>>7124722

>divine clothespegs

I'm sorry, what?

>>7124833

What else do you hold up divine Landry with?

This sounds pretty awesome to me, actually.

>divine clothespegs

>>7124846

Well, the Pope has to hang up his washing somehow..

has potential.

>>7124862
>>7124912

OP here. Thanks. What about it needs work, what needs removing?

I like the mish-mash of mythologies that is common in a lot of modern fantasy, so I wanted to do something that drew on that. The Deuspora, because they're going to be really multicultural, will definitely represent that in that you'll have two Sun gods sat next to each other and Thoth will be arguing with Hermes over who's turn it is to go out hunting for priests.

so do your PCs play demigods? cause that's pretty cool I suppose. In my old group, most games where we played demigods ended up as joke-around games.

>>7124722 Deuspora

I'm sorry, but I like this word too much to keep reading and be eventually disappointed.

>>7124997

totally agree. and perhaps OP should continue to elaborate on this campaign idea. then we can truly let you know what needs fleshing out, because at this point EVERYTHING needs fleshing out.

>>7125023

Yeah it's literally a pun that came to me twenty minutes while I was trying to sleep after reading about politics. ("Diaspora... DEUSpora! Gypsy gods!" was pretty much my thought process)

>>7124983

There are two potential ways I could do this, I suppose. One is make them player characters; they were gods, shit happened and now they're bascially high level PC's kicking around trying to live and maybe set up a new Jerusalem. The other is that the PC's are in the world who's divine politics just got interesting because the Deuspora just showed up and are making the local gods get pissy.

>>7125055 Gypsy gods!

I originally interpreted this as an exclamation of surprise.

>>7125073

It could be, actually. "By all the Wandering Gods" or something.

>>7125055

Id probably go with option two. playing demi gods just never ever leads to a serious campaign. unless you really stripped them of their powers... or maybe did something along the lines of nobilis? but without the faggy system.

How does this work in relation to a gods Portfolio?

Ie, are there 2 gods of murder at the same time?

>>7125055
I like the idea of playing as the Deuspora... though rather than trying to set up a new home, playing the whole wandering survivor part would be fun in and of itself.

>>7125179
Option 1 is go if most of the NPCs you interact with are also deities.

>>7124722

No-one knows exactly how many of the Deuspore there are, perhaps the exiles themselves. It is believed that there is one (two at the most) conglomeration of deities that travel, collecting numbers of gods from recently destroyed civilisations. The Deuspora usually settle in the ruins and remains of dead cultures, in order to pick up any lingering gods that may be lying around. Their ranks swell with each societal cataclysm and each falling empire. Theoretically, they could number in the millions.

As a result of their being made up of gods from across cultural and even planar and alignment boundaries, the Deuspora are a varied lot in terms of what they look like as well as what they do. A Deuspora may be good or evil - currently the leader is Neutral-aligned - and may seek out anything from a mere whispered prayer to a non-specific deity to a human sacrifice in their name.

The Deuspora show no signs of actually wanting to settle for a long time in any one particular plane or world; they seem quite content to travel and do so without any observable pattern or aim.

Gods do not always join the Deuspora on a permanent basis; some merely come and go, hopping on and off as desired. Some of them may simply wish to settle and live out the remainder of their life, whereas others may wish to fill in an empty niche in the local pantheon. In fact, there has been trouble in the past where the Deuspora that left had his eyes on a niche that was currently filled; the local Weather God wasn't nearly as warlike as his challenger and thus, despite technically being more powerful, was usurped from his position. This is a unique occurance, but has given most gods pause for thought when considering the migrant gods as mere pests.

>>7125185

Yes, that's half the fun. There can be a dozen Sun gods trying to either get along or assert dominance over each other.

Because the Deuspora can come from all sorts of different cultures, the associations of a particular portfolio could be radically different. One Sun god could be a golden warrior of fire and fury; another might be a bright and nurturing mother figure. A weather god might be a gentle nourisher of spring and summer, another might be a savage winter-bringer.

>>7125286
>>7125232
This would be fun as fuck for a social maneuvering game with minimal combat.

In nature, when two species niches' overlap perfectly, one of them invariably dies off

>>7125342

In nature, yes.

This is supernature.

>>7124722
This actually sounds really fucking cool.

Good work, anon.

>>7125340

Hmm. Not a bad suggestion. Turning up to a world, having to compete with the dozen other Sun gods you came with but also with the local Sun god, who's more powerful than the lot of you put together.

>>7125412
If there are a dozen sun gods, could there be a dozen suns?

Crops start to wilt due to all the heat and unceasing sunlight. Nighttime is a forgotten memory. The local moon/star gods get pissed.

>>7125473

Possible, I suppose, but I was going more for the idea that the sun god and the sun are seperate things. It's more that they're fighting over the right to represent the Sun.

That said, a Sun god would still be fucking bright etc.

A dozen Knowledge/Wisdom gods, on the other hand, would get shit done pretty fast. A bunch of Wisdom/Science Deuspora suddenly turning up might trigger a Renaissance.

>>7125473
More sun gods wouldn't mean more suns, just more gods fighting over worship in that domain.

>>7125492
>A dozen Knowledge/Wisdom gods, on the other hand, would get shit done pretty fast.
If they actually managed to work together, that is.

>>7124721
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>>7125511

I think the Wisdom gods are the ones more likely to espouse getting along. Of course that will vary from culture to culture, but by and large they're the ones I see as being most likely to get along well rather than butt heads.

>>7125473

I think a suprlus of gods in a certain area would have an impact on that local phenomenon, but not to the point of there being a dozen Suns. The Sun may be brighter and hotter than usual - days last longer, summers are hotter and longer etc - but there would still be just one Sun (assuming that world has just one Sun)

Somehow this makes me think of the gods in The Steel Remains.

The Deuspora live and travel in a mobile pocket dimension known as the Exilarchy. The Exilarchy is formed of the various Heavens, Hells, Underworlds and sundry other divine realms that belonged to the deities making up the Deuspora. As a result, it can be a very confusing place for those first coming to it. A valhallan feasting hall is just next door to a pagoda that was once used to house the souls of the damned. Golden fields suddenly becoming hellish canyons or roiling seas, without warning.

When the Deuspora land on a certain plane, parts of the Exilarchy manifest on the physical plane, usually in the form of buildings through which you enter the dimension itself. A sure sign that the Deuspora have settled are buildings that belong to no architectural style extant in this world, or that have not been extant for a long time.

Some of the Deuspora have been able to keep other paraphenalia of their godhood since their exile; these might be artifacts such as thunderbolts and aegises or entities such as dead souls, demonic guard dogs or many-legged steeds.

The current leader of the Deuspora is Harrumar, a True Neutral sky god who once was considered the most powerful of his pantheon. His world is gone, his followers killed by plague, leaving him no worshippers. His counsel has steered the Gods-In-Exile well these last few centuries, and have kept them from making too much trouble.

>>7125756

Is that a book? I've never heard of it.

>>7125819

I think the Deuspora should be a noocracy, ruled by the wise. After all, they're going to have a lot of these gods to draw on, so it makes sense that the Knowledge gods or the Wisdom gods be the ones that make the decisions.

It may be that there's a figurehead sky-father, but he'd certainly have a lot of advisors, many of whom may be sky-fathers themselves.

>>7125831
It's fairly new, and fairly bitchin. The similarity is the “gods are folks too” angle.

> “Demons? There's no fucking way they'll be—”
> “The next time you interrupt me, I'll sew your fucking lips up with grass. And don't think I won't.” The thing that claimed to be Takavach drew a deep breath.

>>7125904
I'm suddenly imagining this being done Animal Farm style, with each type of god relegated to their own class.

>>7126001

Cool, I'll look that up.

The Deuspora are less "gods are people too" so much as "what happened to the Roman gods when Rome fell? What happened to Marduk after Babylon? Where did they go?"

I like the idea, OP. Keep working on it.

>>7126046
Right, but I figure if you're playing gods or having much to do with them, they've got to be people too.

>>7126041

Possible, given that certain themes tend to repeat in mythologies, across gods.

It could be that gods of a certain kind keep to themselves. Alternatively, if multiple members of the same pantheon are present, they might form a clique.

I think given the gypsy analogy going on it wouldn't have a dedicated 'class' structure just yet, so much as a leader/elder figure, maybe a few advisors and then a very loose social structure. Things will be made more complicated by the mixed social ideas they're all bringing to the table, so things are likely to be stagnant as everyone's arguing what to do.

>>7126060

Oh, if that's what you meant..

I thought you meant in the sense of gods doing mundane things like getting groceries etc. But if you meant having a look at gods as personalities and societies, then yeah, this is "gods are people too"

>>7126094
Yeah. Like, in the excerpt there I particularly liked that even though he's a god, he's not too high and mighty to threaten to “sew your fucking lips shut with grass”. Implying that whatever it is he gets up to, he's got actual problems and personal investments in his situation, that he's in the habit of interacting with others (likely gods) on a personal level.

Pic related?