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[Jerick]

I've been wanting to run a god game for a while now so I'd thought I'd give it go. What's different in this game is that going overboard with your god powers will cause Calamities to occur. Calamities can be a good thing but mostly they can disrupt everyone's plans. Greater Calamities are potentially be very disruptive. Now I've tried to explain the rules as clearly as I could but I am rather bad at explaining things so if you have any questions feel free to ask.

Spoiler: Rules (click to show/hide)

Acts
Acts are how Gods interact with the world around them. Now the rules for acts will be a pretty familiar to many veteran god game players but this time there is a few twists on the old formula.

Minor Acts:
All gods can use minor acts freely. Minor acts are very small scale changes such as repairing the wheel of a cart, healing a single sick creature or mortal, giving a meaningful dream to a mortal (it’ll a little scrambled and may come out differently than intended)  or to move your god to another area. You can use as many minor acts in a turn as you wish (so long as you don’t get too silly with how many you’re doing)

Acts:
All gods have a limited number of acts. How many acts you have depends on your worshippers. You can gain acts over time dependant on how much they think about you. Having more worshippers increases the number of acts you can store. If you lose worshippers to the point you can store less acts than you have you keep those acts until they are used. Acts are capable of doing all kinds of things; Making artifacts, making Servants, creating new species of animals and plants, spawning forests, limited terraforming and countless other effects. However acts are still small scale enough that they can only affect one area at a time and for some reason they cannot be used to create mortals (mortals are anything that is capable of worship)

Great Acts:
Sometimes you need to change the world and for that Acts are just not enough. Great acts can affect the whole world and can make major changes allowing gods to terraform continents, create the most powerful of artifacts, create a mortal race and other wonders. All gods can only store one great act at a time. In order to gain a great act thousands of worshippers must partake in some form of ritual (the nature and form of the ritual is decided by the god in question) around an impressive monument to the god attempting to gain the great act.


Acts as health
A god’s power and vitality are measured in how many acts they have stored. To damage a god requires considerable force. As a guideline it’d take about an act’s worth of force to deal an act’s worth of damage. If a god takes an acts worth of damage they lose an act. If a god exhausts all their acts they have three turns to gain a new one before they fade away. During this time they can still use minor acts freely but cannot be damaged further. If a god would take more than an act’s worth of damage in a turn they still only lose a single act.


Artifacts
Artifacts are powerful magical objects that can affect the world in potent ways. Gods, their Servants, their mortal followers and heroes (heroes are NPC mortals who can only be indirectly nudged to go the way you want them to) can all wield artifacts. Each artifact has a passive ability and an active ability. The range and the effect of the abilities will vary between artifacts but whenever the active ability is used the artifact is lost. Lost artifacts can be found randomly by mortals and heros. Artifacts can be stolen, their owner can be convinced to side with you or any other of the thousands of possible ways to get control of it that I haven’t thought off. At the start of the game there will be no artifacts but as it progresses gods and mortals will create new items that affect the game. Edit: when making an artifact you are encouraged to describe it in detail and the GM decide the actual rules it follows.
Example Artifact; Ring of protection, Passive:The wielder of this ring is unaffected by any lesser calamity that happens in the area they occupy.
Active: Lose this ring to stop a target servant, mortal or hero from being killed. (they do not have to be in the same area) Or to stop your god from taking damage.


Servants
What is a god without their servants? Acts are precious, Servants provide a subtler more expendable way to influence and shape the world. Mortals are hard to create but Servants are an extension of the god and can be created with normal acts. When created the god must decide on the speciality of each servant.Some examples of specialties are; Fighting, Stealing and Preaching. But there are many more possibilities besides. The god must also choose how many servants they are creating. For every act they spend creating their servants (you can use multiple acts to create the one servant if you choose) the god has 9 points to distribute. One point must be paid per Servant created and the remaining points spent to increase the power of their specialities. Servants can have more than one speciality but you must pay for each speciality separately, in a contest only the value of the relevant speciality matters but for all other effects the power value is the total of all their specialities.

Example; Two acts are used granting 18 points to spend. Two Servants are created (-2 points) one servant gets 8 points on fighting (-8 points, 8 left) and two points on preaching (-2 points, 6 left) and the other servant gets 6 points on construction (-6 points nothing left)
Which gives one servant that is an 8/2 fighter/preacher with a power value of 10 and a 6 constructor with a power value of 6.

Manifestations, upkeep and death
When first created all Servants are unmanifested. Unmanifested servants cannot wield artifacts or influence anything but in turn they cannot be influenced by anything in turn (except for a calamity). In order to make them useful they need to be manifested but to do so takes magic the power value determines if the Servant can be kept manifested without upkeep. The default is six or lower however the tides of magic can ebb and flow allowing more powerful entities to exist or sometimes limiting what can be manifested. Manifesting a Servant that is below the upkeep requirements is a minor act. If a Servant has been unmanifested by something (rather than killed) such as by lowered magic levels then you are capable of summoning it again instantly. However if a servant is killed or banished you will need to wait a number of turns equal to their total power value to summon them again. More powerful Servants beyond what the tides of magic can support can be manifested if the god devotes some of their energy to it. Manifesting an upkeep requiring Servant needs an act and so long as you are sustaining it you cannot use minor acts. You can unmanifest it at will and can have as many upkeep requiring servants as you are willing to spend acts on. However when calculating Calamities each upkeep requiring Servant counts as an act each turn.

Contests
Contests are when two or more servants clash in their area of expertise. In a contest the total values in the speciality of all the servants on one side is compared to the total of the other side with the higher number winning. In combat contests it is much the same except for each point over the enemy the weakest enemy servant (or mortal warrior) is killed. In a contest with a god, the god’s power value is equal to the number of acts they have stored x10 also in a combat contest beating a god’s power value by 10 or over will deal one act’s worth of damage anything less will have no effect.


Calamities
There are three tiers of calamities; Lesser Calamities, Calamities and Greater Calamities. Calamities are caused by the inherent damage your abilities do to reality and the stresses your acts put the world under. The game is split up into different areas (yes you can make new areas if you wish) and the more acts that are used in an area in a turn the more chance for a calamity to happen. Minor acts are so small they don’t affect calamities at all however; 3 acts used in the same area on the same turn will cause a random Lesser Calamity to be drawn.
6 acts used in the same area on the same turn will cause a random Calamity to be drawn.
12 acts used in the same area on the same turn will cause a random Greater Calamity to be drawn.
For the purposes of calculating Calamities great acts count as four regular acts so a lesser calamity is inevitable whenever they are used.

Causing Calamities for fun and profit
There’s many different reasons why you might want to trigger a calamity or two. There’s two ways you can do it targeted or random. Targeted is where you select exactly which calamity you want but it costs one act for Lesser Calamities and great act for Calamities. (you can never pick greater Calamities) When targeting calamities if the calamity has the text: if this was drawn when drawing multiple lesser calamities discard this and draw again, you cannot pick it. With random you draw a random calamity as if you had triggered one normally. You can use a minor act to draw a random lesser calamity (only once per turn). You can use an act to draw a random calamity and a great act to draw a random greater calamity.

Harmony and dissonance
Acts that are opposed to other acts cause more disruption than acts that work well with the other acts. Two opposing acts counts as three acts when calculating calamities (two opposing great acts count as three great acts in much the same way) but two acts that support each other being used in the same turn count as one act for calculating calamities.

Newer rulings
Edit:Mortals can only be changed be a god they already worship otherwise the changes are temporary.

Spoiler: Lesser Calamities (click to show/hide)

Earthquakes
The ground around where the action that triggered it shakes and rumbles. Buildings collapse and trees are knocked down. Small hills can form where there none before.

Storm
Lightning strikes tall objects and powerful winds rip through the area for several days.

Rain Storm
Several days of endless rain pour down on the area causing flooding

Nothing
Nothing happens

Through the crack a glimpse
A rift in reality opens up only for a second only to be forced shut immediately by unknown forces. You do not yet understand the beyond realms and so the significance of this is currently lost on you

Lesser Curse of undeath
A small number of the more recently dead mortals and creatures in the area rise from the dead and begin terrorising the living

A hero's birth
A mortal is born who is immune to the direct actions of the gods

Plague
Many mortals in the area are struck with an illness

Innovative discovery
Something is discovered by the mortals (decided by GM)

Small Meteorite
A meteor falls from the sky shrouded in fire and slams into the ground destroying whatever it hits. It bears a small amount of a special metal.

Sudden growth
There is a sudden spike in plant fertility and growth speed

Religious schism
A splinter of an existing religion in the area is changed and splits off forming a new religion. If no religion exists a new one will form

Swarm of animals
A swarm of aggressive animals fill the region causing damage depending on the nature of the creature.

Mutation
An existing animal or plant species mutates creating a new species.

Famine
Growth is stunted. Food is scarce and starvation is common.

Magical Upsurge
A period of increased power for anything magical. For the duration Servants of power 7 and lower can be manifested without upkeep.

Magical Drought
Magic is weaker for a while. For the duration Servants of power 5 and lower can be manifested without upkeep.


Unexpected Calamity
Draw a calamity (if this was drawn when drawing multiple lesser calamities discard this and draw again)

Chain of Lesser Calamities
Draw two more lesser Calamities  (if this was drawn when drawing multiple lesser calamities discard this and draw again)

The work of a smith
An artifact comes into being it’s nature dependant on the people there to craft it (if there are any there to craft it if not it’ll be something more natural) what’s been going on and resources in the area. It’ll be neutral and up for grabs to the god that can claim it. (If there is a calamity that stops artifacts from working this calamity is canceled and does nothing)

Spoiler: Calamities (click to show/hide)

Meteor storm
Meteors of different sizes rain down from the sky blasting craters across the area. The bombardment continues for many days. Each meteor carries a small amount of sky metal.

Volcanic Eruption
A volcanic eruption occurs in the area. Spewing lava across the landscape and pumps thick poisonous clouds of volcanic ash into the sky.

Unnatural Growth
Plants grow suddenly and relentlessly, rapidly covering everything in sight.

Rift to the Unborn Ones
A large rift to the beyond realms opens for a minute or two. Perhaps long enough for something to crossover?

Swarm of Lesser Calamities
Draw 6 lesser calamities  (if this was drawn when drawing multiple calamities discard this and draw again)

Chain of disasters
Draw 2 Calamities  (if this was drawn when drawing multiple calamities discard this and draw again)

Greater Curse of Undeath
Everything dead in the area rises to attack the living. Anything that dies afterward joins the undead. This includes severed limbs and body parts. This calamity only ends when the undead are exterminated

Age of Innovation
Revolutionary new ideas are spreading through the mortals. This will likely change how the mortals see the world, themselves and most importantly you.

Great magical Drought
The flow of magic stops almost completely. Creatures that rely on magic die. Artifacts do not work. No magic can be cast. (The Gods are divine your powers are not magic so Acts are still possible) This lasts until another calamity changes the magic level. For the duration no Servants can be manifested without upkeep.

Age of Wonders
A number of beasts appear changed by magic into something more powerful, magic is everywhere and very powerful, even those nearly unattuned to it can use freely. Artifacts are created at random as long as this is in effect. Heroes can appear without warning. This lasts until another calamity changes the magic level. For the duration Servants of power 14 and lower can be manifested without upkeep.

Mortal Mutations
A new species of mortals emerges. It’s nature depends on the environment they emerged in, how much magic there is and a variety of other factors.

Permanent Storm
A permanent storm forms in the area which can only be dispersed by a great act. While it is in effect there is constant lightning strikes, howling wind and thick black clouds. The area is covered by darkness until it is undone.

Period of Stability
Until after someone next draws a calamity (not a lesser calamity) all events are drawn from one tier lower than they should (lesser calamities aren’t drawn at all). This includes intentional calamities.

The burning heat
The weather in the area turns scorching hot until a rain storm is drawn.

An Age of ignorance
Innovative ideas are forgotten or suppressed. Many records of past knowledge are destroyed by the mortals as a wave of anti intellectual sentiment sweeps through mortal civilisations (if there are any). While this is in effect the Innovative discovery calamity has no effect. This will be undone if an age of Innovation is drawn

A Time of Gods and Spirits
All gods gain an additional act per turn regardless of other circumstances this lasts until a hero is born.

Plague of Dire Animals
Large, powerful and aggressive animals are swarming. They are much larger and more powerful than their regular counterparts.

Poison Rain
A black rain falls polluting rivers and pools. Any animal or mortal who drinks water contaminated with the black rain will die.

Wave of Peace
Until the next calamity is drawn none of the mortals feel like being violent. Ongoing fights or wars between mortals are put on hold until the calamity is over.

The Greatest Servants
A random god can manifest one servant and ignore upkeep requirements on it. This lasts until another Calamity is drawn.

Spoiler: Greater Calamities (click to show/hide)

Age of Calamities
A new calamity is drawn every turn until a new greater Calamity is drawn. Draw three Calamities when you draw this.

Invasion of the Unborn
The wall between this world and the beyond has been ripped asunder and the Unborn are pouring in. Good luck.

Rise of the God Eaters
You don’t know what they are or where they came from. Some primal part of you knows almost instinctively to be afraid. They seek you tirelessly, they desire to feed off of you and are completely immune to the works of gods altogether. Only heroes can slay these terrifying monsters. (yes to confirm this event can kill gods)

Mass extinction
Plants wither and die, thousands of animals keel over and die. Numerous species go extinct including mortal species if they are unable to cope with the loss of food. This is only canceled when the Unnatural Growth calamity gets drawn

Red Sky
The sky turns blood red and everything that has a mind and isn’t a god or a hero becomes extremely violent towards everything else that moves. This can only be ended with a great act.

Age of Darkness
The skies darken, the sun will not shine until this calamity ends. Every area is hit with a greater Greater Curse of Undeath calamity and this calamity will not end until they have all been dealt with.

Ragnarök
All restrictions on manifesting servants are lifted and servants cannot be unmanifested while this calamity is in place. Servants that are unmanifested are manifested in the area occupied by their god as soon as they are available. This calamity only ends when every god has taken at least one act worth of damage since it started. During this each god receives a great act each turn

Spoiler: character sheet (click to show/hide)

Name:
Sphere:
Description:

Spoiler: waiting list (click to show/hide)

1) Madman(Thyre)
2)Dextoicated(Zamboni)

IC thread
Discord

[micelus]

Name: Margor
Sphere: Beasts, Improvement
Description: "Must improve. Must defeat. Need essence-matter..."

Margor is a  five-headed chimera consisting of a crow, wolf, leopard, auroch, and snake. Shee is a beast of a god as comfortable on two legs as she is on four. Brutal, cunning, wise, determined and patient, she seeks the domination of the world not just for herself, but for nature's greatness. In all ways, this must be done by constant improvement, by constant testing and competition where only the best lead.

Alternatively...

Name: Astarth
Sphere: the Moon, Night, Moon, Love, Outcasts
Description: "A world bewitched by reality; a world scorned by creativity. By dream I come to cure disease awoken by the sun, in hope of days awash in moonglow nights."

Astarth is the regal and eccentric White Lady, she who rules over the moons and she who bends their light and mass to her will. This said, she is not a harsh mistress, for she considers herself a patron of love. To love is the strongest of all emotions, and to love those considered Outcasts by society and the world, is the greatest love of them all. As such, under her dominion, the night is not a time of fear or hiding, but of gentle love and acceptance. Or at least, this is what she tries to accomplish.

[Glass]

Name: Acter
Sphere: Improvement and Science
Description: The single most important thing to Acter is the mortals' ability to improve themselves and the world around them regardless of divine interference. He prefers to interact more subtly with reality, tending to work through heroes and directed lesser calamities.
Appearance: He appears like the most basic sketch of a humanoid figure, including all the lines artists use to set proportions on the face.
EDIT:

Spoiler: Appearance (click to show/hide)

[Arkitekt]

ptw

[NUKE9.13]

Hmm, hmm.

Name: Exkit
Sphere: Fire (& Smithing, if secondary spheres are OK)
Description: Exkit burns with a desire to see the world engulfed in flames. Yet flames require fuel, and Exkit knows this- he constantly seeks to quench his destructive desires, lest there be nothing left to burn. Indeed, he seeks to encourage creation and growth where he can, serving as the patron of smiths. But inevitably, he eventually loses control, and all that he has wrought, all that he has protected, goes up in flames. These fires burn themselves out, in time, and Exkit mourns the losses, attempting to undo the damage.
Exkit manifests as fire incarnate, roiling flames and molten rock swirling around in the shape of a man. However, his self-control sees him clad in something resembling a suit of armour, plates of obsidian covering the fire within, leaving only a handful of cracks through which the inferno may be glimpsed.

[codybob1999]

Name: Gnyr
Sphere: Food and Cooking
Description: Gnyr is obsessed with seeing the most perfect meal being made.
Appearance: He looks like a fat male of indeterminate skin color, is always seen eating a meat of an unknown origin.


Edit: That better?

[NUKE9.13]

Name: ATH
Sphere: Food and Cooking
Description: ATH is obsessed with seeing the most perfect meal being made.
Appearance: He looks like a fat male of indeterminate skin color, is always seen eating a meat of an unknown origin.

Eh, about that name. It is possible that someone called AbstractTraitorHero will want to join this game, in which case having a god called ATH will be confusing as all getout.

[snow dwarf]

Reserved, will PM the GM about my character.

[Jerick]

Acter and Astarth are in (seeing as how having two gods of improvement might be awkward)
Exkit is interesting with the whole cyclical struggle with his own destructive nature and is also in.
ATH may find it hard to get worshipers when competing with the other gods but you probably knew that when you made him so your in.

[micelus]

I'm not exactly seeing what's wrong with having the same spheres but ok.

[Ghazkull]

Uhh fancy, i like the mechanics.

Several Questions though: how do mortals work in conjunction with Servants/Gods, as in can mortals for example fight and bring down Servants, or are they basically screwed?

Servants: what prevents me from manifesting the Slayer of Gods powerlevel 18 fighting (for example) and just go around murdering every other Servant in the area? Can they escape? Avoid combat?

Gods: what happens after a god loses a fight against a servant below 10 power difference? Is he banished to somewhere, is he penalized in any way?

If you'll have me i'd really like to join btw.

[Glass]

I think describing Margor as "improvement" may have been a bit of a misnomer. At the very least, it's a very different kind from Acter's improvement.

Acter is about the study of the world, and using both science and magic to become smarter, and creating things to overcome your weaknesses. Protect yourself from that which may harm you, and turn it toward your own purposes.

Margor seems more like survival of the fittest, forcing nature to improve as the weak die out. Stronger, deadlier, those are the ways he makes his creations. Become stronger than your enemies and destroy them.

Two very different approaches to the sphere of improvement, and unlikely to be confused. Think civilization versus nature, how civilizations improve together while nature improves in pieces.

[Roboson]

Gonna try something different here. If you don't think it'll mesh well, then strength god is my back up.

Name: Lu
Sphere: Caeterus (The Other)
Description: Lu is an usual god. He reigns over something called the caeterus, a strange alien force which twists reality and nature into some unusual otherworldly landscape. The nature equivalent of antimatter, the Other and Nature cannot coexist very well, often converting large swathes of Nature until it loses momentum and recedes back, leaving deadlands between itself and its opposing force.

[NUKE9.13]

Name: Gnyr
Sphere: Food and Cooking
Description: ATH Gnyr is obsessed with seeing the most perfect meal being made.
Appearance: He looks like a fat male of indeterminate skin color, is always seen eating a meat of an unknown origin.


Edit: That better?

Yeah, thanks. I mean, ATH (the forum user) might not even join this game, but they've joined the previous two godgames that popped up, so it can't hurt to be safe, you know?

Exkit is interesting with the whole cyclical struggle with his own destructive nature and is also in.

Hopefully, yeah.

ATH Gnyr may find it hard to get worshipers when competing with the other gods but you probably knew that when you made him so your in.

How's that? People gotta eat, right? Sure, it might not be as flashy as some other spheres, but it covers a very basic mortal need. (Also, codybob changed the name to Gnyr, in case you missed it)

[codybob1999]

Yeah I get what you were saying NUKE9.13