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[Roboson]

Just throwing this out there to see if anyone would be interested in doing a remake of this game I did a year ago (almost exactly). The game will be pretty much exactly the same as the original, if there is interest. If anyone would like to play a game like this, say so below or post a character sheet. I've quoted in the OP for the OOC for the original.

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.

[NRDL]

IN, sheet incoming

Spoiler: Guldenix (click to show/hide)

God Name: Guldenix
Sphere(s): Destruction, Gluttony
Appearance: A heavily muscled humanoid, with a wild boar's head. His body is covered in tattoos, and in every depiction he wields an axe.
Personality (optional): A hedonistic and brutish god, Guldenix desires nothing more than a good fight and a good meal. Not very ambitious or meticulous in his methods, the Boar God prefers seeing a universe chaotic and filled with all manners of beasts, killing each other, cooking each other, all the good stuff.
Goals (optional): Have the biggest, strongest, fightiest race in existence worshipping him, find the most delicious food in all existence, and just enjoy it from there.

Spoiler: Daktils (click to show/hide)

Name: Daktils
Description: Porcine creatures, much like their god, the Daktil are an aggressive, standoffish race. Asexual reproducers, each Daktil is born with a clutch of pods inside themselves that only hatch into new creatures once the original has died, causing there to always be a need for conflict and death, whether from external or internal sources, for the species to grow.
Culture: As of yet, the Daktil just enjoy scrapping and exploring in the name of their god, and also out base curiosity.

[Taricus]

Spoiler: Kyazir (click to show/hide)

God Name: Kyazir
Sphere(s): War, Beauty, Engineering, Ingenuity, Dynamism

Appearance: Outwardly wearing a a suit of armour covering him from head to toe that to the view looks intricately and meticulously crafted yet simple at the same time. Underneath he is rumoured to be the most beautiful being in creation, so much so that any who gaze upon this form would go insane. Hence why he wears the armour.

Personality: Whilst a caring god, Kyazir does not coddle or nurture, instead ensuring that his followers succeed on their own merit and rewards them for such. While mostly uninterested in the other gods if they don't have something to offer him. He is intractable as a foe, for who knows how to wage war better than the god of it?

Goals: For the most part, the politics of gods bores Kyazir, who is much more fond of shaping and sculpting worlds and mortals.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Name: Tasatha
Description: The Tasatha are a humanoid species, moderately sized and resistant to magic. The flip side of the magic resistance is that they cannot actually cast spells or manipulate magic in any way. Considered the have a somewhat pleasing aesthetic to most mortal races.
Culture: Culturally, the Tasatha have yet to form much of significance, remaining mostly adaptable in culture.

[snow dwarf]

I'm in sheet coming.

[Demonic Spoon]

God Name: Mo
Spheres: Isolation and Apathy
Appearance: A giant shell without openings
Personality: Mo cares only for his own followers, and would not care if the rest of the world burns.

Name: Tortons
Description: Tortoise people with majestic shells and a gift for magic, especially defensive magic and wards.
Culture: Sedentary individuals that like studying magic and ignoring the problems and plights of non-Tortons from behind thick and high walls. Will generally respond to threats by hunkering in their shells, and on a grander scale, hiding inside their walls and magic defences. They like living in underground fortresses or high up in the mountains.

$$$Pricecheck:
Dimension wall: It costs a minimum of 20 essence for those without Mo's approval to enter the world, or double what it would have cost otherwise if that's more. Mo is alerted of all beings that cross the Dimension Wall
Reality Anchor: Prevents teleportation, portals or instantaneous movement of any sort across the entire world.

[Leonardo8]

Sheet incoming, i liked the previous game.

[snow dwarf]

God Name: Waukahan
Spheres: Afterlife, Spirit World, Balance, Hunting
Appearance: He is seen under many forms, but most usually as a strong man with a head of an eagle. He is often seen by the mortals as a majestic eagle.

Spoiler: to give you a better idea (click to show/hide)

Personality: Waukahan is also known as "the road between lifes" and it is his role to carry the souls of the dead to the afterlife on his giant wings.  He doesn't intervere into the mortal world, unless it is to repair what was broken, and hates other powerful creature that break the balance. He is known to hunt down the major entities that are a hazard to the safety of the universe and thus is usually feared by them. He is known for his knowledge of the spirit world which he often visits.
Goals: Keep the balance in the universe, ((Another secret Goal is gonna be sent to the GM))

((Strongly inspired by Native American mythology))

Spoiler: Race (click to show/hide)

Name: Orathals
Description: Humans, but it's their culture not their looks that make them special.
Culture: The Orathals are simple farmers and hunters heavily centered around their religion. They worship the spirit world and the mighty Eagle-god, this can be seen through many festivals including tribal dances, many holidays, religious hunts etc. They strongly believe in the afterlife and as their creator they have a natural need for balance.

BTW:
I really like how NRDL's god is kind of the opposite of mine and I think it will make a fun story. He will be all about breaking stuff and I will be all about repearing. The same with Demonic Spoon's god. He is centered around his race and I mostly don't care about my race even though they worship me all the time.

[Iituem]

God Name:  Stolen
Spheres:  Theft, Discord, Undeath
Appearance:  A young female member of a species with a quick smile and bright eyes.
Personality:  Stolen is primarily concerned with upsetting boundaries and breaking rules, such as ownership, life and death and appropriate social behaviour.

Name:  Shades
Description:  Amorphous figures with barely tangible forms, shades have the curious property of being nominally invisible except that they do filter enough light to leave a shadow cast by light sources.  They are weak, with their young barely strong enough to lift a feather, but have the curious property of being bodysnatchers - at least of unoccupied bodies.  Corpses can be temporarily inhabited by shades, who are able to trigger the left-over nervous system and musculature to operate them to perform heavy lifting and other physical tasks.  Most shades, especially the young, are extremely fragile and can be destroyed by strong wind, fire or other forms of damage that can disrupt their whole form at once.  The strongest, oldest shades can operate in the common world without needing a body.  Shades feed off living essence, but since most creatures can easily destroy or fend off naked shades they can only really consume essence from very simple life, such as algae and mould (even plants are risky due to the threat of raindrops shattering their forms).  When inhabiting a body they can live off the rot decaying the body itself, or carry decaying meat or plant matter in the bag that used to be the corpse's stomach for consumption.
Culture:  At this early stage of proto-civilisation, clans of shades in migration might look like shambling hordes of zombies; fresh bodies are needed to replace broken, decaying forms that can no longer be effectively puppeted and are essential for reproduction - without deep, dark caves with stable atmospheres new shades can only be spawned in fresh bodies where they will remain safe from the elements until they are strong enough.  Little technology exists, although shades are sapient and fairly communal, and their society consists of bands of roving, shambling hordes reaving enough food and fresh bodies to sustain themselves.

[crazyabe]

PTW, Will sheet in a bit.

[chubby2man]

Name: Rogin
Spheres: Industry, Greed, Drunkness, Earth
Appearance: A giant pillar of stone (granite)
Personality: Rogin was a rather handsome fellow who made an ill advised bet one evening on a six legged horse race one evening. Now he is fated to spend all of eternity in this new world as a giant rock, and is determined to make the most of it.
Goals: Collect the most shiny things, win wagers

Spoiler: Race: Earbola (click to show/hide)

Earbola
Description: These are more proto-dwarves, anyhow. They can consume rock, though they prefer mushrooms, and have a great appreciation for ale. Have a rocky appearance, though their skin is not really stone.
Culture: Heart of their civilization is the Stone of Rogin, which is a large pillar that lies in a cavern below the surface, and emerges to about 5 meters in the air on the surface. They desire to make the most out of every day.

Looks cool!

[crazyabe]

Spoiler: Godism (click to show/hide)

God Name: Netreth
Spere(s): Magic, Chaos, Fire
Appearance: Neterth takes the form of a humanoid, a Ball of fire, and a winged horse, all at the same time, slowly shifting between all three forms.

Spoiler: Racism (click to show/hide)

Name: Oggernth
Description: Large, thickly built creatures with Claws of Stone, Oggernth have but one eye and are built for digging with their bare hands and climing. Oggernth come in a variety of colors, including Red, Maroon, Pink, Dark red, Almost black, and Green.
Culture: Oggernth group together in packs of 6-7 adults and spend their time digging tunnels through the earth or Scratching images into stone.

[AbstractTraitorHero]

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

  God Name: Çupë
Spere(s):Worship. Prayer,Devotion. Obsession. Darkness.
Appearance:
Personality (optional): Solemn they look after their worshiper's with a feverant passion and devotion akin to worship. They are their world their wish's hers. She lives for her followers. They are the gods. She is merely a adoring servant. A adoring servant who will kill...who will murder. Who will do anything for them. A god that is both dark. Evil and monstrous towards those that harm it's follower's. But lovimg comppasionate and obssesive towards it's follower's.

Goals (optional):To forever curb the loneliness and emptiness they feel in their being. To be adored for all time and beloved by all. To be the most loved god. To be
 

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

 Name: Cup's.
Description: Called for their cup like flower's that grow on their onyx body's they are lithe slim and smooth. No jagged edges. Face's that jut about forcefully. Shimmering gemstone lizard's with beautiful moss greenery and plants growing on their form. They feed off the nutrients these plant's give them and in turn protect anf provide a safe place for the plant to grow. A symbiotic relationship. They are as big as a german shepard.
Culture: It is rather simple. Small family herd's compiling of 5 or 6 member's all protect and graze together. They protect eachother's fauna. Help grow fauna on each other's back and genrally work together. They are sentient. But their mind wander's. They seem to greatly appreciate those with a sentiment for plant's or animals that improve the flora's health on their back. (Remember, this is the dawn of time) 

[micelus]

In.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

God Name: Janos
Sphere(s): Art, Industry, Science, Industry, Civilisation. Pragmatism.
Appearance: Janos a two-faced god who's form takes on that of the viewer. In all forms however, some attributes remain consistent. Janos has two faces, golden skin/scales/fur/aqueous mixture/equivalent and a radiant glow. He is nearly always composed in a way that could be perceived to be in a state of meditation. Those who view him are always able to describe him as smiling in an almost paternal way, but at the same time, not-smiling.
Personality (optional): Janos is Order. Janos is Chaos. Janos is Kind. Janos is Cruel. Janos is a Romantic. Janos is a Realist. Janos is Nothing. Janos is All. Janos is the personification of sapient civilisation; the bad and the good. Janos may be kind and offer charity to the beggars and the very next day, hunt them for sport in dark alleyways. In both ways, he demonstrates the multiple moralities that shape and form society, those of pleasure and those of sacrifice.
Goals (optional): Uphold Civilisation.

Spoiler: Species (click to show/hide)

Name: Drachmites
Description: The initial drachmite 'race' is in fact composed of several symbiotic species. They can be divided into three main components. Usuri are almost-hairless ursine bipeds that form majority of a drachmite's physical mass. 10 to 25 small lamprey-like creatures are attached to a usuri's neck from which they siphon nutrients. In-turn, these lampreys are able add their mental processing power to the host's own, allowing a bonded usuri to think and react in ways impossible to non-host usuri. The third main symbiotic 'species' is a colonial organism, that resembles a cross between clams and barnacles, and is attached to the usuri's vestigial tail. This colonial organism is surrounded by a tough oyster-like shell that in time grows to cover much of a drachmite's body, forming a protective armour for the usuri. This armour fails to form if a growing drachmite is unable to secure enough calcium carbonate.While heavy. While the armour becomes increasingly heavy, the colonial creature is able to stimulate increased muscle growth to ensure the usuri is able to continue movement. Drachmites are able to drink seawater.
Culture: Drachmites are nomadic and congregate in small familial groups. In times of great bounty, many drachmites may group up to celebrate, mate, trade or share news and tales. Groups tend to be matriarchal although the matriarch's consorts tend to be almost-equal with the matriarch. Young males often form sub-herds that follow the main familial group from a short distance both to act as rearguards as well as to reduce annoyances to the main group. Sea water holds a special significance to drachmites as a 'flavoured water'.

[Leonardo8]

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

  God Name: Maumanai
Spere(s):Volcanoes, Passion, Love
Appearance: A huge bird made of lava and lapilli.
Personality (optional): The word that best describes Maumanai is passionate. He cares, as deeply as the lava that is his domain flows under the earth. He does not pay any attention to empty rituals, but will always listen to an heartfelt prayer. He wants his faithful to be consumed by the fires of passion, wheter it is for another person, or for a more abstract endeavor, like arts ore science. Passion is all that matters. His anger is slow to rouse, but when provoked it erupts with a violence that shakes continents.
Goals (optional):To spread the fires of passion to all sentient beings, to see his followrs flourish and prosper and in love.
 

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

 Name: Kilaweas
Description: A plant-like race, they are well adapted to tropical climates. They have a roboust stem with wide leaves  that ends in a huge and colorfoul flower-like structure, whith a pattern unique to each individual.The flower is actally a deadly predatory organ,and its extremely sharp petals close with tremendous force on any available source of food.  They are surprinsingly fast thanks to their four root-like branched  tentacles that help them slither on the ground and allow them to manipulate things.  They are omnivorous with a strong preference towards meat and have a tremendous appetites, but when there is shortage of food they can enter a dormant state where they suck nutrients off the grounds like true plants. In this state however their thoghts are slower,  as if they were drowsy at the  best and often thy fall asleep.Their communication is based on smell, not sound, which is slower but allows thm to convey very subtle variations of meaning. They are ermaphrodites and aftet they reproduce by pollinating each other in their real flowers, much smaller and non-descript. After these flowers became big fruits full of seeds that the parents plant all together.
Culture: The Kilaweas live in small nomadic tribes . After their seeds are planted the Kilawea tribes leave the elders behind to care for the young saplings. The elders enter in statis, only to reawaken when the saplings emerge from the ground. They provide for them and teach them everything they need to know. After enough time has passed the tribe returns to the planting spot (each tribe has their own, and sometimes bitter wars are fought for the best planting spots), to reunite with the youngs and absorb them in the tribe and plant new seeds so the cycle can begi anew. The elders usually die soon after. The Kilawea like hunting, but, they are also starting to develop a primitive form of poetry based on pleasant smells. They are not usually monogamous, although it is not weird to have one or two favourite pollination partners.   

[Roboson]

Wow 10 entries! I didn't think I'd have that many people interested. Hmmm... I'll have to think about how many players I can handle.

In the meantime: I'm going to try and parse out a few rules.

Old Rules:

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.



New Rules:

Magic
25 points: A source of magic (lay lines, magic crystals, giant tree, solar power, free floating mana, ect. ect.)
15 points: A minor spell of your design.
10 points: A minor spell designed by your people with some of your influence.
*Magic is going to be balanced by me to prevent OP spells from winning the game. Magic is mortal, and unlike divinity, not perfect.

Resurrection:
Can be done on historical figures only. So heroes, demi-gods, monstrosities, that sort of thing. Cost is 75% of original cost rounded up.

Heros
5-10 points (case by case basis): A mortal which you can influence and communicate with directly.

Divine Shield
1) Assets belonging to another god are covered by a divine shield, which prevents uncounterable attacks against player assets. Throwing a mountain at enemy civilization? Ok. Instantaneously teleporting a mountain around enemy civilization killing them instantly? Not ok.
2) Any time a large number of your worshipers, species of which you are patron to, artifact, significant area, hero, or other significant aspect is in immediate danger. A god is given the opportunity to protect that asset. This does not guarantee that they will be able to protect them, or that their