Lords of Creation

Game Master stringburka

Uh, the idea was that Melehan was leaving his place to meet the other gods in their places. I'm not sure where you got the idea that Melehan was inviting the other gods to the Amaranthine again...

Easily solved: Melehan, just stroll in and compliment my furniture or something when you're ready!

I don't want to be inconsistent, but the tedious job of capitalizing the pronouns in reference to us gods is killing me. I've given it up!

Hey steven, I'd like to get to join your pantheon before the next rollover, if possible. If you have time, of course.

We're waiting for Melehan, but of course that makes the most sense. Hopefully he buys what Azdan is selling today and we mak have it on place.

To save you some time, Melehan IS going to say yes. I thought we'd have more time to roleplay. :blush:

Well...we could also have roleplayed more scenes, and of course nothing stops us from continuing our scene. You're close to getting me to create living minions and generally avoiding the use of undead in most circumstances.

I'm looking to create psychopomps soon too.

Aww...behave yourself!

Wanted to check out with Aeon and the mods.
First with Aeon ... of course Jezebelle being Jezebelle tried to circumvent your "don't touch my angels" and triet a way to produce angels of her own out of Ellazariel. I hope you are ok as a player (Aeon is probably not ok with that :P)

Also .. wanted to check with the mods to know if Jezebelle is now to be considered a lesser deity having just gained her fourth domain.

Pardon?

Pardon?

the way I understand it. Once a god reaches the minimum domains for a divine rank they reach that divine rank.

I thought we had something along the lines of "Pay 6 AP to ascend a rank after having all the domains, and you can do it only every 6 weeks"?

I thought we had something along the lines of "Pay 6 AP to ascend a rank after having all the domains, and you can do it only every 6 weeks"?

Right .. saw it now in the recruitment session .. I totally missed that, I usually look at the wiki for the rules. (btw I think the points are 5)

Meanwhile .. I'm starting to write articles on wordpress.
For now I wrote about the Jezites, I plan to do blood magic and vampires next
Let me know if something is wrong/missing

As a player that is what I expected and I am ok with it! Wouldn't have given her otherwise.

So to become a more powerful god I have to spend points to get more domains, correct? I was originally under the impression that you got your new rank and THEN picked your new domains.

Every AP action can be counted as towards a domain, and you must spend 7 AP towards a domain before you can use the 3 AP action to gain a new domain.

Nope, you first need the minimum domains and then spend (5?) points. And only after 6 weeks of play as your current rank (this keeps the game goin more linearly and prevents exponential growth of those first to reach lesser diet status). I dont know owlong weve played now though, a month?

Btw, Oenar has had secret talks with Azdan and is joining their pantheon, but thee was no good in-game opportunity to have an open discussion about it. But yeah, oenar spends her last AP at joining the pantheon. My internet at home is stone dead though, so i only hve my phone, and dont know when im goig to be able to write ingame posts. If i havent fixed the internet by tomorrow, ill haveto go to a public libraray (long live sweden an public libraries in every part of town with free internet).

Oh didnt mean nope, meant yep. XD

So to become a more powerful god I have to spend points to get more domains, correct? I was originally under the impression that you got your new rank and THEN picked your new domains.

yes,that's the idea.

So I haven't gotten anywhere because I haven't really DONE anything because I've been trying to build up points to make big sweeping changes all at once, righT?

I dont remember exactly what domains you possess but i can see several things youve spebt points on that could be relevant; creation (weave plane), souls (create concept), wisdom (crystal seer), or probably many other things im not thinking about.

Or perhaps "eternity"? I dunno, just brainstorming.

So I liked the idea of giving people gifts, and decided to run with it. plus, (as mentioned in my latest post) I'm gunning for the life domain. I'll get the rest of my gifts done when I have more AP next week (my plans for gifts are: writing for Jezebelle, an order of undead hunters for Melehan, and....well, I'm not sure what to give Nicos, since he is as close to my opposite as you can get.

So I liked the idea of giving people gifts, and decided to run with it. plus, (as mentioned in my latest post) I'm gunning for the life domain. I'll get the rest of my gifts done when I have more AP next week (my plans for gifts are: writing for Jezebelle

I already have that since first week.

I think each profile ought to have a list of activity and points they consider toward domains. Melehan probably has the ability to spend a lot of points toward a domain or two. Keeping track of those helps you know when you're ready to buy the new domain.

A second advantage, since some of us moderate the game, is it allows players to request an explanation for how a decree or creation might tie into that domain. It's easy to say "death must be feared" and score a point for fear. If you say "I made mammoths, point for Law!", that could use a little explanation. Although in this example I'm sure everyone thought the explanation was reasonable.

Snrk. Gave me nothing. I found that hilarious.

Also, yes, it's been 4 weeks. Rollover has occurred so everyone gets 4 AP again!

I think each profile ought to have a list of activity and points they consider toward domains. Melehan probably has the ability to spend a lot of points toward a domain or two. Keeping track of those helps you know when you're ready to buy the new domain.

A second advantage, since some of us moderate the game, is it allows players to request an explanation for how a decree or creation might tie into that domain. It's easy to say "death must be feared" and score a point for fear. If you say "I made mammoths, point for Law!", that could use a little explanation. Although in this example I'm sure everyone thought the explanation was reasonable.

actually I thing I was wondering. Isn't better to list actions on the domain rather that write the desired domain on the list. Because, correct me if I'm wrong, but it looks to me like a single action could be counted for several domains.

Ok so I'm confused a bit.

So RAW = every action that isn't the "Gain domain" action can count towards a domain. Your then spend the 3 AP on the Gain Domain action. When your deity gains enough domains they advance in rank.

Our Homebrew = the same thing with the addition of "You can only rank up once every 6 weeks and must spend an additional 5? 6? AP to gain the rank up, added to the cost of gaining the domains themselves?

To become a lesser deity, we have to pay to graduate, yes. Aside from the cost of gaining domains.

It's totally right that a single action might earn points towards synergistic domains. That's one good reason to offer an explanation for what you want to progress toward.

It's not perfect, and looks a little rough, but check out Azdan's profile as a possible example.

that's nice, I'm going to add it to my profile.
I will probably add up to it because like Melehan, I don't yet what kind a domain will I gain in the future from a action of 3 weeks ago. :P

My domains are Death (Afterlife, Funerals, Repose), Law (Consequence, Justice). I should probably do some Law things and afterlife things.

I don't really even remember how many points I have.

31 points total minus whatever you've spent

15 Starting
+
4 weeks at 4 AP a week = 16

=31

Actually, Melehan has 32 minus what he's spent; he's part of a pantheon with 3 members this rollover.

BTW, I wonder how the mortals count time? There isn't any sun (is there?), and while the winter moon has an inner glow and slowly turns around the world (about one circle per month?) and it's quite easy to measure in generations what would other means of determining time be?

For the indar, I assume fire would be central, so perhaps they'd measure time in burnable material?

Something like
A generation - about 20 human years
A month - a moon turn, equal to a real-life month
An oak - how long an oak log burns, about 10 hours real-life time
A birch - how long a birch log burns, about 3 hours real-life time
A branch - a short period of time, about 10 minutes

which pantheons are active right now and who created them?
I have trouble finding all the creations of pantheons and the joinings.

I know that Oenar either wanted to start one, or did and I didn't join; I think that team death has started a pantheon as well.

We're not team death. : )

I don't know,of anotber pantheon. But I have interest in a particular pair of groupings that will tell a neat cultural story.

fine then, team entropy =P

As far as I know, the only functional pantheon is Oenar+Azdan+Melehan. In addition, Aeon has used gather pantheon, but there isn't anyone else in his pantheon so it doesn't really do anything.

No one wants to hang out with the good guy. Although I think Jezebelle is joining/ has joined, I'm not sure if she spent the 1 or 2 AP or not, but come on one more person!

Well, if somebody cared to ask the lonely little girl who just wants to make friends that don't explode on her... XD

Aeon....a few things have changed since you first asked. We should talk in character about it. Light and Dark are a pretty natural pantheon fit. Just not sure how I'd want to approach it.

TO me a pantheon, is as much about the culture below as us up above. How do the mortals see it? Are we worshiped by aasimar and tieflings set apart from humans? Is the day yours and the night mine? How dat work? Thoughts?

Jezebelle planned to join you, but she feels kinda threatened by Aeon. She would love to bring a more akin deity with her, the problem is ... there is no akin deity, maybe Erande but he always play with Oenar.
Poor poor Jezebelle...
(by the way, i feel Azdan came to tempt her to join his pantheon. So I think it really comes down to how much will he be able to make her feel accepted)

Then let's talk it out!

umh ... I think that if inviting Jezebel to your pantheon was your intention you should ... umh .. mention it

Just building relationships. There's nothing intrinsic about the north for Azdan to invite Jezebelle, but maybe a different pantheon. We haven't talked in character so I wanted to fix that and find a little common ground.

I'm curious to know what she thinks about it in character.

Yeah, if that's going to become a inherently northern pantheon I do agree...

BTW... I really feel we need to recruit some more gods in the game.
there is very little happening and also, there are a lot of "missing concepts".
Should we up the recruitment topic? or maybe make one entirely new linking the old one (people tend to avoid old recruitment topic thinking they are already full).

I think we have to be careful adding more people. Some portfolios are missing, but more people means needing more moderation, more defined rules, etc. We're flying by the seat of our pants as it is.

And if one more person decides their super awesome followers don't have to die, Azdan's gonna throw. : )