Deities and Death

Gil-Este · Post by **Gil-Este** » Fri Apr 16, 2004 11:53 am

Just been reading my PnP Deities and Demigods book, and I was wondering if the DM controlled deities are DM characters or are creatures the DMs possess (and therefore killable). It would be pretty cool for a party of epic level characters to hunt down a god. You know, titanic battle devastating the countryside for miles, a celestial chorus in the background lamenting the downfall of the god (or praising the mighty heroes who dare challenge the might of the evil gods)

Billiard · Post by **Billiard** » Fri Apr 16, 2004 1:54 pm

Hmm, could you team with a god from your faction and then track down a god from another faction? There is a lot of trash talking going on now, including being done by DMs. It would been neat if each god actually had a playable character, rather than being an all powerful DM-type.

Mz_Shadow · Post by **Mz_Shadow** » Fri Apr 16, 2004 3:14 pm

I guess you will all have to wait and see.

Billiard · Post by **Billiard** » Fri Apr 16, 2004 3:19 pm

Ah - I look forward to epic levels even more now! Rather than just one big ugly dragon to beat on we'll have DMs to scheme about!

Throst54 · Post by **Throst54** » Fri Apr 16, 2004 3:26 pm

Mz is gonna get squished!

Billiard · Post by **Billiard** » Fri Apr 16, 2004 3:55 pm

Eh, opposing gods are gonna band together? Not fair!

Terminal Insanity · Post by **Terminal Insanity** » Fri Apr 16, 2004 5:01 pm

I vote for killable DMs

Now where is Nala

lord_modred · Post by **lord_modred** » Fri Apr 16, 2004 5:15 pm

hmmm.... the only time that the gods could be killed was during the time of troubles... hey, mabey there will be an Aetheria equivalent of the time of trouble's.... vecna shall slay the lesser gods! he will consume their power and with each death he will grow stronger!

Terminal Insanity · Post by **Terminal Insanity** » Fri Apr 16, 2004 5:26 pm

yeh or my 98ac sorc could cast a bunch of timestops and igms and get it over with ^_^

Post by **DeputyDog** » Fri Apr 16, 2004 6:24 pm

The "God" will be the ones to arrange big faction vs faction battles.
So they will not fight them selves, but they may have a hoard of npcs from their faction invade or send their pc worshipers against another faction.

DrakhanValane · Post by **DrakhanValane** » Fri Apr 16, 2004 9:53 pm

Terminal Insanity wrote:yeh or my 98ac sorc could cast a bunch of timestops and igms and get it over with ^_^

DMs are immune to Time Stop. :)

Post by **TGPO** » Sat Apr 17, 2004 1:41 am

Tiamat "Die puny mortal"
Player "Hah, I'll beat anything you can throw at me you over grown bat"
Tiamat *toggles kill switch*

Player does best imitation of an ant under a bootheel.

oh and just to make things more interesting two commandlines that are going to be alot of fun in NS4.

dm_adjustfactionreputation
dm_setfaction

Its how you discover that there is a secret sect of dragon worshipers in your town when 6 or 7 town guards suddenly turn hostile to only one player in the whole town after an off color comment about dragons

Post by **Lokey** » Sat Apr 17, 2004 2:44 am

The funny thing is the dm kill switch does exactly what the slay mortal ability does, lol. And the only way to beat it is help from another deity

Billiard · Post by **Billiard** » Sat Apr 17, 2004 11:51 am

A DM Kill switch sure doesn't sound like it would be good RP from a god . . .

Seriously though, if a DMs are RPing gods, and we have epic characters that supposedly can challenge said gods, then merely offing the character with a command line would be way OOC and really kind of defeat a potentially fun aspect of the whole diety thing. Think about it: Some god is running amok so a band of epic warriors go to put a stop to it because the other gods don't want to mess with their own. That would be a cool event!