Divine Portfolios

Creatures with Divine Ranks will eventually begin to gather portfolios for which they wield some power and must be accountable for. Every god will develup their own portfolio but will also take on the portfolio of fallen gods. Slaying a god will put the care of its portfolio on the assassin who may then hand those portfolios off to another willing god.

Gods will create their own portfolios based on their worshippers and actions. A god's strength is also based on his worshippers, how many of them there are and how strong their faith is. This may have many effects.

Metagame note: The develupment of portfolios and the actual benefits to the amount of worshippers and temples/wealth of temple and faith of worshippers are not discribed in the offical 3.5 rulebooks. I suggest we create those rules here. MikeD. 21:55, June 11, 2010 (UTC)

Portfolio descriptions
Amphibians

Bigotry

Self-Deception

Worshippers
The gods need the people who worship them. This worship is the very life-blood of the divine. Gods are worshipped in different ways which are develuped by the god and his early worshippers together and usually involve his portfolio in some way.

Worshippers provide power, the total number of worshippers and the zeal of each worshipper are vital to the deities.

Power flowing from worshippers to the gods does not mandate the gods love or even like, their worshippers. It means that if worshippers die or lose interest, the gods become weaker and may eventually die. Rival deities insite wars and complicated plans just to wipe out or convert worshippers of another deity. Cleric actively try to recruit new worshippers, competing for the limited supply of souls and the potential of actions taken by new worshippers.

Ancestor worship can create weak deities or at least keep ancestors alive in the form of spirits. Some deities lose power as their worshippers dwindle and eventually become no more then household deities with no control over their own portfolios.

Deities must gain worshippers and stay within a certain range or their DR will begin to decrease. They may gain a higher divine rank but must then gather the worshippers to keep that rank. Gathering enough worship (total worshippers and actions of worshippers) to go to the next level of divinity will slowly raise a god's DR to the maximum for his current status but will not boost him into the next phase of godhood.

Hero: DR 0 - May start to gain worshippers.

Demi-god: DR 1-5 - 300 to 3000 worship

Lesser Deity: DR 6-10 - 4000 to 50,000 worship

Intermediate Deity: DR 11-15 - 100,000 to 900,000 worship

Greater Deity: DR 16-20 - 1,000,000+ worship

Overdeities: DR 21+ - other deity worship

Temples
Temples are directly related to the power of a divine creature. Everything given to the temple belongs to the god and depending on the gods' individual power it may have powers over the happenings in its' temples.