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I am torn on my opinion over the initial "world building" scene happening or not, they are always so confusing and full of things and likely somehow both stale up and go out of control at the same time, its a pattern with all three Divinus. Wonder how that would go with free, but I would advise for a strong hand of Mater, if we are allowing gods to create the world, one wish and you are out of the room or something like that.


My main inspiration for the Vault is to give gods the opportunity to add things to the universe a la the Codex / womb of the world scene in this game, but in a more structured way that can be discussed with the players out of character, and can apply to characters that join late. That way extradimensional stuff like the Mechanism of Change, the Gap, the Hells of Time, and the Godkiller are hopefully a little more democratic. So while Lei might get pretty busy in the first turn or two, there won't be much of a Shattering Disunity scene...

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yes there will

Here's the prose intro for Divinus Lite.

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We could always excuse the extraordinary power used by Level 1 lite-gods at the start by saying that much of it had to do with Fate and Mater lending them the power necessary to create an entire universe to their liking. So the basic laws etc. of the universe will be created by the gods as with Mk.II

Unless Mater creates a basic intelligent species with which the newborn gods can go about playing and developing into different species.


I'm... Pretty strongly inclined not to do either of these. The former sounds vague and inflexible, and I'm generally opposed to any kind of 'baseline' fauna. *

I think it could work if the world initiated as a cold desert or just water or seas of sand, the cool gods congregate in one area, create a small oasis of life, each one flexing their divine muscle, and then from there, life spreads to the rest of the planet. The outcasts, shy, and edgy, could go and make their own areas with pool tables and punk music, send just an ambassador, or act in the shadows.

Such area would work in a similar way to the initial "nothingness" of the previous divinus MKs, except once it is done and the world has life, this original land could become a permanent "godly land", legendary to mortals, coveted by many gods, so on. (though it would take some turns, or for example, if there is no god of seas, it could stay permanently as a land where sand separates continents instead of water, so on)


This is pretty much what I was thinking, yes!

*ed: Microbial baseline flora is good though, let's have some oxygen and stromatolites and methanogens and volcanic extremophiles and GOD I LOVE PROKARYOTES
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Also, tell me when you guys need a freevinus map.
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The former sounds vague and inflexible


It's pretty, much what happened in this RP Gods did their whole making the Codex and laws and whatnot, but it was really Fate and Amul who did the creating itself.

But yeah, maybe that way of doing things is a bit vague and inflexible ^^' long-winded and confusing as well, as Capy pointed out
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@Antarctic Termite that's ugly you're ugly

pretty maps matter
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@WrongEndoftheRainbow You can make as many pretty maps as you want once the RNG Fate does its job.
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Just curious. Is this Divinus lite still launching in the Free section? I don't mean to judge, but all of your characters, not to mention the depth of the rules, really speak more to me of the Casual section than the Free section.

'Course, we're only running in the casual section here because this RP only semi-intentionally blew out into Advanced section levels of writing, but whatever.
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@Muttonhawk yeah I'd like it to go in Casual too, personally.

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While I know the rules are complex and our Character Sheets are rather big, I vote to keep it to the FREE SECTION.

I can see that the free section has posts that are three paragraphs, sometimes slightly longer, so it allows for some detail for those of us who are verbose bastards. Cough.
I don't want Divinus Lite to end up taking up our efforts & attention and effectively supplanting Mk.II. If we wanna write big stuff, Mk.II is here. If we want to write something short'n'quick, Lite is for that.

Kho votes keep it FREE. And so should you. Vote Free today.
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'Course, we're only running in the casual section here because this RP only semi-intentionally blew out into Advanced section levels of writing, but whatever.


Mk.II isn't an advanced section RP :C it's casual. Casual.



It's casual. We're casual. Call it casual. We're casual rpers. We're not like 'em stuck up folk in their high advanced towers. We're fun. Casual. Casual.
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Oh booy. I'm all for putting it in Free, but I'm not sure if I can force myself to post one-liners or even three-paragraphers!
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@Kho Trust me, I don't want to write longposts either, and I will do my damnedest to enforce lighthearted posting if need be, but I don't feel like dealing with ultra-shortposts either and we do want to get players.

It should be okay if we drop it in Free and advertise both there and elsewhere.

'Course, we're only running in the casual section here because this RP only semi-intentionally blew out into Advanced section levels of writing, but whatever.


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It's casual. We're casual. Call it casual. We're casual rpers. We're not like 'em stuck up folk in their high advanced towers. We're fun. Casual. Casual.


SORRY! YOU ARE VERY HARD TO HEAR FROM ALL THE WAY UP THERE ON THAT PILE OF SEVERAL MILLION WORDS THAT WAS YOUR LAST FEW POSTS! WHAT WAS THAT!? TOWERS!?! I WOULD DARE TO DESCRIBE SUCH A PILE OF WORDS YOU SPEAK FROM AS TOWER-LIKE, HENCE WHY YOU NEED TO SPEAK UP, LAD! MAKE YOURSELF CLEARER!!
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Kho votes keep it FREE. And so should you. Vote Free today.


Oh booy. I'm all for putting it in Free, but I'm not sure if I can force myself to post one-liners or even three-paragraphers!


@Kho Trust me, I don't want to write longposts either, and I will do my damnedest to enforce lighthearted posting if need be, but I don't feel like dealing with ultra-shortposts either and we do want to get players.

It should be okay if we drop it in Free and advertise both there and elsewhere.


Hmm.

We have Mid/High Casual here.

I honestly can't say this with a straight face, but...

Perhaps you guys are advocating for something...Mid/High Free?
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ANYWAY GUYS

If you're wondering why I'm so insistent on using random terrain for the empty planet (and if you didn't know that I am, well, I am), here's why. Forgive the equirectangular projection.



In my opinion, the only distinctive geographical features that developed on the blank Mk. II Galbar map were the Shalanoir region, the upper curve of the Ironhearts surrounding the Mahd basin (Venomweald/Firewind/Mangrove), and the updated Mesathalassa and upper Metatic. Everything else was just massive blobs.

Meanwhile, look at this thing! It has straits, isthmuses, islands, plateaus, inland seas large and small, more than enough ocean to navigate and land to explore. It even has one of those mythical ring-shaped mountain ranges everyone loves so much!

Given the extent to which gods can changed landmasses even with the nerfs I'm working into the OP, there's still plenty of room to make everything you want, but even the spaces you don't hand-craft still have shape and character. And we can settle on a scale for the planet, to boot, so people can actually get a vague idea of how large all these things are.

So yeah. Randomly generated land-and-water maps for me please.

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Mid/High Free


>inb4 one-million-character posts
'This is a HIGH free RP. HIGH free.'
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SORRY! YOU ARE VERY HARD TO HEAR FROM ALL THE WAY UP THERE ON THAT PILE OF SEVERAL MILLION WORDS THAT WAS YOUR LAST FEW POSTS! WHAT WAS THAT!? TOWERS!?! I WOULD DARE TO DESCRIBE SUCH A PILE OF WORDS YOU SPEAK FROM AS TOWER-LIKE, HENCE WHY YOU NEED TO SPEAK UP, LAD! MAKE YOURSELF CLEARER!!



See, what we must understand is that casual is an attitude, not a number of words. It is a whole worldview, entire, complete, self-contained, free-standing, self-sufficient.
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@Antarctic Termite Arcon used a random generator too. Whenever new planets come into play in this iteration, I intend to follow Dawn's precedent. I have a hider full o' randomly generated maps in my secret PM >.>
So I support randomly generated maps from the off for Lite.
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