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3	''Ye Gods'' is a Bay 12 forum game where players take control of their own unique gods and mess around in the Bubble, also known as the universe.
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5	Run by Kilojoule Proton on the [[Roleplay/Bay12PlayByPostGames Bay12 forums]]. It can be found [[http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=144651.0 here]]. It started in 2014 and was then abandoned in 2015.
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8	!!''Ye Gods'' contains examples of:
9	%%* AbnormalAmmo: Explosive crossbow bolts.
10	* AbortedArc: The war stuff, where the humans under Yaos were to fight the Gruens under Grauel with lots of side factions. Unfortunately, it got cancelled because plot development occurred [[spoiler:which had the two warring sides make peace in the aftermath of the monster invasion.]]
11	* AllPlanetsAreEarthlike: Played straight, initially, with the only two planets being Earthlike and each having a Moon-like moon. Since then, other planets including gas giants and an ice planet have been made.
12	%%* AuraVision: Available to both gods and mortals.
13	* BerserkButton: A few gods have these. Results may vary.
14	** Harming Fusil's followers will hit his.
15	** Don't try guilt-tripping Darruth unless you want a [[ClusterFBomb stern talking-to]].
16	** Widespread destruction of buildings is asking for a FantasticNuke from Khaziraad delivered via Kyloth.
17	* BigEater: Grauel, his archangel The Devourer, and his aligned race Gruen, each are absolute omnivores who gain power from their diet.
18	* BilingualBonus: Many names are taken from languages other than English, including French, Finnish and Latin.
19	%%* BlueAndOrangeMorality: Every god with its own, though some try to subscribe to [[BlackAndWhiteMorality good]].
20	%%* BloodMagic: Specialty of Malakath worshippers and Malakath herself.
21	* ChainsawGood: Golems can use their magical physiology to create chainsaws and used these on one occasion to express their distaste for Malakath's teachings by killing her angels with them. It didn't end well for the golems.
22	* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: The gods' text have their own unique colour and style to differentiate between each other.
23	* DarkIsNotEvil: Malakath. She regularly [[YourSoulIsMine eats people's souls]], is covered in a red aura, [[RedEyesTakeWarning her eyes glow red]], she wears black plate armour, she ate a pair of angels as her very first action... yet she is one of the gods that firmly labels herself as 'good'. She believes she is good because she helps people who don't worship her and she only eats evil souls.
24	%%* DeusExMachina: Everything that happens in the game is essentially this by default.
25	* DidWeJustHaveTeaWithCthulhu: A few of the gods seem to talk to the Void a lot, only encouraging its [[TheCorruption corruptions]]. Not coincidentally, they're the most likely to tolerate it.
26	* EldritchAbomination: The Null, beings from outside the Bubble, always trying to form [[DealWithTheDevil pacts]] with every being willing to listen.
27	* EverythingTryingToKillYou: The Island of Death and Riches features many, ''many'' things that can kill an inexperienced adventurer. Seasoned adventurers too, actually.
28	%%* EvilVersusEvil: A cynical but possible interpretation of the gods' endless fighting.
29	%%* GemEncrusted: Gem Dragons are literally this.
30	%%* GodOfGood: Darruth, at least by title.
31	* GodsNeedPrayerBadly: Gods are made out of Essence, and use it as both "hit points" and "mana". A god primarily gains Essence by being worshipped.
32	* {{Golem}}: One of sentient races are Golems, though they can be created out of either stone or metal.
33	* GoodIsNotNice: Darruth, God of Good when [[ClusterFBomb speaking]] to some of the other gods. Averted in every other case, as Darruth thinks being nice is ''required'' to be good.
34	* GreatBigBookOfEverything: Yaos' [[http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=144651.msg5779202#msg5779202 Bestiary of the Worlds]] contains a list of every known god-created race. Each edition corresponds to a change in format.
35	* GunNut: Fusil, God of Weapons. As the game is set in a mostly-medieval fantasy world, he and his Angels are the only ones who have been revealed to have access to firearms.
36	* ImprovisedGolems: There exist snow golems and ice golems. There were other creatures that could have been argued to be improvised golems, but using anything remotely similar to Golems for war and destruction is one of Khaziraad's {{Berserk Button}}s.
37	* JerkassGods: In fact, the GM has stated that every large catastrophe had a god responsible for them.
38	* KillTheGod: [[spoiler:Yaos, the God of Humans and Ambition]] is the only active god to have been permakilled. Other Gods "die" from time to time, losing half their maximum essence, but so far have all either revived themselves or have had a friend revive them.
39	* KillerGameMaster: The GM says all the disasters are the players' faults, but he also says he [[BlatantLies never lies]].
40	* KnightTemplarBigBrother: If you harm Fusil's angels or his followers, he will go after you, your allies, your angels, your followers, and anything even associated with you.
41	* LiteralGenie: The Oracle, so very much. There's a lot of complaining from the players who probably sent questions privately. The worst one we can actually see is:
42	-->'''Q:''' What God caused the diseases that wiped out 1/4 of several races?\
43	'''A:''' None of them caused the diseases that wiped out a quarter of three races.
44	:: This could be read as nobody playing with diseases, nobody playing with all three diseases alone, or nobody playing with diseases that wiped out a quarter because they wiped out less or more. It borders on JackassGenie, which the GM himself admitted.
45	* MagicalLibrary: The Divine Library magically creates and houses copies of every single book made in the Corporeal Realm, excluding diaries made by angels after some gods complained about it. Ever since all Void texts within were stolen by an unknown party, it's been guarded by a variety of traps and guards.
46	* MedievalStasis: The mortal worlds have ''slowly'' been growing out of this with the advent of the printing press and alchemy.
47	* NotSoOmniscientCouncilOfBickering: The Council of Gods. Very few decisions actually get made, and even then a god will usually keep arguing against them.
48	%%* OrwellianRetcon: [[http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=144651.msg5836940;topicseen#msg5836940 Yaos' exchange with the Void.]]
49	* OurAngelsAreDifferent: Angels exist in ''Ye Gods'' as servants of the god who made them. Their physical appearances are what their gods want them to be. To name a few examples; Yaos' are classical winged Humans, Azem's Shiny Ones are Mountwyrms, and some of Darruth's are based on [[EldritchAbomination/MythologyAndReligion biblical angels]].
50	* OurDragonsAreDifferent: Star Dragons are nocturnal, Gem Dragons love hoarding riches and are coated in a strong coat of gems, Ikakus fire energy beams out of their mouths, Mountwyrms are humanoid dragons, Tailwyrms are Mountwyrms without the wings and with long tails, and wyverns are small, non-sapient dragons with only two legs.
51	* PersonOfMassDestruction: Not even counting all the Gods, at least two known Archangels have abilities on par with nuclear weapons. Tykki and Kyloth come to mind.
52	%%* PhysicalGod: The premise of the game is that players play as these.
53	* ThePowerOfBlood: Blood magic can be used for healing and combat.
54	%%** Malakath, Goddess of Souls and '''Blood'''
55	* TheRival: Rivalries between gods are common and ever-shifting. A few big ones include:
56	** Yaos vs. Grauel.
57	** Fusil vs. Cim.
58	** Fusil vs. Darruth.
59	** Fusil vs. Yaos.
60	* RasputinianDeath: It took six successful attempts before [[spoiler:Yaos]] stayed dead, mostly by using ResurrectiveImmortality.
61	* {{Reincarnation}}: Mortals who don't worship a god with an afterlife as their primary deity will reincarnate on another planet.
62	* ResurrectiveImmortality:
63	** Played with. A god might revive in a weakened state if they made plans prior to their death. This method won't work if the god was [[DeaderThanDead permakilled]] and gods don't automatically come with Resurrective Immortality. If a god had no plans in place and was permakilled, nothing can bring them back beyond very uncommon events.
64	** By default, angels will revive on their own unless their soul was stolen or destroyed.
65	%%* SirSwearsALot: Darruth became this after reading about [[spoiler:the attack on Strike Team Fusil]].
66	%%* SoulPower:
67	%%** All magic is this.
68	%%** Malakath, Goddess of '''Souls''' and Blood.
69	* TakeOverTheWorld: This was the initial goal of the [[spoiler:Merman Emperor]] but stopped after conquering just a few hundred kilometres [[spoiler:inland]].
70	* TheyKilledKennyAgain: The other gods entirely stopped caring after [[spoiler:Yaos']] first couple of revivals.
71	* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Jellyrolls, for KJP and by extension much of the world. They have shown up in the form of assassins, in explosive variants, and even have Null with this as their sphere.
72	* VoluntaryShapeshifter: Gods and angels can manifest in any form only limited by the player's imagination, whether for combat or dealing with mortals. However, forms with special powers may have a cost in Essence.
73	* WarGod: Fusil, god of Weapons is considered one. Kujin, god of Martial Arts and Self-Defence [[spoiler:while he was alive.]]
74	* {{Whatevermancy}}: Lawmancy and magmamancy have been explicitly named.
75	* WolfMan: Comes in two flavours - Lycae and Wolf Person. The difference between the two is similar to the difference between Homo Neanderthalis and Homo Sapiens.
76	* XanatosSpeedChess: Oh boy. Due to the implied rule forbidding public war against gods (and the explicit Council rule against killing gods), dozens of plans and counter-plans are played behind the scenes, leaving those uninvolved with only minor context clues and sometimes the aftermaths of said plans.

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