Template:Demigod status assumed/doc

Planar Adventures 70 and Inner Sea Gods 317 state that demigods "grant their clerics access to four domains" rather than the five domains granted by a full deity in Pathfinder First Edition. This rule is sometimes used on PathfinderWiki to derive and classify the status of a deity. However, as this is a "crunchy" ruling that may override the text, the assumption needs to be called out and, we hope, verified at a later stage unequivocally with a referenced source.

Furthermore, James Jacobs has stated this on the Paizo forum in December 2018:

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The best way to tell is that deities offer 5 domains while demigods offer 4 domains.

Note that "god" and "goddess" are more generic terms we use to cover anything that grants spells. Only "deity" and "demigod" and "quasi-deity" are the terms used when we want to be precise about power levels.

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However, there are also especially-powerful quasi-deities that offer 4 domains—and then per James Jacobs in 2023, as of Pathfinder Second Edition mechanical distinctions between full gods and demigods are heavily de-emphasized and might be further de-emphasized over time. Some of First Edition's several demigods are referred to more vaguely in Second Edition as "gods" or "deities", with no explicit disambiguation of whether or not the usage specifically means full deities. The 2024 sourcebook Divine Mysteries's glossary simply does not provide explicit definitions for the three divine ranks. For more context on these topics, see Meta:Demigod and Talk:Demigod.

This template serves to remind the readers and editors that this assumption and derivation has been made without a specific canon use of the designation "demigod". Please add this template {{Demigod status assumed}} to any page where the demigod status has been determined solely by the number of domains granted in Pathfinder First Edition.

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