Shaping the followers into the perfect expression of the deity on earth is the ideal goal of any god. Commandments start with simple rules such as: You must bathe every day, or each week you must dine with the whole village in a feast for my namesake. Limiting your tribal followers in everyday activities can lead to backlash.
Feel free to add several rules. Anything over ten would be considered cumbersome. Every god has symbols. Their followers wear these symbols to show their faith and place them on buildings to seek your blessing or avoid your wrath.
Most gods have several symbols. For example, a god often has a color that symbolizes him, which can be any color you wish. Other symbols include simple pictures or runes that your priests might wear as holy symbols, specific plants or animals, or particular motions and gestures—cats, mistletoe, or a placing of the hand over the heart, for example. Decide on a few symbols and write them on your character sheet. Your concept should give you some good ideas.
After every detail is filled in players should start off working with their gamemaster to create at least two miracles to use during game session. The wonderful thing about this game system is it allows for players to create miracles on the fly. This is a free form miracle casting system and something that should be practiced. In Chapter 4 you will find three examples of miracles for the domains of Fire, Ice, and Storms.
Full characters and additional miracles will be provided in Chapter 5 of this book. You can create your own miracles using the rules in Chapter 2 of this book The Art of Miracle Casting.
The GM can increase this number if he wants to run a game with more powerful gods. These followers live somewhere in the Known World.
The GM probably has an idea of where he wants your followers to begin. The average tribesman has the following stats of die 6 for Body, Mind, and Spirit. Their skill set is the four primary skills listed for each tribe below. Your tribe may be turned into an army with training. This will take one season of work. Every man, woman, and child, including the elders, will be ready for battle and gain the skill Melee. This effect lasts for one season. Afterwards the tribe must hunt, plant, and gather for two additional seasons.
This forms your core army, and if you go to battle it will be your elites who will fight. Elites have a d8 in one of the three main stats of Body, Mind, or Spirit with a d6 in the other two stats. This elite set includes Melee, Ranged, Lore, or other skills along with swords, armor, writing utensils, and other items only an elite would carry. It is up to you and the story you are telling.
Feel free to mix your elite forces into any form you wish. For a tribe of a people you could create an army of warriors, 20 engineers and 30 priests for a total of 30 percent elites. For every followers start off with 50 belief for your god. For each ten followers the deity gains two belief per year at your seasonal festival. During conflict the tribal god may gain or lose belief after a conflict.
This includes battles of wills or any type of conflict, from armies to insults. Is it a tribe of nomadic sheep-herders who fight off wolves with their bare hands? A tribe of scholars who live in the walled gardens in a great city? A tribe of woodland warriors who neither hunt nor sow, but prey on the farmers and travelers who encroach on their territory? A tribe of farmers, for example, has an agricultural background with knowledge of crops and animals, while a tribe of warriors would be useless with a cow but deadly with a sword.
Each background provides three skills for an anointed hero. The heroes must each choose one, which they get at a rank of d8. Tribes with a background in farming have a mastery of agriculture. They support themselves, and may even have enough surplus resources to trade with other tribes for additional food and supplies. Heroes from these tribes start with one of the following skills at d Craft Fabrics : The people of the farmlands know how to spin, weave, and knit their crops into textiles for clothing, tents, blankets, and other items.
Herbalism: Farmers know crops from weeds, and one crop from another, even from the earliest sprouts. Animal Handling: While some tribes may prepare their fields by hand, those with the farming background use oxen, horses, or other animals to pull their plows and help in the fields. Driving: Hauling crops and supplies requires a good wagon and a firm hand to steer it. Tribes with a background in herding live and die by the sheep, cattle, goats, and other livestock that provide them with all they need for life.
Some herding tribes are nomadic, driving their flocks from one region to another lest the animals graze it barren. Others are established, surrounded by lush fields to support their herds. Heroes from a herding tribe start with one of the following skills at d Animal Handling: Masters of livestock know how to understand an animal and get its trust, respect, and obedience.
Craft Leatherwork : when the herd animals are slaughtered, the tribe that depends on them can turn their hides into leather for clothing, tools, and other necessities. Tracking: Experienced herders track stray livestock, predators who threaten the herd, and even rustlers and poachers looking to steal a free meal.
Hunting tribes support themselves by bringing down wild game. Nomadic hunters follow migratory herds from one feeding ground to the next, while rural and urban hunters seek prey that live in the fields and forests nearby. Heroes from a hunting tribe start with one of the following skills at d Craft Leatherwork : Wild game provides more than just meat.
Their hides can be used to make clothing, tents, and tools. Tracking: Hunters need to track their prey, and follow competing predators who might be after the same herd. Stealth: Sometimes, hunting means staying very still for a long time, waiting for game to come along. Other times, it means sneaking up on the game to take it unawares.
Lore Animals : Hunters need to know which animals are good eating, which are too dangerous to approach, and the best times and places to find both. Each god starts off with a hexagon shaped territory approximately ten miles by ten miles in diameter. Each territory is categorized in one of the following three ways. The land is rich and fertile, with open plains on which to build and farm, rivers to irrigate and cool, and forests providing lumber and game. In these environs a tribe can truly flourish, though it should always beware those who might try to take this idyllic land.
A lush territory can support up to people without overcrowding. Most mortals inhabit ample territories. These are lands largely suited to their needs—with work, the land provides all they need to survive and flourish. The territory may not be the legendary fields of plenty their priests promise, but with effort a community can provide for itself with some room to spare. An ample territory can support up to people without overcrowding. Perhaps these barrens are filled with rocks and mountains, or are arid plains where rain falls but a few days in a year, or are simply so overworked that the thin soil must struggle to push up even its feeble harvest.
For whatever reason, mortals living here face a constant struggle against the elements. A harsh territory can support people without overcrowding. Whether due to physiological factors such as humans trying to survive in the blistering desert , or because the land has been shattered and blasted by some terrible cataclysm, mortals are unable to scratch out even the barest living here without constant supernatural assistance.
Hardy members of the race might trek across these regions if they have good reason, but the supplies they carry limit their stay. Note that the Elder races Salamanders and Undines and such are suited to different environments than humans. Thus, what an Undine finds lush might be harsh or uninhabitable for a human.
Gods may acquire additional territories by sending at least ten followers into a new territory and settling the area for at least 1 season. Your tribe starts off with 1 Village and 1 Temple. Gamemasters may assign additional shrines or allow for towns. Additionally the gods might be a part of a city pantheon. Allow a second of the city to be claimed by your god and then take additional territory outside of the city in the countryside next to the city.
Specific buildings are another way to gain such as temples and shrines. For each followers, a god may build one temple in any given area where people may gather. For every 50 followers, a god may build a shrine. A god may only have one temple or two shrines for every followers. Each temple gives 2 points of Belief, and each shrine 1 point of Belief, each year during the festival season of the god. Large temples, which generate 5 points of Belief, may only be built for followers. If a large temple is built, there can be no shrines or temples until the god gains an additional followers.
See Chapter 3 Rules for Armies and Conflicts for more information on how to lead your people to battle. Miracles are the heart and soul of this game. They are the driving force behind it and the primary way gods affect the world.
The creation, description, and effects of Miracles make up a great deal of the game. Miracles are the medium by which gods interact with the mortal world, unleashing the power gifted to them by the prayers of thousands in a single transcendent moment.
How they use this incomparable power is most often the defining feature of the god—some prefer to work with such subtlety and grace than no mortal can detect their interference, while others strive to instill the maximum awe and respect in the witnesses when they unleash their Miracles.
A Miracle can blast a mountain to fragments, or gentle a single deer—the temperament of the god and the belief of their followers are the only limiting factors. This step should be obvious, but in some cases it might not be. Who is the Word? Who is a Female? Who is the Antichrist? What is Revelation? What is Creation?
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