Rule Suggestion: Divine Intervention

[Puckohue]

Please have a look at this rule suggestion for divine intervention: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1TpA ... sp=sharing

[Erik]

Looks fun. It will add colour to the game, and more incentive to rise up the cult ranks. Perhaps there could be a mechanism for 2 or more players asking the god for the same thing.

[Erinestra]

Please have a look at this rule suggestion for divine intervention: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1TpA ... sp=sharing

Looks good. I wonder if there should be a generic "anything within your god's sphere of influence" but that may be too broad.

[Puckohue]

Perhaps there could be a mechanism for 2 or more players asking the god for the same thing.

I don't think so, based on the inspiration (RQ). But there will be such mechanisms in the upcoming heroquesting rules.

[Puckohue]

...a generic "anything within your god's sphere of influence" but that may be too broad.

Yes, we need to make it as "mechanical" as possible, otherwise I will have to make subjective judgement calls, and I hate making those.

I've tried to make the cult specific use cases reflect the deities' spheres of influence, and I'm open for suggestions for more specific uses.

As a general rule, the effects should inspire character interaction rather than limit it.

[Quatlu]

Looks interesting and would be a useful addition to the game. In order to encourage temple worship, perhaps the results of achieving divine intervention might be boosted on an incremental basis for attendance at temple ceremonies.

[Ivarenna]

Looks good to me!

[Fionn]

A very neat addition, filling a gap for high-POW characters. I wonder, though, about the details of "avoid death at the front". Would the intervention be before the dierolls (so the character is effectively trying to replace normal death roll with a 1 in 6 chance of death) or after (in which case presumably every set of orders at the front will have to include a standard sentence?)

[Puckohue]

A very neat addition, filling a gap for high-POW characters. I wonder, though, about the details of "avoid death at the front". Would the intervention be before the dierolls (so the character is effectively trying to replace normal death roll with a 1 in 6 chance of death) or after (in which case presumably every set of orders at the front will have to include a standard sentence?)

The latter, and yes it would require a "standard sentence".

In theory it would be possible to allow an attempt at divine intervention to avoid the death roll, but that would probably drain a character of Power pretty bad, whether or not they needed to avoid death or not.

[Rufus]

I believe this makes it more like Glorantha and Runequest and as such, I support this innovation.