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Disciple games
Disciple games are a way of playing Dominions as a team game. Only one player per team will play the role of a pretender trying to rise to godhood. Others play the part of the "disciples", which have no dominion of their own (and therefore no scale), but otherwise behave independently. They only get 300 points for the design of their disciple leader, as opposed to the 425 pretenders get.
Disciple games differ in a few other ways from the default free-for-all dominion games. For example, no prophet can be appointed since the disciples replace them thematically, and players from the same team have the option to exchange provinces.
Pretenders and Disciples
When playing a Disciples Game, the most-significant difference you might find when setting up is the kind of options you'll have for choosing your Chassis. If you're a Disciple, your Chassis must have a base Dominion strength of 2 or lower. If you're the Team Leader, the ACTUAL Pretender, your Chassis must have a base Dominion strength of 3 or higher. On top of that, you won't get to decide Dominion strength of Scales if you're the Disciple, and your point total is the same regardless of what your Team Leader goes with for Imprisonment level or scales.
Team Leaders will generally be either Idols or Titans… 
…while Disciples will generally be either Beasts or Mages. 
The Disciples emerge roughly halfway into their Pretender's Dormancy or Imprisonment, spread Dominion like a Prophet would, and are always blessed in their Pretender's Dominion. Disciples can also be recalled by Priests, like Pretenders. They aren't true Pretender Gods, though, so they CANNOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCE claim Thrones; it's the job of your natural 
3's (or 2's with the relevant artifacts) to claim them, or the job of the leading Pretender.
The Dominion of a Disciple Team
The Dominion of a Disciple Team is the Dominion of the Team Leader. The Bless of a Disciple Team is also the Bless of the Team Leader. This has some national side effects:
- Asphodel, LA R'lyeh, MA Ermor, and Lemuria don't have Popkill if they're Disciples, but their Disciples will have it if they're the Team Leader.
- Freespawn given by Dominion is only given to the Team Leader, however.
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