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[Roboson]

IC Thread: http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=158326.msg7011934#msg7011934

Map: (Turn 4)

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Before the beginning of time the gods have worked ever so diligently to bring new and interesting worlds. Now as the creation of a new world draws near, many divine beings have drawn near. While your power is great and your will mighty, their numbers are many and their strength may be beneficial. Many a magical being, mage, and monstrosity would rally behind you if you appease their demands. As a god, it is for you to decide what makes it into this world and what does not. Chose your pieces wisely for there are those who may seek dominion over your domain.

In this game players will each play one god of many. Each turn players will receive an allowance of divine energy which will allow them to influence the world. In addition, each turn other entities will make you offers of allegiance and power in the developing world. You may chose to use some of your energy to fulfill their request (and receive a reward) or you may devote your energy to bringing your own vision into the material world.

Like most god games there isn't really a victory scenario. The game is about finding your own goals, creation, and doing what you'd do if you were a god. Now that doesn't mean you can't try to destroy other god's work, because you chose your own goals, you can act however you desire.

Spoiler: Character Sheet (click to show/hide)

God Name:
Spere(s): (This is mostly for flavor)
Appearance:
Personality (optional):
Goals (optional):

Each god will start with a single race of their own creation. You can choose to guide this race through the ages or let them flourish or falter on their own.

Spoiler: Race (click to show/hide)

Name:
Description:
Culture: (Remember, this is the dawn of time)

Then there are the other powerful entities who will try to make their way into the physical world.

Spoiler: Other Major Entities (click to show/hide)

Demi-gods: These powerful beings may be the patron god of a race, they may embody an ideal like justice or mischief, or they may just be a lesser god who isn't capable of interacting with the world like you. Whichever category these fit in, its safe to say that they have some real power.

Demons: These infernal creatures are dangerous creatures from the realms of hell. They have a wide range of powers and goals. Some may want direct entry into the world, others may desire other favors and deals.

Eldritch abomination: These incomprehensible beings are powerful, but distant. They exist far from the material plane and their power there and in the realm of the gods is weakened by the vast distance. That being said, they have some truly powerful and interesting things to offer you.

Titan: These powerful beings have existed as long as the gods, but are very crude in their existence and creation abilities. They often appear as a loosely constructed being made out of one element or another and their ability to interact with the material world is lacking. Plus, they hate the gods. If a titan is coming to the gods, they must really want something.

Spoiler:  Lesser Entities (click to show/hide)

Angel: A moderately powerful divine being. May be interested in the material world, may embody an ideal. Ultimately they're a decent addition to any god's garrison.

Lesser demon: A denizen of Hell, often seen trying to make deals.

Undead Spirit: These spirits from beyond the grave typically include liches and other powerful undead creatures who are seeking to regain life in a new land or destroy life there.

Abomination: These mindless monstrosities are dangerous and uncontrollable. They are incredibly varied, interesting, and difficult to kill. They really shake things up.

Serpent: A being of cunning a guile. They will try to find a way to slip into your realm and corrupt it somehow.

Monster: These are typically beings seeking entrance into the physical world. Minotuars, giants, sea monsters. That sort of thing.

All and all, this is a game about creating an interesting world. Several gods will play simultaneously and share one world. Each god's actions affecting the other god's. Some beings may be powerful enough to influence and enter the world without your consent, be wary and prepared to deal with those when need be.

[Demonic Spoon]

God Name: Om
Speres: Magic and Compassion
Appearance: A massive flying shining lidless eye
Personality: The responsibility and duty of the god is to ensure the happiness and prosperity of his creations. Honour your word. Trust, but verify.
Goals: That every worshiper become an archmage. That there is be no unhappiness among the mortals.

Name: Tortons
Description: Tortoise people with majestic shells and a gift for magic, especially defensive magic and wards.
Culture: Sedentary individuals, they will still go out of their way to help others, having empathy for the suffering of their fellows and sharing their joy. Will generally respond to threats by hunkering in their shells, and on a grander scale, hiding inside their walls and magic defences.

[NRDL]

In.

Spoiler: Nix (click to show/hide)

God Name: Nix
Sphere(s): Pain, Minds, Transformation
Appearance: A being with no lower body.  Its torso, arms and neck are mottled grey, looking they are rotting and decaying, creaking with every movement.  In place of a head, there is a floating diamond.
Personality: Just wants to have fun.  Existence without life is boring, and the most entertaining part of life is SUFFERING.
Goals: To ride out eternity and watch as everything else squirms and burns and breaks.  Maybe get in on the action itself.  Its got time.

Spoiler: Ingons (click to show/hide)

Name: Ingons
Description: Tubular creatures capable of symbiotically bonding with other lifeforms, enhancing their physical, mental and emotional capabilities.  One in every thousand Ingo is born deformed, leading to corruption of the host and just a good time for everyone in the immediate vicinity.
Culture: Very extroverted and expansionistic, in a friendly way.  Glorifies other cultures and lifeforms, and seeks them out in order to merge, and add to the symphony of life.  Reactions to their own inherent generational impurities ( the aforementioned deformed one in every thousand ) range from fear to outright genocidal hatred, ensuring there is always internal conflict within the Ingon race

[Nakéen]

Interested, I'm entering.

Spoiler: Triniteus (click to show/hide)

God Name: Triniteus
Spheres: Fire, Ice and Thunder
Appearance:
A floating being with only an upper body, arm and head.
Its right arm is covered with ice that never melt.
Its left arm is engulfed in flames that never extinguish.
There is a huge orb in the center of its chest, with permanent electrical arcs dancing inside.

Personality:
Value balance and progress. Care about his creations, yet still appreciate other mortals.
Can violently alternate between cool-headed and burning rage.

Goals:
See his people surpasses themselves, until the day they will truly surprise him.
Also keep the energetic balance of the world in check.

Spoiler: The Astathes (click to show/hide)

Name: Astathes
Description:
Humanoids made of what appear to be crust-like crackled rock. They possess a large jewel in place of the heart, protruding out of their chest.
If the jewel is round/square with few and clean surfaces, the Astathe will have powers over ice.
If the jewel has many sharp and small surfaces, the Astathe will have powers over thunder.
If the jewel has many curved and small surfaces, the Astathe will have powers over fire.

Culture:
They are pretty chill, rather uncaring yet tolerant of other species. They have a strong sense of duty and comradeship.

[Leonardo8]

Spoiler: Asteros (click to show/hide)

God Name:Asteros
Spere(s): Night and stars
Appearance:A clean-shaved man with large butterfly wings that seems composed of pure starry sky.
Personality:Very demanding from his subjects but at the same time very rewarding to thse who satisfy him
Goals (optional):To enlighten all the creatures on Earth both technologically and spiritually

Spoiler: Alarri (click to show/hide)

Name:Alarri
Description:Moth people about 50 centimetres tall, with lare blue wings. They are herbivorous, but they enjoy flowers most of all. They are smart,focused and agile, but quite  frail on the physical side.
Culture: They live simple lifes in the forests of their world, led by their elders. All their religious ceerimonies are held under the stars and they are excellent astronomers.

[snow dwarf]

Spoiler: Garix (click to show/hide)

God Name: Garix
Spheres: Death, Love
Appearance: A skeleton wearing a dark robe. He carries two blades in the shape of a heart one wait and one dark.
Personality: He almost never speaks. He travels the world in form of a shadow sometimes revealing himself, watching people fall in love, play, experience nice moments. He hates to see people die in pain and see his creations have conflict. He gifts people that are dying with a painless death with loving people close to them.

Spoiler: Inax (click to show/hide)

Name: Inax
Description: Human-like creatures but all have a single gem of different collors in their chest.
Culture: Love exploring, live in big cities hunting and killing other creatures for food. There are many conflicts between them and as long as they exist there will be wars.

[crazyabe]

Spoiler: Xenraft (click to show/hide)

God Name: Xenraft
Sphere(s): Monsters, Hells, Beasts, Chaos
Appearance: An old humanoid bearing a ruby scythe, he rides upon the back of a three headed Carnivorus Chicken.
Personality: "Insane" "Demented" "Mad" are all good ways to discribe his mind, but he prefers "Mind-Breakingly Broken".
Goals: He has no goals as that would require him to act Sane.

Spoiler: Dremonians (click to show/hide)

Name:Dremonians
Description: large twisted humanoids born in verying shapes almost designed for particular tasks.
Culture: can be described in a few words: Slavers, Marauders, Raiders, Cannibalistic.

[Ardent Debater]

Lawful Evil, Anyone?

Spoiler: Zelthen, Or The Shining One (click to show/hide)

God Name: His name Zelthen, although many call him The Shining One.
Spere(s): Order, Light, and Purity
Appearance: His Humanoid form is very large, yet graceful in it's movements. The Being wears a suit of Plate Armor and that glows in blinding, white radiance, hence, the title, and He wields a Masterfully Crafted Sword and Shield with excellent Skill. His Face is featureless, apart from two glowing Eyes and is perfectly symmetrical.
Personality (optional): Zelthen is fanatically devoted towards the Destruction of everything He deems to be, Unclean, such as beings of Chaos, Destruction, Death, Darkness, etc. And is on something of a Crusade to do so.
Goals (optional): Zelthen wants all of Reality to be bathed in eternally unchanging and Pure Light, and To that End, He wants to destroy all things, so that there will be Room for The Light. Almost Nothing is 'Pure' enough to be Part of His Vision, and He wants to utterly Annihilate any Traces of that which isn't 'Pure', He'd happily do unspeakable things to edge closer to His Vision of the Future.  His motto is, "The Ends Justify The Means."

Spoiler:  The Luminites (click to show/hide)

Name: The Luminites, they call themselves by many Names, the 'Pure', the 'Illuminated', the 'Chosen' and so on.
Description: They are Humanoid, Perfectly Proportioned, and completely Featureless. Their Bodies glow brightly, and when in Combat or Enraged, the Light becomes somewhat Blinding. The Luminites are Immortal, and don't Reproduce normally, instead a Luminite Priest spends exactly Eight months Meditating, every Six years, Three years, if the Luminite's are at War and eventually forms a fully grown Luminite. The Luminites are naturally very skilled at Light and Fire Magic, and are quite Talented in the Arts of War, but due to their Intolerance of others, have to use these skills often.
Culture: The Luminites disdain all Culture, apart from the Culture that Zelthen has given them. They live in a perfectly ordered Military Theocracy worshiping Zelthen and their Military Leaders are also their Religious Leaders. The Luminites find any other kind of Society to be Blasphemous and Unclean, and they will enact Genocide upon that Society. The Luminites never have any internal Strife in their Society, as they are all Created to be perfect Harmonious with other Luminites, other Societies, however, are Constantly at War with the Luminites in an effort to preserve their own way of Life. The Luminites don't do much Physical Labor as they are beings of Pure Light and see such things as beneath them, and Enslave the more 'Pure' Population of those they've Conquered and work them to death, believing that they will Reincarnate as a Luminite, the Highest Form of Mortal existence. Occasionally they will go on a 'Crusade' to 'Cleanse' an 'Impure' Society, and their Armies leave nothing but Ashes in their Wake.

[Roboson]

Wow, that is a lot of entries in only a few hours. Ok, well I'll write up the actual system and make an IC after lunch. I think 7 is a good number of gods, even numbers and all that.  I cant count. Plus it looks like we have a fairly balanced pantheon.

The players:

1: Om (Demonic Spoon) - Nuetral
2: Nix (NRDL) - Evil
3: Triniteus (Nakeen) - Neutral
4: Asteros (leonardo8) - Good
5: Xenraft (Crazyabe) - Evil
6: Zelthen (Ardent Debater) - Good, but really evil.
7: Garix (snowdwarf) - Good?

(The alignments don't actually mean anything and probably aren't even accurate, that's just my interpretation.)

[Roboson]

Each turn players are given 10 Intervention Points. These can be spent to add things in the world, smite creatures, cause natural disasters and all other godly actions. Bellow are some guidelines to help understand how much a point is worth. When in doubt, do a price check in the OOC. Otherwise I'll interpret you action as using however many points you put in. If it is not enough, the act could fizzle or even backfire on you. And there are no refunds, even if a spell fizzles.

Disasters and Acts of God:
50 Points: Global Cataclysmic Disaster or global blessing.
40 points: Semi-global Cataclysm or semi-global act of god.
30 points: Hemisphere Catastrophe or blessing that affects half the world.
20 points: Regional turmoil and destruction or blessing that effects a region.
10 points: Localized natural disaster or act of god.
5   points: Minor disaster or blessing.
*These don't necessarily have to be good or bad things, this is just a guide to the cost for the area affected. So a blessing that affects the whole world would cost about 50 points, depending on the nature of the blessing. Whereas a blessing that effects a small area will cost around 5-10 points.

Creation of Life:
50 points: Demi-god.
40 points: Minor powerful being (Angels, demons, abominations, basically any world power creature.)
30 points: A mortal race with magical ability.
20-30 points: Large creatures with dangerous potential (semi-megabeasts and megabeast levels of power)
20 points: A mortal race without magical ability.
10 points: A complex or magical animal
5   points: An animal or complex plant.
3   points: A plant or simple animal

Landmark Creation
50 points: A new landmark that could effect the entire world or is extremely powerful.
40 points: A very large or powerful landmark.
30 points: A magical landmark the size of a dungeon (So a labyrinth, a necropolis, or other similarly sized large magical construct).
20 points: A mundane landmark/construct like a large city, a mountain range, or a sea.
10 points: A very small magical landmark or a mundane landmark the size of a small city.

New Locations
40 points: A new continent.
20 points: A small continent.
10 points: A new region or island.
*This is just the base, there will be no life in these new locations until you put it there.

Artifacts
50 points: A powerful artifact that has the potential to affect large parts of the world.
30 points: An artifact that can effect regions. 
10 points: An artifact that can effect a small area or up to 5 individuals.
* The effect given also effects price.

The above lists are to serve as general guidelines. However, there is much more you could do than that listed above, so price check often so nothing fizzles or backfires.

[Demonic Spoon]

Wow, that is a lot of entries in only a few hours. Ok, well I'll write up the actual system and make an IC after lunch. I think 6 is a good number of gods, even numbers and all that. Plus it looks like we have a fairly balanced pantheon.

The players:

1: Om (Demonic Spoon) - Nuetral
2: Nix (NRDL) - Evil
3: Triniteus (Nakeen) - Neutral
4: Asteros (leonardo8) - Good
5: Xenraft (Crazyabe) - Evil
6: Zelthen (Ardent Debater) - Good, but really evil.

(The alignments don't actually mean anything and probably aren't even accurate, that's just my interpretation.)

Despite your claims, I'm pretty sure alignments will affect who approaches us for recruitment, and I'm hoping for angels, so I'll note that Om is probably good, not really sure why you put him down as neutral. Compassion is a virtue. Further, Zelthen is unambiguously evil despite his imagery.

[Demonic Spoon]

snips prices

I'd appreciate costs for actually you know, guiding and help a race and miracles and the like. Teaching our race about agriculture or magic, building them a city, empowering their armies, resurrecting the dead, having food rain down from the heavens etc. Similarly editing an existing race to for example, have greater magic power.

[crazyabe]

One man's Disaster is another man's blessing in my opinion.

[Roboson]

-snip-

I'd appreciate costs for actually you know, guiding and help a race and miracles and the like. Teaching our race about agriculture or magic, building them a city, empowering their armies, resurrecting the dead, having food rain down from the heavens etc. Similarly editing an existing race to for example, have greater magic power.

I'm just going to treat that as a price check. I've added a new section to the guidelines and clarified them a bit.

Contacting a race: 2 points.
Teaching one type of magic: 15 points. (So like fire or water magic would be a type of magic. From there the race would learn a couple spells in that field on their own.)
Teaching one particular spell: Varies depending on the strength of the spell.
Teaching skills: 5 points (a skill would be something like archery or how to tame a specific beast or a better method of farming or even a type of architecture. Basically any mundane skill).
Building them a city:  See new landmark creation section. 
Resurrection: 75% cost of how much the entity would cost to create from scratch.
Rain food: See revised disasters section.
Increase in magic power: 10% increase in power per 10 points spent.

[Demonic Spoon]

Teaching one type of magic: 15 points. (So like fire or water magic would be a type of magic. From there the race would learn a couple spells in that field on their own.)

Expensive