Hello everyone! I'm making a deity for a campaign I'm running, and I'm having an extremely hard time with doing it. I figured I would seek out help here, since I'm at a loss of what else to do or even where to start. So, to give you all an idea of what I'm trying to create, here's a brief description of what the deity is.
His name is "Graves" and he is known as "The Legendary Amarok." Amaroks are creatures that have souls that are too large to inhabit a single body. So they often have dozens, hundreds, or even millions of other bodies that collectively house their soul. Graves is an Amarok who became a deity, as the backstory of my campaign.
He's a collective of wolves and dire wolves, and I'm seeking to make him a CR 50 creature with the Mythic and Swarm subtype. However, Swarms are only for Tiny or smaller creatures, so I'm at a loss for how to do this. Also, I have no clue how to make a deity. I used to play 3.5 Dungeons and Dragons and it seems the entire process of making a deity is different.
Any help would be amazing! Thanks!
CR 50 is basically meaningless in PF. Not that it isn't in 3.5, but PF doesn't pretend to have rules past level 20.
So before you start you need to define what sort of characters you mean this to be a challenge to. What does 'CR 50' mean to you?
Don't mechanically represent your god. Simply declare they are and have them do things. That's literally all you need to do. To have it fit in with other PF gods, that's all you should do, as well.
to extend on what Buri said- the second you give your god stats is the second players try to kill them.
My group and I use the rules described here... Rules For Character Advancement for continuing past 20th level. We've been playing our current campaign for about 8 months and the players are moving along rather quickly. I hope to end the campaign when the players reach level 45. But I wanted to have the party actually confront the main antagonist at the end, which is the deity I was attempting to make.
I understand most people don't play past 20 because they dislike math, but just about every campaign we've played has gone past 20 at some point. A few even started after 20. However, we switched to Pathfinder about a year and a half ago, and I'm not familiar with how to make powerful creatures or deities in Pathfinder.
So... A CR 50 to me means a creature that a party of 4 level 50 characters would be a fair match for.
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Don't mechanically represent your god. Simply declare they are and have them do things. That's literally all you need to do. To have it fit in with other PF gods, that's all you should do, as well.
In this particular case, that is the end goal of the campaign.
Graves has the troops subtype. Troops are swarms for Medium or Small creatures.
Thank you! And I think I read that all deities are considered outsiders for their general creature type, yes?
My group and I use the rules described here... Rules For Character Advancement for continuing past 20th level. We've been playing our current campaign for about 8 months and the players are moving along rather quickly. I hope to end the campaign when the players reach level 45. But I wanted to have the party actually confront the main antagonist at the end, which is the deity I was attempting to make.
I understand most people don't play past 20 because they dislike math, but just about every campaign we've played has gone past 20 at some point. A few even started after 20. However, we switched to Pathfinder about a year and a half ago, and I'm not familiar with how to make powerful creatures or deities in Pathfinder.
So... A CR 50 to me means a creature that a party of 4 level 50 characters would be a fair match for.
no a CR 50 should be a cake walk for 4 level 50 heroes. A fair figth for 4 level 45s
Giving advice about CR 50 encounters would need us to have a look at the PCs build at the level they will meet him. At so high levels the number of immunitet and stuff make a standart encounter impossible to make.I can see a CR 35 encounter like 4 great Cthulhu and one advanced great Cthulhu.
Nope PF dosent work up there:)