Talk:New World/@comment-46.166.179.34-20180421100451/@comment-45.56.46.26-20180502111231

Start a new religion and control it from the background while rapidly leveling up a clerical caste with Paladin orders.

Just as an experiment, mostly, but probably something based on mid-Enlightenment (Protestant reformation) Christianity would beat all the New World religions to pieces in terms of generating faith points or whatever for divine class level advancements. The most OP aspect of Christianity is that, historically, the more Christians are brutally killed, the faster the religion spreads (due to the central Christ-figure narrative). In a place like the New World that would constitute a massive advantage (in contrast to how it seems to have largely died out in 21XX).

This means that the religious organization could be extremely decentralized, making hunting down the originator very difficult. Going with primitive Christianity (itinerent Apostles supported by sparse miracles) could make hunting down the originator fundamentally impossible.

Espescially if you weren't actually a cleric build, but rather a thief or other stealth based build. You'd have countless people willing to lay down their lives to save you despite not even knowing that you were particularly important.