Chosen of the Gods?
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Chosen of the Gods?
Just curious, but has anyone wrote up templates like the Chosen from D&D? I want to do more with the Gods from PF but I doubt anyone in the group will want to play a priest. Looking through the books, it seems like the Gods only get interested if there is a priest of said God in the party.
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Re: Chosen of the Gods?
They can basically look out any of their followers eyes, so you don't have to be a priest, just a follower.
Even if they don't want to be a follower give em a holy item (they don't have to know its holy) that is handy, like a stick that can heal 3 times a day or something like that and the god can intervene through that.
Or have one of the characters have a birth mark that's a holy symbol of one of the gods and let him discover it for himself.
Have one of the characters be the child of a god, and his powers have been locked away by his parents until he is deemed worthy
and having non believers in the party is fine too, converting them is fun. Have an npc priest follow the party around who won't heal anyone who doesn't convert to his faith. (or charges 1000gp per healing touch to non believers and 5 gold to followers)
Even if they don't want to be a follower give em a holy item (they don't have to know its holy) that is handy, like a stick that can heal 3 times a day or something like that and the god can intervene through that.
Or have one of the characters have a birth mark that's a holy symbol of one of the gods and let him discover it for himself.
Have one of the characters be the child of a god, and his powers have been locked away by his parents until he is deemed worthy
and having non believers in the party is fine too, converting them is fun. Have an npc priest follow the party around who won't heal anyone who doesn't convert to his faith. (or charges 1000gp per healing touch to non believers and 5 gold to followers)
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Re: Chosen of the Gods?
Years ago, I made a PC that was, on paper, an Elven Priest of Light. Talking with the GM, though, we decided she was not actually a priest but, rather, a literal Child of Od by a human (thinking back, Dogma had come out recently). So, while she used the priest OCC, and elven stats, she thought of herself as a Human Mercenary Fighter, and simply exhibited some supernatural abilities, that happened to coincide with the abilities of a priest. I don't think we ever clearly decided if this was Od showing favor to his child, or if she was manifesting her own divinity, but it was a fun character. Her and the Kobold Diabolist that followed were part of what inspired Mysteries of Magic, in fact.
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Re: Chosen of the Gods?
In my Gods the regularly choose champion mortals to carry out their wants and
needs, even if that person is not a priest, but a worshipper or someone they just pick
at random, just like they do in the classic Greek and Roman myths.
needs, even if that person is not a priest, but a worshipper or someone they just pick
at random, just like they do in the classic Greek and Roman myths.
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Re: Chosen of the Gods?
kiralon wrote:They can basically look out any of their followers eyes, so you don't have to be a priest, just a follower.
Even if they don't want to be a follower give em a holy item (they don't have to know its holy) that is handy, like a stick that can heal 3 times a day or something like that and the god can intervene through that.
Or have one of the characters have a birth mark that's a holy symbol of one of the gods and let him discover it for himself.
Have one of the characters be the child of a god, and his powers have been locked away by his parents until he is deemed worthy
and having non believers in the party is fine too, converting them is fun. Have an npc priest follow the party around who won't heal anyone who doesn't convert to his faith. (or charges 1000gp per healing touch to non believers and 5 gold to followers)
I ran a group that went through a number of players in its almost 7 years, and only 2 were priests. The rest were "chosen", typically with a god visit or vision.
