Post/Author/DateTime	Post
feartheinvinceblehamster 05-11-05, 04:22 PM	i have one, a warlock who became a death slaad who became a slaad lord who became a lesser god.
snowlynx 05-11-05, 05:02 PM	I think most of my characters would be horrified by the concept of having to take on all the responsibilities of a god. That being said, however, my DM once ran a game around the concept of us all being really minor gods of useless things, or silly comcepts. One of the deities was the god of kleptomaniacs, with a cloak of holding. They stole objects themselves without knowing it....
Draco Strang 05-11-05, 05:07 PM	Never. I would never let my PCs assume the status of deity.
eudas 05-11-05, 06:29 PM	...why would you want to? eudas
ehrin 05-11-05, 11:23 PM	none. In fact, since 1979, when i started playing DnD, I have never advanced a character past 10th level.
Ut-Napishtim 05-12-05, 02:33 AM	none. In fact, since 1979, when i started playing DnD, I have never advanced a character past 10th level. Yeah, that's pretty much the same with me, except I've only been playing since 1987.
ImmortalBlueMage 05-12-05, 03:14 AM	None. Ever. And never shall it happen.
Avatarblu 05-12-05, 09:13 AM	none. In fact, since 1979, when i started playing DnD, I have never advanced a character past 10th level. Lame. Characters earn it, they should get it. I am not saying they should advance to godhood. But levels 11 - 20 are not that difficult. Perhaps you should pick up some new tricks.
CzarGarrett 05-12-05, 09:32 AM	One character, who I immediately retired upon ascension. It was in the FR and became a principle rival of Auril.
Twisted Puppy 05-12-05, 02:00 PM	none. In fact, since 1979, when i started playing DnD, I have never advanced a character past 10th level. Lame. Characters earn it, they should get it. I am not saying they should advance to godhood. But levels 11 - 20 are not that difficult. Perhaps you should pick up some new tricks. What's lame about it?? :ahem: Perhaps they simply enjoyed playing lower levels more, or did not have the time to invest in a campaign. I've been playing since 1978 (My sister still has our old boxed D&D set) and have had only a single character top 20th level. I've found that the middle levels - say 5 to 10 - are some of the most interesting and challenging parts of a character's "career." I have absolutely zero interest in advancing a character to godhood. Just because your preferences are not the same as someone else' does not make them "lame."
weasel fierce 05-12-05, 02:22 PM	Most people I have gamed with, have preferred the 3-10 range most. The old classic D&D sets were perfect for us, because they covered till level 14. Of course, classic D&D DID offer the rules to become an immortal, though I dont know of anyone who actually played up to level 36, AND completed all the quests.
ToxicWiz 05-12-05, 03:49 PM	No one has reached godhood in my group... mostly because we don't know how to, and no character has reached above 15th level.
Aeromus 05-12-05, 04:10 PM	I played a cleric of Shar (Forgotten Realms) in an epic level campaign that obtained divine rank 3. He took over the "shadow weave" when Shar was destroyed by the combined efforts of Lathander, Selune, and Chantea. Something about having 17 cleric caster levels over your diety seems fishy to me.
green_yawgmoth 05-12-05, 04:46 PM	One. My first 3.0 character, in fact. He slayed Orcus, and together with his massive amount of followers (Legendary Commander) and Orcus's near divinity, became a lesser god. He had a standing edict that each of his worshippers had to convert at least one person to his religon to become a cleric, and thus got to intermediate deity standing in just over 100 years. none. In fact, since 1979, when i started playing DnD, I have never advanced a character past 10th level. Is that because you get bored with the character once they hit double digits, your campaigns don't last long enough to top 10, or are you one of those "level 11 OMG SO B0RKED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1" people? Because in my scant 7 years years of playing, I have never met anyone who has both stopped at 10, and not been one of the above. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v91/yawgmoth/kittyjig.gif
JezzTheLame 05-12-05, 09:03 PM	One character, became a demigod. In an FR campaign. Not a god per se, more a saint of Tymora. Like Gwaeron Windstrom is to Mielikki. Ao and Tymora rewarded him by allowing him to continue existing. And so he ascended. It was at the end of a campaign and the DM rewarded a few of us for Roleplaying.
feartheinvinceblehamster 05-12-05, 10:10 PM	Yeah, i retire my PCs once they become gods to. except the warlock may be brought back for a oncore(sp?) round in a battle between the inevitables and slaad on the material plane,
ehrin 05-12-05, 10:37 PM	Green Yawg (and others who inquire)... my lack of character above 11th comes directly from an inability to keep a group together long enough to advance that far. Although I play steadily (roughly every week for the past 3.5 years, for example), every time we try to have someone else besides me DM (so I can play), they end up quitting, or the group disbands, or several folks have family changes, etc. So, new character gets stuck back in the file folder, we get a new DM, and he wants all new characters in his world, etc.. ad nauseum. I have DM'ed several groups up to 12th level, one to 15th, and tons up to 10th or so. But, never been lucky enough to have a solid year or so of playing without a new DM needing to come in.
angryman 05-12-05, 11:06 PM	I've had one character become a god, and it was fun but then again I hadn't finished high school either, so...I think it's one of those things that younger and more immature players enjoy doing, (I don't mean that as a criticism, hell some of my most fun games were in JHS) and if you insult me for saying that, then you're probably too immature to accept the fact...
green_yawgmoth 05-13-05, 12:16 AM	Green Yawg (and others who inquire)... my lack of character above 11th comes directly from an inability to keep a group together long enough to advance that far. Although I play steadily (roughly every week for the past 3.5 years, for example), every time we try to have someone else besides me DM (so I can play), they end up quitting, or the group disbands, or several folks have family changes, etc. So, new character gets stuck back in the file folder, we get a new DM, and he wants all new characters in his world, etc.. ad nauseum. I have DM'ed several groups up to 12th level, one to 15th, and tons up to 10th or so. But, never been lucky enough to have a solid year or so of playing without a new DM needing to come in. Egh, been there, done that. way too many times. it's the reason I refuse to start at levels <5; whenever I do, the players never stick together longer than 4 sessions. I've been playing in a campaign where we started at 18, and we're up to 36 now. With my god character, we played almost every night for 2 years, starting at about 12. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v91/yawgmoth/kittyjig.gif
SnowbearK 05-13-05, 04:56 AM	Quite a few of them in fact. Usually because I'm the DM and, being stuck for names and history for a pantheon, recycle retired PCs from yesteryear. I did have two Immortal characters though. It's a pain in the watch how much time we wasted going through all the freakin' quests, now that I look back on it. I could have learned advanced molecular biology and rocket science in that time...ah well.
Radagast 05-13-05, 12:58 PM	Godhood, no, but I have one wizard-cleric type who's epic level and who became a nearly immortal major power in a world. One of the current games I am in intends on us to go as far as possible - up to 30th level, if we can live that long - but it is not a game of "let's see how powerful we can make the players." In fact, considering the overwhelming responsibilities our characters are burdened with as we draw near epic levels, some may be quite happy to retire into obscurity rather than try to cross the last barrier and ascend. It's been a great campaign, and one that can be a humbling reminder of the phrase "with great power comes great responsibility." I am not sure I'd want to be a god...
Norhg 05-13-05, 01:19 PM	None as of yet, major players after retirement however. Fairly major while adventuring. My character in the "Me, killing my brother?" thread has got quite a tale to tell.
Twisted Puppy 05-13-05, 01:22 PM	Our epic campaign came to an end at about 23rd level, when the only two surviving original party members retired. They were married, and the husband (elf rogue/duelist) decided that the best way to keep his wife (human ranger/psy warrior) out of dangerous adventures was to keep her knocked up... not that he admits to thinking that way ;) Five kids and eighteen years later... a new campaign started, with relatives/children of all the old characters.
Platinu Kismet 05-13-05, 01:41 PM	I achieved 11th level with a druid once. I felt pretty good about that but I didn't declare myself 'a god' by any means. :D
Rewes 05-13-05, 02:29 PM	In 28 years of playing I had 1 character reach deity status... A level 28 cleric, in a campaign which took 5 real life years to acheive....(7 years in total for the campaign) The 4th and 5th years revolved around a single plot. (bringing a dead god back to life). This is where he became a god. Ironic though, in the 6th year of playing, my character stepped down from godhood... The reason was simple, he finally learned how to live for himself, and not to always do what was expected of him. It took godhood make him learn this lesson. ======================================== =========== My curent campaign I'm involed in, is an "Ascension Campaign". It's designed to specifically make PC's into gods. The World is Deimos, a young world who's previous god's died in defending their planet from yugoloth invasion. (due to arrogance and neglegence, their success cost their lives) The surviving overpower (unbeknownst to the people of the world) has placed proxies in charge of maintaining religion, as he searches for those who will become the "new gods". Will the PC's successfully do what it takes to achive this glorious pinnacle? Who knows.... But the opportunity is there. There's been plenty of challenges, and some unfortunate deaths, but the current party is doing rather well. It's been a very good campaign so far.
Cravensson 05-13-05, 03:08 PM	I only ever had one character reach godhood, and that was only quasi-deity status. I undertook a quest for a god, and the reward was the Divine Spark. Of course, it took me from 5th level to 30th level to complete the quest. And I ****** off Vecna, so I got a feeling the character won't like being a god very much.
Salla 05-13-05, 04:57 PM	Well, none, but I've never been in a game where ascending to godhood was possible (the universe simply didn't work that way).