[Twan]

- Why exactly should the amount of points you get be generally lowered?

Because pretenders starting imprisoned are already more powerful than a dom2 pretender, what may have become a lot more powerful with the actual base points + my options. And also because many players have said that bless strategies with imprisoned gods are overpowered in small games, and are starting to ask for nerfs, so I've reduced a little the points for the normal imprisonment.

-Also, why are you worried about people taking dominion 10, good scales and being unable to actually take part in real world events?

I'm not worried. It's just that with the "petrified + in a far away plane" option and say an Oracle you can have all scales at +3 and 10 dominion if he's allowed to have a base dominion of 4, so all players wanting a "high scales only" strategy would take an Oracle petrified in a far away plane and end exactly the same, with dominion 10. Reducing base dominion to 1 for petrified pretenders, force to make some choices even for them, they may take all positive scales at 3 and dominion 5 or go for a higher dominion but with some lower scales.