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Action Idea 19

In this world every single god is real and takes place in god games. Each god starts their own guild, where they can recruit anyone they wish into it, but only 5 members are allowed to play in each god game. There are rules to recruiting, each god can recruit their first 5 back to back, but after that they must wait 3 months before they can recruit another member. The god games are tournaments, each one is different, the battlefields always change. For example, one could be an active volcano while the next round could be a floating island. 
Now about the members of each god's guild. This world uses video game based logic, but every person is level 0, they don't level up till a god recruits them. Some people can be born with skills, but everyone gets a basic skill when they get recruited by a god. Almost always a passive skill. Attack skills and spells can be learned by levelling up, learning from other sources, or training with a skill or weapon. The skill you get when you're recruited is usually based on the god that recruits you. For example, someone recruited by poseidon could gain breathing under water or deals extra damage against water element monsters. 
When the games aren't going on, members can go fight monsters and dungeon exploration. Each dungeon has a boss at the end and some powerful item. Dungeon items have their own magic, but not all are for battles, such a torch that never goes out or a map that can locate the exit to any dungeon. Dungeons also are random and can disappear and pop up anywhere at any time. If a person is inside a dungeon when it disappears, they teleport outside of it.
The god games do more than just entertain the bored gods as well, for example when one god wins a game, they can take another god's member, and they join that god's guild, or they can take other things if they don't want a member such as dungeon loot or even a godly gift. Though a few don't do god games, some just do dungeon looting and sell it as merchants, such as the Hermes guild, or craftsman such as the Ptah guild. 
Godly gifts can only be won in god games. A godly gift is a skill from another god, and when a god wins against another god they can choose one of their own guild members to receive a god gift from the losing god. The gifts could be anything from a passive skill, to an attack skill, or even a new spell. A member of a god's guild can also earn a god gift from their own god by completing special tasks, reaching certain levels, or making great achievements. 
Now the tournament style is the main game, but gods can challenge other games with different amounts of team members and rewards. For example, they could do a capture the flag with 8 members, or a larger tournament with 16 members each and 3 rewards. It all depends on what the god of each guild chooses. 
Gods also aren't allowed to enter in god games or fight at all. If they are caught cheating, boosting a mortal in anyway that is against the rules, or anything else that gives an unfair advantage, their guild is disbanded and they must wait a hundred year penalty before starting up again. 
There would also be races other than humans, and some races would naturally have skills that their races are born with. Maybe one or two god guilds only employ specific races as well. I was also thinking maybe every few levels they get a skill based on what they did to level up. Like if they only farmed and attacked fire monsters maybe they get a fire resistance skill, and so on. Maybe every 5 levels they get a new skill. I still haven't figured out how I'll have magic work in this, if either you have to be born with it, or anyone can go out and get it. Maybe magic will have to be earned, and people who naturally have high magic stats can learn it easier from some source while someone who has low magic stats will have to win it from a dungeon boss or a god gift. 
There are god guilds all over the world, but each god can teleport their members to the great city for god games. Gods usually live in the city, but some choose to live in their guild halls as well. Based on how well they do determines how well their guild set up is. For example, one god that wins lots of games could have a full mansion with a garden, maybe the entire town is centered around the guild hall as well, but a god who loses a lot could have a smaller building. 
Gods can't always be around in their guild halls or watching over their guild at all times, so each god also chooses a captain of the guild, who acts as the one in charge when they aren't around. The captains are also usually the guilds strongest member, the god's favorite member, or sometimes just the first person they recruited. 
Some gods are also banned from god games. There are many reasons one can be banned, from cheating too much to the skills they naturally grant being too powerful. For example, Chaos is banned from starting a guild for the soul reason the skills they naturally grant can erase life instantly. Most banned gods stay in their domain and watch the god games from it, though some still choose to walk around the mortal world.