaying: This ecosystem can make sense, or not. Point is this is what lives here and that's how it rolls, and provides a place for your Cosmic folk to call home. It could be a single megalithic lifeform that has an entire rainforest worth of oozes and mites and bugs that move about inside of it, reshaping it's alien body any way it sees fit. Or you could just have three animals, a Lobster, a Lizard, and a Tiger, who regularly do battle at noon to decide who will get to sit at the big chair for the rest of the day. Your imagination is the only limitation.

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Bless Mundane Populous
Cost: 1 DP, 1 Act
Target: 1 Populous
Effect: Increases the Mundane PP of your Populous by 1.
Roleplaying: Decide what you do to enhance their lives and allow growth and development in their society. Examples may be a good harvest for the season, or more comfortable days in otherwise inclimate conditions.

Curse Mundane Populous
Cost: 1 DP, 1 Act
Target: 1 Populous
Effect: Decreases the Mundane PP of target Populous by 1.
Roleplaying: Decide what you do to afflict their lives and cause decay and degredation in their society. Examples may be a poor harvest for the season, or more inclimate days, bad weather and the like.

Create Extraordinary Icon
Cost: 1 DP, 2 Acts
Target: 1 Region (Any)
Effect: Create an Icon under your control that starts with 1 Extraordinary IP. Decide whether the entity is Benevolent, Malevolent, Alien, or Beastial, and it's Title(s). This Icon is mortal and can be killed. It dies when it's IP is reduced to 0. The first Act creates the Icon, and the second Act manifests it into the Material World.
Roleplaying: An Extraordinary Icon can be any above-average being without supernatural qualities, including a human with heroic abilities granted to them at birth by their deity, or a particular beast of the forest being the sole dire variation.
***Notes to Self: Develop a Action to move Icons. Alien and Beastial added to "Icon Motivations" to better facilitate Magical Beasts and Abberations***


Create Mundane Populace
Cost: 2 DP, 2 Acts
Target: 1 Region (Mundane, with Mundane Ecology)
Effect: Creates a Mundane Populous under your control that starts with 1 Mundane PP. Decide the Title(s) for the Populous upon creation. The Populace is mortal and can be destroyed when it's PP is reduced to 0. The first Act creates the Populous, and the second Act manifests it into the Material World.
Roleplaying: A Mundane Populous is an average, and barely unique race with qualities similar to humans, dwarves, wood elves, or the like. Before they obtain Extraordinary or Supernatural PP, they also possess minimal civilization standards, more akin to tribal society. ***Notes: Create "Move Populace" Action***

Bless Extraordinary Icon(2 DP): Increases the IP of one of your Icons by 1. Be sure to have a roleplaying effect for what the Blessing represents (such as stronger flames from it's breath weapon, or giving it armaments).

Curse Icon (2 DP): Decreases the IP of another deity's Icon by 1. Be sure to have a roleplaying effect of what the Curse represents (such as a sudden hot geyser scaring it's flesh, or closing an invisible fist around it's lungs to constrict air).

Create Supernatural Being (3 DP): Creates a single immortal entity that possesses supernatural abilities. This entity counts as an Icon under your control, and receives 1 IP upon creation. Decide what it is called by you and/or your Populous.

This entity is a manifestation of you on the Material World, and therefore is a physical reflection of you.

Choose the location the creature manifests as part of the Act. The creature remains in this region unless a "Move Icon" Action is performed to change it's region.

Get approval from the Game Master before this Power is performed, unless the GM has stated that Uniques were Open Play.


This entity must match your Domain in it's supernatural quality, and possess no other supernatural quality. For example, if you are the God of the Fire Domain, you cannot give your Unique Lifeform an incredibly long life, or far-reaching senses. You could give the creature the ability to breathe fire, or immolate themselves harmlessly, or be able to cross or consume lava without harm.

Extraordinary Blessing (3 DP): Changes 1 Mundane PP of a Populous in the Region targeted to 1 Extraordinary PP. Be sure to have a roleplaying effect as to what the Blessing represents, Extraordinary refering to non-magical effects that put them above and beyond the average (such as an advancement in the populous' civilization, a sudden increase in the life span a few years, etc.)

Create Divine Icon (4 DP): Creates a single immortal entity that possesses cosmic abilities. This entity counts as an Icon under your control, and receives 1 IP upon creation. Decide what it is called by you and/or your Populous.

This entity is a manifestation of you on the Material World, and therefore is a physical reflection of you.

Choose the location the creature manifests as part of the Act. The creature remains in this region unless a "Move Icon" Action is performed to change it's region.

Get approval from the Game Master before this Power is performed, unless the GM has stated that Uniques were Open Play.

<Remaining Rules still Under Construction. No Release Set>

This is the remaining core rules I'm still working through.

4DP Tasks:
Raise Avatar: Creates another entity that acts as your envoy. It may speak to mortals directly, fight in mortal battles, and be a pain in the other god's Side. Leaving your Avatar with mortals for a divine week allows them to act as long as the Avatar stays with them as a FP 5 higher for opposed powers. If your Avatar stays near you for a Divine Week it gains 1 DP, it can only have 1 DP at any time. You may only have 1 Avatar per 50 FP you control.

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[mythlord]

It actually looks pretty good Cbolt. Would you mind helping with the new group i am forming, and probably playtesting those rules along with others?

[Xealot]

Although you haven't quite got that far yet, one things that will need to be reworked is the Population Tier advancement. The way it was set up would take and insanely long time to get a population up to tier 5. The work so far is nice.

[TrueBlood]

Personally, I think that the interactions between creations, their environment, and other creations should be taken into a much deeper depth. War, for instance, should not be something so simple as quickly spending some DP and some people dieing. We have Curse for that.

When a god creates a race, the god should be able to design it, but the god should also be required to make it conform to a series of stat rules, this way races will become more diverse and less just names.

An example race using a template I just made up off the top of my head:

The Santis:
The Santis are a snake-like race, their bodies scaled and thing, with their hooded heads decorated in many colors. Their tail drags along the ground as they move. The Santis procreate rapidly and are fine warriors, but are not as bright as the rest, and are rather clumsy with their hands.
Allocation of 12 CP (Creation Points)
Reproduction Points: 6
Power Points: 4
Intelligence: 1
Craftsmanship: 1

In this template, reproduction points could be used to determine population and manpower for armies, public works, and other actions that require many creatures to work on it at once.
Power represents their natural ability to harm and destroy, useful in war and a few other actions.
Intelligence would be their innate ability to create ideas and technology.
Craftmanship would be their actual ability to create and would effect what their technology and created buildings.

War should have stats such as the following:
MTP:Military Technology Points
MP:Man Power
Power: A creature's innate ability to harm
Equipment: The race's standard equipment and how much it helps in the war.

I did not finish all this as I have a friend over now, but you get the idea.

[Xealot]

Just a thought... If this is the case, should we stat the gods as well?