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Sarenrae actually has a bit of this going on with some of her clergy: Some priests' skin will gradually grow extremely dark as if from the most hardcore tanning ever or will grow extremely pale, as if the color were bleached out of their skin by the sun.
That's the only spontaneous change I can think of mentioned for the Inner Sea gods off the top of my head.
So, 'human' or something else might be the default race, and each other race is associated with a deity? You could definitely make a world work with this. It would make it immediately obvious who someone worships.
Those guys over there are goblins. Therefore, they worship the god of mayhem and arson. If they didn't, they wouldn't be goblins. It'd be hard to have a sympathetic 'monster' character unless the gods are very lenient regarding what amount of worship is required.
I dunno much about Wakfu except that it's French.
Am I the only one who's seeing some disturbing implications in this idea?
I think I know what you mean.
Race in this context would mean a totally different thing than it does in the real world or even in conventional Pathfinder, but the implications would be difficult to avoid.
Perhaps, you could ensure that ethnic race is retained regardless of 'divine aspect', to distinguish between the two.
Also, I could have use for an idea like this despite the somewhat bothersome implications.
I can really call humanity out on being evil, since their patron in 3.5e was a Lawful Evil speciesist.
Or have multiple gods for each race.
For a 3.5 using this rule, people that worship Elistraee turn into drow, and so do those that worship Lolth.
You meet a drow on the road. There's no knowing if he/she is good or evil. Or neutral (one step removed).
I might allow that for other races, drow being a good example.
However, I hate my own kind too much to give humanity that luxury ;D
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Perhaps, you could ensure that ethnic race is retained regardless of 'divine aspect', to distinguish between the two.
Ethnic race + divinely granted template?
Like say, Gozreh worshippers get leaf hair. You would still be able to tell a Mwangi human from a Chelish human from a gnome, but you'd also be able to tell they were all Gozreh worshippers because of the leaf hair.
Pathfinder and D&D work with the whole "good vs evil / law vs chaos" shtick.
Perhaps, you could ensure that ethnic race is retained regardless of 'divine aspect', to distinguish between the two.Ethnic race + divinely granted template?
Like say, Gozreh worshippers get leaf hair. You would still be able to tell a Mwangi human from a Chelish human from a gnome, but you'd also be able to tell they were all Gozreh worshippers because of the leaf hair.
I think it might be more extreme than that, like Gozreh worshippers becoming Ghorans, while followers of Gorum turn into Orcs.
In that case, you'd get Chelish humans turning into Chelish orcs if they chose to worship Gorum.
Which gods would 'claim' which races? Or the other way around? What happens to Rahadoum?
Edit: Normally I'm rather bothered by Calistria's 'mean girl' schtick, but if she's granting divine hotness to followers, well... that's another story. ;D
Though what would Calistria's worshippers become; sexy elves? XD
I'd rather name the "generic" race "the faithless", and maybe have Mongrelfolk hold that role?
And yeah, Razmir would be exposed as a fake god unless he creates his own race of followers or something.
He is a level 19th Wizard, after all. I wouldn't find it too far-fetched for him to transform his worshippers via arcane magic.
Since Razmir has access to 9th level spell, he might have used a Wish to transform all his followers.
Maybe he carried it a bit further, and made it so that anyone who converts will also transform that way.
That, or maybe he created his own, 9th level version of the Greater Polymorph spell that only affects Razmiri.
Dot for later.
What does everyone think about this?
I think it sounds pretty cool, I like the idea that your life style and magic changes you. One thought though, is that not every character with a patron lives by the lifestyle of their deity.
Would be kind of difficult to hide if you start worshiping Sarenrae and your hair starts burning...
Would be kind of difficult to hide if you start worshiping Sarenrae and your hair starts burning...
The trick is to wear a nice hat.