Min/Max Boards

I'm currently running a game where the main theme of the story is ascension. The PCs each have a spark of divinity and a representative item that represents their divinity and will grow their panoply as they advance in the game.

Now Deities and Demigods and their DvR systems are shit.

So I've resorted to extra feats, class features from other classes and unique artifacts to represent their power. But my players are still not yet to fully grasp their power and before that happens, I need something else to represent their power.

Should I continue as I have done (extra feats, class features, artifacts) or does anyone of you have an alternative deity system I could mull over?

I would like to seek help from you fellow DMs.

I am currently running a game where there is this antagonist organization that sends agents after my players. This second encounter with such an agent led to a very boring and protracted fight. One of my players is a grapple specialist that managed to get her attacker in a grapple.

Now this is a good thing because it effectively shuts the attacker down (who was a caster-base), but it still ended up a battle of attrition where both parties deal very piecemeal damage to each other.

Now my problem is, the agent managed to escape with in-game knowledge that one of the protagonists is too damn good with grapples. I have in-game justification to have the organization prepared and ready against her grappling antics. But OOC-wise, should I deny my player this legitimate melee tactic to shut a caster down by making extra precautions in-game against such attacks?

I'm seeking help from someone who knows how to use some kind of software to help me trace out a world map, and then also provide portions of that same map in pieces. It's for a campaign that I will be running soon.

Can anyone help?

When I first played D&D till now, certain DR just doesn't seem to make sense to me.

Like example, I'd expect angels and demons/devils that fight against each other constantly to be resistant to each other's attacks. So for a good outsider to have DR/evil means that they're only more resistant to anything that is not evil.

In one of my early campaigns, we were facing really extremist good outsiders who wanted to decimate a nation Sodom-style because the king is a real demonic jackass. We tried to take down that outsider because we have an on-going evacuation that just isn't complete yet. We who are on the side of good to protect innocents, have a hard time dealing with an obviously good (but stupidly extreme) outsider. So in theory, good people never really had a reason to attack a good outsider, a DR that penalizes like that doesn't make sense. And we had to purposely summon an evil outsider just to help us stack more damage while ignoring that DR.

In another campaign, we were playing villains trying to hasten the apocalypse (because whoever survives is technically in-charge of the new World 2.0). We battled against fellow villains, and evil outsiders included. DR/good made sense as evil outsiders would probably have to contend with their own kind constantly. But we totally fucked a good outsider's shit, despite him being "the Angel of Justice and Valor" whose story was pretty much about him an asskicker of evil people, and we bypassed that DR like it doesn't exist.

So while we felt happy to have a slight mechanical advantage against an arch-foe that makes us legitimately scared, outside of the game we felt that the angel was facing a clear disadvantage DR-wise.

So guys, I'm wondering if you guys ever thought about whether the DR system makes flavor sense or not. Let's discuss about this.

Wondering if any of you guys can help me out.

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