rename/reflavor demigods to something awesomer
Posted: Tuesday, 4th July 2017, 20:30Demigods have a legitimate gameplay niche, but obviously their lack of special powers is so confusing and/or annoying to people that threads requesting that special powers be added to them keep cropping up. In my view, this is evidence of a misalignment between flavor and mechanics; if demigods can be reflavored to something at least as cool but less jarring, they should. Here are two possibilities; I think either would be a big improvement.
- Demigods are golems, beings created by magical rituals for specific tasks. As such, they are identical to humans in all but two respects: they are capable of extraordinary physical or mental ability, depending on the purpose to which they are set, and they lack souls.
- Demigods are humans from the future (or another dimension), in which technology is indistinguishable from magic. While the circumstances by which these future-humans were brought to the dungeon prevented them from bringing any equipment, they at least retain the advantages of millennia of genetic engineering. However, the concept of faith is utterly foreign to them.