Polytheist background

[rentonl]

How could you balance a background with the ability to worship 2 gods simultaneously?

[amaril]

It would have to be a species. But making this work in a moderately intuitive way would be about 1000x more difficult than it would be worth.

[VeryAngryFelid]

It should be a race, not a background. Backgrounds are just starting packages, nothing prevents your Berserker from using Fire Storm (except Trog wrath of course )

2 gods are not that powerful because of how piety works unless one of the gods does not have piety. Kiku + Gozag might be fun I guess, you ask for corpses and get gold instead

[Shtopit]

2 gods in 1 cup? The flavours tend to have mixed results.

I do have an idea. A race called "Magnets", because they attract the interest of one god. The god is chosen randomly at game start. At level 2, you discover which god is watching over you. From this point onwards, you start gaining piety with this god and to get abilities with it as if you were worshipping him. You cannot be abandoned, but you can suffer wrath. You can then normally convert to a god, at which point you have your patron god and your magnetized god, each of which gives you abilities; you have 2 piety metres, which increase at half of normal speed each.

By having your magnetized god revealed at level 2, you can choose a worshipped god which doesn't come at odds with him and avoid wrath. Or you can deliberately incur in wrath, if you feel like it.

It would be a bit like draconian and demonspawn, random abilities or stats.

BTW it's on the not to do list, but maybe there is a way to do double worship like double wield. In this case, you don't worship 2 gods, you worship 1 god and also have a god that has chosen you as a mean to his purpose.

[duvessa]

I'd balance it by changing it so that you can only worship 1 god at a time

[rentonl]

I'd balance it by changing it so that you can only worship 1 god at a time

very insightful...