You guys might remember that when we were discussing mechanics for Godspeed, I advocated for [i]extreme[/i] nerfs to the gods. Like, restricting their powers almost entirely to things within their portfolios. I seem to remember that being an unpopular idea, and a few voices said that at that point we'd be dealing with a superhero RP instead of a god one.

Point being, I'm fine with a widespread cutback in the power level of gods; I'm just surprised there seems to be so much support for it now.

I previously mentioned offhand that a potential definition of a 'divine being' would be one that possesses the capacity to travel between the Spheres (although depending on the destination and starting point, this might well be an arduous and long task and not a manner of teleportation). This ties in nicely with BBeast's idea to have our new concept of 'demigods' or 'young gods' restricted to Galbar until they can earn access to another Sphere either through their own narrative and/or the help of a sponsoring god. In light of those two ideas, I think we can toss out my earlier mention about it perhaps being interesting to make it possible for gods to attune themselves to Galbar's sphere itself and run around among the mortals like Thor; perhaps if someone explicitly wants to create a character around it then they could have an exception, but by and large it just makes so much more sense for every god to have their own Sphere separate from Galbar and all others.

Anyways, I got a bit sidetracked there. The point was that gods should be able to [i]somehow[/i] travel between Spheres. Maybe they use some special bridge like the Bifrost, with the permission of the Architect or some other god that chooses to take on a gatekeeper role. Or maybe they just slowly fly up to the Spheres above and/or jump down great abysses that lead into the ones below; either way it wouldn't quite be teleportation of the magnitude that we have here.

So what do you guys think about implementing largescale general nerfs like Capy and Rainbow have suggested, with Portfolios and/or Clusters potentially offering means for a few gods to do things like the ones in Mk 2 do. I'm thinking that a god of (Wind)(Flight)(Birds) might well have a Cluster like 'Travel' that would allow them to rapidly move around the universe, and maybe true teleportation could be achieved if a god took a Portfolio for it, but the point is that most would not innately be able to travel at such speeds or teleport.

That's just innate powers, though; I do like Capy's idea of being a lot more lenient when it comes to powers granted by artifacts or magical sites that a god creates. Lots of gods had accoutrements that granted them their powers, and it'd be an interesting theme to bring here as well.