Dead Cruiser

Marvel: Judgment Day

Seems interesting. I'd like to see what other people are interested in playing, but I'm leaning toward an OC mutant probably.

War in Heaven: Conquest of Gods and Kings

@trenenp Yes, for certain.

War in Heaven: Conquest of Gods and Kings

@trenenp That's the simplest part of the equation; most if not all our characters should resemble demigods in power.

If your character is a literal demigod, the child of a god and a mortal, that would depend on where they come from and what "rules" the gods (lower case g) of their world function by.

In Magic the Gathering, there is a Greek-style god by the name of Kruphix (their fantasy Greece's equivalent to say Janus) that describes the gods of their world as "a localized phenomena" in the scope of the multiverse which is what distinguishes gods from Gods. The latter exist outside of their home universe, the former are features of said universe.

Does this make it any clearer/more helpful?

War in Heaven: Conquest of Gods and Kings

@Zyx I'm open to the idea of a small but consistent group, would probably be vastly easier for building and working around storylines.

I'd say I would like a minimum of three at least before I start, with the condition of a weekly schedule we intend to keep up if we're keeping it small.

War in Heaven: Conquest of Gods and Kings

@Zyx A fair cop, I think in previous instances I was getting too hung up on the fixtures of the setting, and lost interest as a result. We'll see about this one, I feel like player interest is going to be the main sticking point.

War in Heaven: Conquest of Gods and Kings

@Zyx Interesting, I think the idea will work.

@wikkit Well that is the rub... hard to say who all is still interested in this, the int check has been out for a few weeks.

War in Heaven: Conquest of Gods and Kings

@Zyx An intrigue story set in Heaven's mean streets is something I would support.

@wikkit I guess it would be up to you how pervasive these effects are, and what effect (if any) their luck manipulation would have on the divine. If it isn't enough to completely protect them, what makes up the difference?

War in Heaven: Conquest of Gods and Kings

@Zyx "Peacekeeping" in a very loose sense of the word is probably what most Gods that live in Heaven are engaged in day to day. They are a fractious, overwhelmingly martial, and often short-tempered bunch, and duels among lesser Gods are a common sight. Minor Law Gods, Gods of Justice, Peace, and similar titles arbitrate disputes, end disturbances, and hunt down rogue Gods.

However...

Their standards are are dependent on who/what they swear fealty to. Pantheons are alliances of gods, but function like competing gangs within the city/multiverse. Small pantheons are like street gangs. Larger ones function like the mafia. The biggest serve as the functional governments and organized religions in Heaven.

So it's fine to say "I'm the god of XYZ" but without support to back it up it's a quick way to becoming "god of being a dead asshole" while someone with connections loots your universe.

I hope I'm getting across what a ruthless place the center of the multiverse is. Literally everything is at stake.

With the seeing the future thing, there is no past or future in Heaven. Time describes a process that happens within universes, Heaven is explicitly outside of every universe. So she has a good motivation for leaving, but she would find her foresight useless within Heaven.

Seeing the future of the Multiverse requires perfect knowledge of everything that exists, as well as everything that does not exist. The last God that tried it had her eyes burn out of her skull.

War in Heaven: Conquest of Gods and Kings

@Zyx See above with mention to Gods. A description of what specifically your character does, and what they did to escape their world would be more relevant information.

Pretty much nobody cares what you get up to on your home World. If you start screwing people over in Heaven, then you tend to get your head cut off and universe annexed.

War in Heaven: Conquest of Gods and Kings

@wikkit I'll admit the first idea intrigues me, and would be an interesting piece in the overall puzzle. However, it isn't unheard of for freak accidents to thrust otherwise totally unprepared individuals into the role of being their world's New God. Often these people end up dead and more powerful Gods take over their territory.

The thing with being an actual, functional God (as the title is understood in Heaven) is that it basically means you have a job. There's a function you serve in Heaven's multiversal society, and what that function is typically describes what you are the "god" of. Many Law Gods, judges and other judicators, exist within Heaven. In fact there are multiple, competing "pantheons" which pay homage to different "supreme" deities.

@Zyx I'd pretty much handle it on a case by case basis. At the level our characters should generally be at, power is more of an abstraction.