Divine Rank
Divine Rank is a ranking system used to rank the power of the gods in D&D.
Ranks
Rank 0 (quasi-deities)
These are called quasi-deities or hero-gods. They're sometimes half-gods. They have a few worshipers. They're "sort of but not really" deities. They're mostly just super strong and immortal. They can't even grant spells.
Examples:
Ranks 1-5 (demigods)
Called demigods. Apparently in D&D "demigod" means a low-level god and not a half-god.
These are the weakest of the real deities. They have anywhere from a few hundred to a few thousand worshipers.
Apparently demigods have the power to destroy "an entire world." I'm not 100% sure what that means. I think that means "planet." Hopefully it doesn't mean "plane" or "universe" because we're literally only just getting started.
Ranks 6-10 (lesser gods)
These are called lesser gods. They have between a few thousand worshipers to tens of thousands of worshipers.
Examples:
Ranks 11-15 (intermediate gods)
These are called intermediate deities. They have hundreds of thousands of worshipers.
This is about as powerful a deity can hope to get without pulling some shenanigans.
Example:
- Lolth
- Pholtus
- Sashelas
- Wee Jas
Ranks 16-20 (greater gods)
These are called greater gods. They have millions of worshipers. The mightiest among them rule over other gods like mortal sovereigns rule over common folk.
Divine Rank 19 is the cutoff for most beings. This is the DR that some heads of pantheons have, such as Corellon Larethian, Moradin, Ra, Zeus, and Odin.
Only one god in D&D has a DR of 20, and that's Taiia.
Ranks 21+
Beings above DR 21 are called overgods, overdeities, or overpowers. They're far beyond our understanding. We know next to nothing about them. In the direct words of the 3e SRD:
These entities are beyond the ken of mortals and care nothing for worshipers. They do not grant spells, do not answer prayers, and do not respond to queries. If they are known at all, it is to a handful of scholars on the Material Plane. They are called overdeities. In some pantheistic systems, the consent of an overdeity is required to become a god.
And here's how the Forgotten Realms wiki describes them:
An Overgod, also called an over-power, was a type of deity that existed beyond the normal ranking of the gods and of concepts such as alignment. Such beings existed beyond the bounds of the normal cosmology.
