[jscott]

Balanced pretender wasn't the right word.

I sort of meant is there a guide that points out obvious wastes of points, for example. I seem to remember in Dominions 2 that pushing your magic levels on your Pretender beyond a certain point wasn't worth it, since they level up somewhat in the game (at least as I recall) and the cost at startup becomes prohibitive. I just couldn't remember what that level was.

Plus some of the physical forms are very expensive, but aren't super combatants, so I was wondering which forms are just too hard to use in general for a beginning to get an efficient value of the points.

I was sorting of looking for general do's and don't on designing a God. I didn't really mean how to design someone who was balanced at everything. Sorry for that.