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[micelus]

I'm going to terribly regret this...


IC: http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=167503.msg7568262#msg7568262

Setting the Stage...

The Age of Darkness has begun to End. By the sacrifice of the greater gods, the world has returned to life and so too, has the conflicts of divine and mortal alike. Unfortunately, you and others like you have lost. Forced to flee, you have fled to the empty lands still in the grip of Darkness, not yet blessed by the invigorating light of the new Age. What followers you once had are dead, shedding their lives so that you could survive. They reside with you in a periapt, a container of souls that may sustain you for some time...and offer reincarnation for the dead, in forms that suit your desires...

What is a godgame?

I'm just gonna copy+pase this from Ghazkull's Pantheon:

In any case a Godgame is a game in which, suprise, you play a god. In general all of them have something called Acts. An act represents the divine power of a god which he can bend to whatever purpose he or she deems necessary.

Nature of the Gods

Gods are physical beings composed of souls and are sustained by the worship of mortals. Consequently, a god cannot exist outside the physical senses of their followers. Either by sight, smell or hearing, a god must be able to be sensed by their followers to act. Should a god be divided from their followers, Terrible Things are likely to happen.

While godly, they are not omnipotent nor omniscient. Their senses are bound to the senses of their followers. Note however that the ability of a god to sense is also directly tied to how many followers are in an area. A city full of followers grants near omniscience in the area while a lone hunter grants no ability to perceive at all.

As beings that feed on worship, a god is naturally affected by how mortals perceive them. While a god may originally see themseles as a deity of forests, followers who begin seeing them as the deity of the hunt and chaos will result in the deity itself changing. Mainly, this affects the god's own artifacts, demigods and servants more than it affects the god itself.

Note that follower in the above context refers to those who primarily worship a god. Individuals may worship many gods, but are only counted as followers for the purpose of extending a god's reach if they worship a specific god primarily. In areas where a pantheon is worshiped, most mortals may not count as followers, limiting gods to only their clergy and devout believers in the area.

Conflict

Gods are physical beings. This said, direct conflict between two deities is looked down upon as terribly uncouth, as well as destructive beyond belief. As such, most conflicts are settled through indirect displays of power, diplomacy, and the manipulation of lesser beings. This said, such violence does occur. In such cases, three concepts are used. Integrity, Dice, and Retinue.

Integrity is the 'hp' of the gods, representing the ability of a god to maintain their physical body in the world with each number representing a portion of a god's divine soul. Should this reach 0, the god collapses upon itself, being unable to sustain its physical existence. However, Integrity is also used to attack other divines. During each round of combat, a god declares a certain amount of Integrity to be used to harm another god and if successful, deducts that amount from the enemy while also dealing the same amount to themselves.

After the amount of chosen Integrity is declared, a god then divides their Dice amongst their dice pools, Defensive and Offensive. A god has a varying amount of dice that can be put in either pool, with Defensive used to minimise damage while Offensive increases damage. Defensive Dice decrease damage from enemy gods and cannot decrease the damage incurred by attacking.

Besides Dice, one can also make use of Retinues. Retinues are various artifacts, followers and other entities that can be declared for use during godly conflict. Retinue can only be chosen from entities or artifacts that willingly give their allegiance to the god or are bound to them in some way. Each Retinue has an effect that is revealed upon the start of a conflict. Once declared, they may be used during any round of combat. Only 1 Retinue may be used per round and is afterwards unusable for the rest of the conflict. Note however that declaring a Retinue may result in permanent damage to it and may forever change it after battle.

A god may elect to yield at the start of any round, forfeiting victory.

Acts

These represent a unit of divine essence used to shape the world. What can be done with a Minor Act can be done with an Act. What can be done with an Act can be done by a Great Act. Note however that utilising so much power on relatively trivial activities can have unexpected effects, and vice versa. Acts are mainly accrued via worship, but other sources do exist.

Minor Acts: A portion of power far outside the reach of most mortals, it is the ability to make heroes of mortals, of changing a region, to create trinkets of power, to change the very essence of a species or usher in the birth of a new entity of power.
Acts: A portion of power standard by godly standards, it is the ability to craft a new species, of morphing great expanses of land, to create artifacts of power, to forge demigods and yet other things. Simple to acquire.
Great Acts: A portion of power that is awe-inspiring even for gods, it is the ability to create whole races of semidivinity, change continents or even tamper with the laws of Creation. Difficult to acquire.

Bound Acts: Acts that can only be used for specific purposes. Restrictions apply on an act-by-act basis.

Of course, a god may perform mundane actions such as holding parties, seducing fair maidens or building a palace. Note however that this tends to be...extremely taxing for all involved and may have grand consequences.

Other Concepts

As the game progresses, other concepts may be discovered. 

OOC Rules

For the sake of everyone, retconning actions and editing posts that affect consequent posts is forbidden.

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Probably around 5-8 players.

Code: [Select]

Name:
Core: The primal focus of your god. This is the sphere that god itself perceives as its rightful dominion.
Sphere(s): the aspects of Creation that are perceived to be related to a god by mortals. Leave blank.
Appearance:
Personality:


[micelus]

The Aforementioned Other Concepts

Concept 1: Settling. Destroys the Periapt of Souls, stopping a god from wandering without followers, but also allows for the powers of Creation to be used. All Acts are transferred to the owning god.
Concept 2: NPCs may offer missions or offer requests to players from time to time. This may be given publicly or privately.

[micelus]

Dramatis Personae


Personas

Marsus, God of Illumination and Judge of the Eighth Court: powerful divine known for his cunning.

Locations

Basilica of the Baal-Adonai: The centre of the Baal-Adonai cult, those who revere the dead divines congregate here and obey the laws of the Eight Courts. The Basilica is surrounded by the last of Knossos' great cities and if from where the Light spread from.

Entities

Baal-Adonai: The strongest of the gods who sacrificed themselves to create the Light and push away the Dark. Are worshipped by gods and mortals alike.
Eight Courts: The  administration of gods that enforce divine law. All are gods themselves and worship the memory of the Baal-Adonai. Most reside in the Basilica of the Baal-Adonai.

[Ghazkull]

Nice, another godgame

question here however, doesn't the combat concept make fights between gods without any retinues basically a thing of who has more integrity?

if i have 100 integrity and B has 100 integrity and i use 50 to hurt him, i lose 50 in the process but at most do 50 damage do i get that right? Or how does that mesh with the dice?

[micelus]

In short: Yes, although Dice might significantly increase or decrease that.

Any more info pertaining to this is best discovered in-game.

[Criptfeind]

Looks kinda interesting. The implication from setting the stage seems to imply that the players are going to be some sorts of gods of stagnation or at least darkness? And that there's going to be other (presumably more powerful) gods and an already existing world? I'm wondering if there's more information on that, and if there's some sorta expectation as to the type of gods players should be playing (it'd be a bit weird to play, idk, a god of light and technology to learn that all the player gods have been banished away from light and civilization at the start of the game)

[micelus]

Oh no the gods can be anywhere along the alignment scale, it's just that your gods have been beaten towards the outskirts of godly society, so to speak. Of course, good is subjective and not at all objective. Some gods or races might find torture a good thing, for example. And yes, other gods exist.

I plan to reveal backstory details every turn, although I'm willing to divulge some details now if you really want them.

[NUKE9.13]

You can never have enough godgames.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Name: Tick
Core: Order
Sphere(s): -
Appearance: A mass of iron and steel; clicking gears and hissing pistons. Four huge legs support a central body. Rising above the center is a large spire, which supports a great clock which tells the absolute time.
[Assuming I understand the setting correctly, otherwise ignore:] But no freshly-forged construct is Tick, no longer anyway. Rust has claimed his extremities, not a single step can be taken without some component breaking, and though the clock tells the time with perfect accuracy, nothing else seems to function as it should. When one says that the gods depend on their followers to maintain their form, there is no god for whom this applies as literally as for Tick, for performing repairs is the responsibility of his worshippers, and without them, he inevitably decays.
Personality: Tick knows the time. Tick knows the rhythms of the world. Tick knows how things should be; how they must be. There must be order. There must be balance. There must be creation and destruction in equal measure. It is the violation of order and balance that has led to the state of the world as it is now, and Tick has little patience for things as they stand.
Tick demands two things of his worshippers: that they take up tools to repair him, and that they take up tools to repair the world.

That the sort of thing you're looking for?

[micelus]

Thats perfect. Rusty or not, either work so edit it or keep it in, it doesn't matter too much. Although, requiring your followers to repair you might be a bit tooo much. You're still a god, after all.

[NUKE9.13]

Hmm. The repairs would not be, like, literally repairing a machine, of simply replacing a piece of metal with another. One could replicate every inch of metal in Tick and end up with something with no more divinity than any old pile of scrap. Rather, it is the meaning behind the act that gives Tick sustenance.
I mean, when people sacrifice animals to their gods, they aren't doing so because the god will literally starve without it. Repairing Tick is like a 'sacrifice' of iron and labour.

[micelus]

Oh, that's perfectly fine then.

[Roboson]

I smell a god game. Can I resist joining? Never. I'll post a sheet later today. Probably going to go for some sort of God of monsters or something to that effect.

[Jilladilla]

Hmm... I'm bored, this seems interesting. Welp, here goes nothing, poke me if anything is glaringly wrong or missing.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Name: Cavefriend
Core: Deeper Earth (IE, Caves and things like that)
Sphere(s): -
Appearance: Cavefriend is a massive, for a cavern dwelling entity, cyclopsian giant. With pale skin, a stone staff the same color as the darkest obsidian, and brilliantly studded robes showing off the bounties of the under-earth, Cavefriend simultaneously presents an awe-inspiring, terrifying, and protective presence.
Really, which one is dominant depends on who exactly is perceiving them.
Personality: The Self-Proclaimed 'Friend of Caves' is both a god of protection and one of wrath, depending on if you are one of his followers or an intruder to the Deeper Earth. But truly, Cavefriend is incredibly protective of what he considers his, both his territories and followers, and is fully willing to bear the weight of the world for them, just like how the caverns he claims as his do nonstop. On this point, Cavefriend is as unyielding as the earth itself.
To those who are not among his followers, nor qualify as enemies, Cavefriend is startlingly informal and apathetic.

[Roboson]

Alright, here is my sheet.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Name: Lu
Core: Monsters and Death
Sphere(s): the aspects of Creation that are perceived to be related to a god by mortals. Leave blank.
Appearance: Lu is a giant humanoid with the head of a massive crow. His body is more human than bird, but has light feathering over lean muscle. His limbs are talon-like.
Personality: Lu sees the gods as master story tellers and strategists. He views his particular role in the story of gods as a driving force. Mortals rise to new heights when faced with adversity, so Lu creates adversity.
He doesn't particularly care for mortals, he finds them interesting to no end, but is not upset by their deaths. This gives him a bad reputation as "evil", but it's more the result of him looking to create interesting events than out of malice.

[micelus]

Robson, you can only have 1 Core. Otherwise, both of the sheets are acceptable.