You mean besides being mentioned in the Deities and Demigods?
Or that the astral plane is literally littered with corpses of forgotten gods? Not slain in battle, nor by plot rituals, but simply dead because people forgot about them?
The option of dying gods go for several types of death, not insinuating that lack of faith led to death (someone with the god template doesn't die either if he loses its last god level) and the drifting corpses in the Astral is only an option for a cosmology, not the rule. Again, an houserule at best.
All irrelevant when the tanuki dog can use and abuse psychic reformation at leisure.
No it can't.
Because "gods" now suddenly means guys that stand for nothing and care about nothing it seems.
They're eco warriors and super tricksters. Already more moral than most faith-based gods.
I can plug the Nature or Trickery portfolio/domain in there, no problem.
If you want to make some wannabe dog with delusions of grandeur, whatever, but you don't get to rewrite D&D cosmology at your leisure while doing so.
Writing a cosmology is a DM's job and has nothing to do with this. If you're talking about rewriting the mechanisms of divinity, that's pretty much what you did with the god template by getting out of it being a system and making it an accessible class.
And having it depending on faith alone.
There are more than one kind of god and so there can be more than one incarnation of the thing. Making things work is also what homebrew is about.
There is a path for faith-fueled kaminuki. The others aren't.
Divine Rank:The god has a Divine Rank equal to her god level, which determine the power of several of her godly abilities. Divine Rank cannot be boosted by any other means, including bloodlines and similar, unless the ability specifically says it increases your Divine Rank, both words.
You went out of your way to explain that it is possible to increase it by other sources, as long as it is specific.
If you don't like the idea of other divinity-based homebrew working with that one, then close the door.
Its a path to divinity like another and the divinity is very real. Divine power doesn't have to stack with other sources of divine power but it could make sense that a divine being that wells its power from more than one source be stronger than if it did from a single one out of the lot it uses. So either full-stackability, half like martial initiator levels from different classes or none like caster level from two different spellcasting classes.
If its none, then alright. The divine ranks will be independent.
Changing the name is meaningless if you then go out of your way to make it stack with Divine ranks for all intents and purposes anyway.
I meant that they are not divine ranks as per Deities and Demigods' divine ranks. The problem you came in with was that using the term 'Divine Ranks' could confuse people and allow some to claim it comes with other goodies as per the book/srd.
As long as its clear that the divine ranks in this homebrew (and yours as well) isn't the same as the divine ranks of DnD's system for divinity, that problem is solved.
Edit: Corrected. Now the divine ranks do not stack and it has been clarified that they do not grant any of the advantages detailed in the dnd divinity system.
