Minor god powers for demigods

[amperandris]

Demonspawns gain mutations from their demonic parent,demigods gain better stats.To make playing demigods more fun what if to lower their stats a bit but give them some random piety free minor god power as they mature,lets say at XL9,like minor destruction,heal other, grow toadstools.Who is your daddy ?

[duvessa]

The whole point of demigods is that they don't get god powers.

[amperandris]

I do understand and accept that but i still think that one random minor power will make playing demigods more diverse and fun.I do not think that is a game breaker.just small detail to make game more fun.And maybe to make parent god angry with his offspring and randomly sent wrath during all the game.

[bcadren]

Quick fix. Switch Demonspawn and Demigod's names...no other changes.

[ZipZipskins]

Hey yeah that makes total sense, except oh wait, it gives demigods god worship, so no it sure as fuck doesn't

[Airwolf]

God optional.

[bcadren]

No it makes sense. Demonspawn and Demigods switch names and no other changes.

Demonspawn aren't allowed to worship gods because of their demonic ancestry (all gods hate them, instead of being too uppity to choose a god like the current Demigod flavor); but their demonic ancestry gives them fantastic stats to help make up for it.

Demigods get fantastic god powers (like Robust and Hurl Hellfire) as they level; good gods reject them because they are opposed to god/human relations that created them.

[mattlistener]

I tried to play a Dg as part of my "Complete the Pantheon" quest and essentially died of boredom. Can we find a way to give them something??

[Shtopit]

One common answer to this problem is that being boring is demigods' shtick, because they are supposed to have no gods to differentiate them from each other, and no flashy mutations to differentiate them from other races. Even sustain abilities was taken away.

I don't play them, they are boring, in part because of how slow they gain skills and levels. Also, -2 spellcasting?

[luckless]

You know, all these threads could be put to rest if demigods were renamed and reflavored to something that didn't scream "this race should have supernatural powers."

[Airwolf]

Their stats are god-like, people!

[watertreatmentRL]

I think you're close to the right idea: Demigods and demonspawn should be mashed into a single species. At least then you have something significantly different from humans. If the whole point of demigods is no god powers, that point sucks.

[Shtopit]

You feel divine! is the new You feel monstrous!

[ThreeInvisibleDucks]

I think there's room in the game for a species with the godless gimmick. Although having high attributes that the player has lot of control over is powerful, it seems to be boring compared to the demonspawn mutation lottery.

So controlled power > mutation lottery when it comes to fun. Crawlers are gamblers.

[Shard1697]

I think you're close to the right idea: Demigods and demonspawn should be mashed into a single species. At least then you have something significantly different from humans. If the whole point of demigods is no god powers, that point sucks.

It doesn't suck, though. It's a cool restriction and it's cool that it is represented through something other than self-held honor rule gimmick runs.

Not every species needs to appeal to everybody. Demigods might not have the broad 'fun' appeal of demonspawn, but they are still a worthwhile species to have.

[Shtopit]

What if demigods were forced atheists, immune to smiting, covered by stasis, and able to wield triple swords with one hand?

[watertreatmentRL]

I think you're close to the right idea: Demigods and demonspawn should be mashed into a single species. At least then you have something significantly different from humans. If the whole point of demigods is no god powers, that point sucks.

It doesn't suck, though. It's a cool restriction and it's cool that it is represented through something other than self-held honor rule gimmick runs.

Not every species needs to appeal to everybody. Demigods might not have the broad 'fun' appeal of demonspawn, but they are still a worthwhile species to have.

Actually, it sucks.

[Sprucery]

Actually, it sucks.

It most definitely does not. And demigods are already very, very significantly different from humans.

There is no point in combining demigods and demonspawn, except that they both start with 'dem'.

[Majang]

Believe it or not, my first ever victory was with a Demigod FE. I don't think I played it ever again.

[mattlistener]

It's a cool restriction and it's cool that it is represented through something other than self-held honor rule gimmick runs.

This is an argument for a game-supported conduct system, something that the Nethack I once played did. I thought it was super-cool. You could realize halfway through a game that hey, I still have never done X (eg attacked an unaware enemy), maybe I can pull off the whole game preserving that conduct -- and if you did, the conduct system would naturally show it. Or you could ignore it and not know it's there.

Maybe for Demigods to remain as a race they should have something more interesting about them than "we don't have a conduct system so you have to play as this race for people to know at a glance that you played the whole game godless."

[Siegurt]

It's a cool restriction and it's cool that it is represented through something other than self-held honor rule gimmick runs.

This is an argument for a game-supported conduct system, something that the Nethack I once played did. I thought it was super-cool. You could realize halfway through a game that hey, I still have never done X (eg attacked an unaware enemy), maybe I can pull off the whole game preserving that conduct -- and if you did, the conduct system would naturally show it. Or you could ignore it and not know it's there.

Maybe for Demigods to remain as a race they should have something more interesting about them than "we don't have a conduct system so you have to play as this race for people to know at a glance that you played the whole game godless."

That would imply that they got *nothing* in exchange for their good slot.

That isn't true, they get better stats, more hp and mp.

It may be that this isn't sufficient, and maybe it isn't interesting, but it isn't the same as "just a human with an imposed conduct"

[mattlistener]

Maybe for Demigods to remain as a race they should have something more interesting about them than "we don't have a conduct system so you have to play as this race for people to know at a glance that you played the whole game godless."

That would imply that they got *nothing* in exchange for their good slot.

That isn't true, they get better stats, more hp and mp.

It may be that this isn't sufficient, and maybe it isn't interesting, but it isn't the same as "just a human with an imposed conduct"

I said "more interesting". I am aware they have better numbers.


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[tasonir]

You know, all these threads could be put to rest if demigods were renamed and reflavored to something that didn't scream "this race should have supernatural powers."

Hold on, hold on, I've got this. From now on all demigod threads will be REQUIRED to link pictures of kevin sorbo as hercules.



This, this is your demigod. They're strong, they have a lot of health, NO WEIRD MAGIC GOD POWERS.