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TheWanderer
2013-07-27, 07:32 AM
Ok while browsing the interwebs I discovered the Super Genius Games Godlings (Adept, Clever, Eldritch, and Mighty) each of which gain abilities and scores based on their God or abilities they themselves focus on. As it stats children don't always gain the abilities associated with their divine parent.

So my idea is to somehow use these classes (subclasses?) to build a playable version of Percy Jackson universe (Big fan of the books)

How should I go about this to make it closer to the book universe? In that universe the kids normally do gain abilities associated with their divine parent but are unique in and of themselves. But people like Percy who are sons of say the Sea God can manipulate Water, while Leo is the son of the God of Fire and can control fire while Frank is the son of the God of War and has no elemental link but is naturally very tactical. Annabeth has this same issue with Athena being the goddess of wisdom and her gift from her mother being her superior intelligence.

How would one balance these things out in a proper RP without seeming to favor those who come from elemental parents over other gods who have very interesting abilities and a lot of good fluff to come from?

Adept Godling (http://www.d20pfsrd.com/classes/3rd-party-classes/super-genius-games/adept-godling)
Clever Godling (http://www.d20pfsrd.com/classes/3rd-party-classes/super-genius-games/clever-godling)
Mighty Godling (http://www.d20pfsrd.com/classes/3rd-party-classes/super-genius-games/mighty-godling)
Eldritch Godling (http://www.d20pfsrd.com/classes/3rd-party-classes/super-genius-games/eldritch-godling)

TheWanderer
2013-07-27, 02:37 PM
Changed the title a bit to make it show it is a Request not a build already constructed.

Amnoriath
2013-07-27, 06:14 PM
Well using those as your bases I wouldn't worry about elemental types overriding the others. The truth is the elemental cleric domains have rather lackluster abilities, some of the spells are decent.
What you should worry about is whether or not they choose a base with spells or not. While all are playable and perform well Godling spells are strictly better than any spell they get in scion talents. In truth the creators only made two classes and then each class has two different frames because Eldritch/Adept and Mighty/Clever have the exact same chart lay out and abilities to fill them respectively.

HereBeMonsters
2013-07-28, 07:51 AM
Big fan of the series, would actually love to see a passable homebrew for it. Will be watching this thread.

Starbuck_II
2013-07-28, 11:47 AM
Ok while browsing the interwebs I discovered the Super Genius Games Godlings (Adept, Clever, Eldritch, and Mighty) each of which gain abilities and scores based on their God or abilities they themselves focus on. As it stats children don't always gain the abilities associated with their divine parent.

So my idea is to somehow use these classes (subclasses?) to build a playable version of Percy Jackson universe (Big fan of the books)

How should I go about this to make it closer to the book universe? In that universe the kids normally do gain abilities associated with their divine parent but are unique in and of themselves. But people like Percy who are sons of say the Sea God can manipulate Water, while Leo is the son of the God of Fire and can control fire while Frank is the son of the God of War and has no elemental link but is naturally very tactical. Annabeth has this same issue with Athena being the goddess of wisdom and her gift from her mother being her superior intelligence.

How would one balance these things out in a proper RP without seeming to favor those who come from elemental parents over other gods who have very interesting abilities and a lot of good fluff to come from?

Adept Godling (http://www.d20pfsrd.com/classes/3rd-party-classes/super-genius-games/adept-godling)
Clever Godling (http://www.d20pfsrd.com/classes/3rd-party-classes/super-genius-games/clever-godling)
Mighty Godling (http://www.d20pfsrd.com/classes/3rd-party-classes/super-genius-games/mighty-godling)
Eldritch Godling (http://www.d20pfsrd.com/classes/3rd-party-classes/super-genius-games/eldritch-godling)

Don't forget Hazels power of money (control anything of value like diamonds making them move, call forth out of the ground, etc)
And Frank has two god powers not just war powers remember Wish basically. He originally wished to be a great archer so he became one.
But to counter this much power he has to protect his stick.
Percy can control water and not breath in it, but Frank can cast wish?!
Neptune's gift seems random
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Amnoriath
2013-07-28, 02:09 PM
If homebrew abilities are what you want to have then you may want to consider getting rid of vancian casting and replace them with binder-like abilities(some passive and others active plus more power but have a cool-down period). Percy is self-expalanatory you could copy a couple of abilities in the vestiges word for word. Frank could get more hero points, the cavalier's tactician ability, and could cast the 3.5 heroics spell to give the use of a combat feat. Annabeth could have something akin to bardic knowledge as well as other divination-like abilities.

Admiral Squish
2013-07-28, 05:17 PM
Actually, I wrote up a set of demigod base classes for a percy jackson game I'm playing in right now (before classes, it was just a set of semi-appropriate spell like abilities). I might post them up, but I'll have to reformat them for posting.
I only made five of the olympians so far, but if they get a good response, I might make more.

Debihuman
2013-07-28, 05:45 PM
Actually, I wrote up a set of demigod base classes for a percy jackson game I'm playing in right now (before classes, it was just a set of semi-appropriate spell like abilities). I might post them up, but I'll have to reformat them for posting.
I only made five of the olympians so far, but if they get a good response, I might make more.

Please post them. I'd love to take a look.

I assume that a child of a god and mortal start with hero god stats and Divine Rank 0 (see Divine rules in the online SRD or Deities and Demigods) and would then take one of Super Genius Games' Godling classes or one of your classes.

I am not familiar enough with Pathfinder to see how the classes would translate to 3.5.

Debby