Da New Rulez! General RulesEveryone begins play with ten motes as an Overgod.
Every day, at noon your time, you gain one additional mote. You may also gain motes from the worship of your followers, though the maximum you may gain is three motes per day.
Any action that references the local area means anything within three hundred miles, though you may choose to affect a smaller area.
You have a physical body, unless you choose otherwise.
The instantaneous travel may not move you more than one hundred miles per use.
Anyone who doesn't read all of these rules will be fed to the space shark.
Domain RulesA god that acts to further or protect their domain receives a one mote. They may not gain more than two motes per day through this method.
A domain is an aspect of reality over which a god holds power. This may be anything from the concrete (Earth, Trees) to the abstract (Love, Knowledge). Domains may be anything that is not judged to be to broad (Such as Everything or World).
Divine ActionsDivine Actions can be used by gods through the expenditure of motes of energy. Actions are organized into Tiers. The higher the Tier, the more powerful the action, and the greater the cost. There are also Tier Zero, or Free actions that require so little power that they can be used for free.
Overgods have access to all actions, but the lower ranking gods are restricted.
Divine Servitors may only use free divine actions.
Demi-Gods may use free divine actions, and a single tier one action, chosen during their creation.
Minor Gods may use free divine actions, tier one actions, and a single tier two action.
Major Gods may use free divine actions, tier one actions, tier two actions, and a single tier four action.
Free Divine ActionsShapeshifting: Changing form is a free action. Most gods prefer to transform into races, mythical beings and animals they have created.
Flying: A god may fly with great speed. A flying god can go from one end of the world to the other over the course of a week. Wings are optional, but stylish.
Matter Creation: A god may make any non-magical, non-living item or material as a free action.
Inherit Powers: Some god may select certain higher tier actions to use as free actions, according to their divine rank. Overgods may select three tier one actions and a two tier two action. Major gods may select two tier one actions and a single tier one action. Minor gods may select two tier one actions. Demi-Gods may select a single tier one action.
These selected powers become inherit parts of the divinity, and they may use them without any cost.
Tier One ActionsAll Tier one actions cost one mote.
Alter Weather: A god may alter the weather across a wide area. Such changes can be anything from breezes to hurricanes, from rain showers to hail storms. For the most part, these changes last for as long as the god wills them to. A change can be made permanent with a blessing or curse.
Create Life: From elephants to mice, or oaks trees to daisies, this can create any non-magical animal or plant. This can create a single animal/plant , several of one kind of animal/plant, or tons of different kinds of animals/plants.
Bless: Bestow a subtle, positive effect on something. A good rule of thumb is that a blessing isn't obviously divine. It can be something that people can put off as a coincidence or sheer luck. They dispel, and are dispelled by, Curses.
Curse: The inverse of Bless. Make something subtle and horrible happen to something. Like Blessings, Curses are usually thought of as just bad luck. They dispel, and are dispelled by, Blessings.
Possess Avatar: A god may declare a mortal to be their avatar. Avatars serve as the eyes, ears and mouth of a god. Most avatars retain their old personalities, with a few influences from the god. A god can use divine actions through an Avatar as if they were a god two ranks lower than normal.
Raise Hero: You may choose a mortal to be your herald. A hero may not the subject of Curses or Blessings from other gods, nor may they be removed from play by anyone other than you.
Create/Alter Terrain: You may change the local area to any land type your desire (Plains, desert, hills mountains). You may choose to mix various terrains (Such as making a mountain, then surrounding it with a desert.). Such changes are permanent, unless changed by another god.
Tier Two ActionsTier Two Actions cost four motes.
Create Mythical Being: You may make one or multiple creatures with supernatural powers. Such creatures may be intelligent, but may not function as your chosen race. Examples of this are: Unicorns, Genies, Dragons.
Make Servitors: You may make minions to serve you. These Servitors appear as you desire. They fall under your complete control. Servitors will generally do nothing if not given some kind of order and are rather useless when unsupervised. They are immortal with respect to aging and normal injury, but most gods would find them easy to destroy. Assuming you have a personal plane, they inhabit that. Servitors generally assist their masters in minor ways, such as: Wandering around healing people, helping them create artifacts, entertaining them, furthering their goals.
Smite: You may inflict a severe punishment to any chosen group, area or person. Unlike Curses, Smitings had an obvious divine source. Examples of this are: Making fire rain from the sky, sending a horde of dragons to destroy a town, killing entire cities instantly, etc..
Miracle: You bless a group, area of person with an obviously divine gift. Examples of this are: Causing large numbers of resurrections, sending a group of mythical creatures to save a town, making a healing lake in the area, giving your chosen race some ability or attribute, etc..
Raise Demi-God: You may make a chosen mortal a Demi-God. Demi-Gods are immortal as far as aging goes. They are usually loyal to you. They draw from the same mote pool as you do. Demi-Gods have an aspect one of your domains, or may be aligned with a certain location. Such as a Demi-God of a certain city.
Found Religious Order: You may set up a system of formalized worship for yourself. This requires you to have a race. A Religious Order increases your maximum mote capacity by two, and you may contact any high-ranking member of your order from any distance for free.
Tier Three ActionsCosts eight Motes.
Create Artifact: An artifact is an mortal item of great power. It may have any ability within reason, such as: Allowing one to effortlessly kill dragons, create food for large number of people, create powerful magical effects like fireballs and forcewalls.. Artifacts may not harm normal gods or minor gods. They may injure Demi-Gods or Avatars.
Raise Minor God: You may create a minor deity. Minor gods are nearly immortal, though other minor gods and normal gods may harm them. You choose one domain related to your own for them to have upon creating them. They are always loyal to you. Minor gods share your mote pool.
Gain Domain: You may gain an additional domain by using this power after spending five motes on actions related to that domain, such as gaining the Forest domain after spending points creating a forest(1), filling it with animals(1), blessing it(1) and creating a demi-god to defend it(2). Gain domain never counts for the purpose of expending points to gain domains.
Create Race: You may make a race of sapient beings, with power level in line with normal humans. They usually worship you, which gives you an additional mote per day. You may add special qualities or abilities to a race using Miracle.
Tier Four ActionsCost twelve motes.
Create Plane: You create a plane of existence, separate from the normal world. It is a 300 mile circle in diameter by default, though you may expend extra points to make more space at one mote per 100 miles. You may dictate the general appearance, climate, terrain, wildlife and any architecture as you desire, and this may be changed later as a free action.
You may shift to and from your plane at anytime as a free action, and may expend one mote to use it to open a portal to another part of the normal world. Your plane may store up to ten motes of divine power for your later use. Motes stored in such a manner do not count against your maximum mote total.
Make Divine Artifact: An item of near limitless power. It may duplicate any free, one, or two mote action (Except those that raise gods and heroes) for no cost, twice per day. This item may also be imbued with any power near the power of a one or two mote action.
Raise Major God: You may create a Major God. Major gods are all but immortal. They gain two domains of your choosing, and are usually loyal to you. They share your mote pool, and add four to the maximum mote total.
Combat RulesAdd together the modifiers as follows:
According to Divine Rank: +1 for Demi-Gods, +5 for Minor Gods, +16 for Major gods, and +41 for Overgods.
According to location: +1 If within a hundred miles of a location the God is venerated in or that they control, +2 if they are within a mile of said location, and +3 if they are within it.
According to Divine Artifacts: +3 for an Offensive Divine Artifact, -3 to the apposing god for a Defensive Divine Artifact.
According to the assistance of Others: +1 for Demi-Gods, +2 for Minor Gods, +4 for Major Gods, +8 for Overgods.
You may only wield a single Divine Artifact for each Divine Rank, Plus one. (2 For Demi-Gods, 3 for Minor Gods, etc..). Heroes may wield a single Divine Artifact.
No god may use mote-expending abilities except for the following: Bless, Curse, Smite, Miracle.
Compare your modifier with your opponents.
If you're within 1-4~ points of power, you are a fairly even match for your opponent.
If it's 5-9 above you, then it's a challenge to fight.
If it's 10-15 above you, then it's a really difficult fight for you.
If it's +20, then you are screwed.
If it's 5-9 below you, then it's a fairly easy fight.
If it's 10-15 below you, it's barely an effort.
If it's -20, then it's scarcely even worth your notice.
“She'd become a governess. It was one of the few jobs a known lady could do. And she'd taken to it well. She'd sworn that if she did indeed ever find herself dancing on rooftops with chimney sweeps she'd beat herself to death with her own umbrella.”
― Hogfather
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