Ops — Roman Goddess of Plenty and the Earth
Ops at a Glance
Tradition
Roman
Divine standing
Lesser Deity
Campaign alignment
Neutral Good
Portfolio
Plenty, fertility, stored wealth, resources, grain reserves and material security
Principal cult / festival
Opiconsivia, 25 August; Opalia in December
Sacred places
Capitoline temple, storehouses, granaries and places where communal reserves are kept
Emblems
Cornucopia, grain, seated abundance and covered store
Favoured weapon
Staff
Related Roman powers
Saturn · Ceres · Abundantia
Roman Pantheon · Plenty · Fertility · Stored Wealth · Resources
Ops is a Roman goddess of plenty, fertility and stored resources. Her Capitol temple was associated with public treasure as well as cult, making abundance tangible as something held, measured and protected rather than merely wished for.
Divine Mechanics
Campaign Divine Tier 30 describes Ops’s setting-scale power. The 5.5e rules-facing form is an original epic extension at CR 32 with PB +9.
Ops — 5.5e Rules-Facing Form
Medium Celestial (Deity), Neutral Good
CR 32 (custom epic) · PB +9 · Campaign Divine Tier 30
AC 26 · HP 600 · Speed 40 ft.
| STR | DEX | CON | INT | WIS | CHA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24 (+7) | 22 (+6) | 30 (+10) | 26 (+8) | 30 (+10) | 28 (+9) |
Saving Throws Con +19, Int +17, Wis +19, Cha +18
Skills Insight +17, Nature +17, Perception +17, Religion +15
Damage Resistances poison, radiant; bludgeoning, piercing and slashing from nonmagical attacks
Condition Immunities Charmed, Frightened, Poisoned
Senses Truesight 90 ft. · Languages all; telepathy 90 ft.
Traits
Legendary Resistance (5/Day). If Ops fails a saving throw, she can choose to succeed instead.
Reserve of Plenty. Allies within 30 feet gain 10 Temporary Hit Points at the start of combat.
Stored Against Need. Food and ordinary supplies within 60 feet do not spoil, rot or become infested while Ops remains nearby.
Divine Spellcasting
Ops has access to every spell granted by the deity’s portfolio domains in the edition being used: Abundance · Earth · Plant · Community. Those spells are always prepared or available to the deity.
Actions
Multiattack. Ops makes three Storehouse Staff attacks.
Storehouse Staff. Attack: +19 to hit, reach 10 ft. Hit: 27 (4d8 + 9) bludgeoning plus 18 (4d8) radiant damage.
Open the Stores (Recharge 5–6). Up to six allies within 60 feet regain 27 (6d8) Hit Points and gain Advantage on their next Constitution save; enemies in the area make a DC 27 Constitution save or take 45 (10d8) radiant damage.
Bonus Actions
Measure Out. One ally within 60 feet gains 20 Temporary Hit Points.
Reactions
Nothing Lost. When an ally within 60 feet would consume a mundane ration, potion or other consumable worth 50 gp or less, Ops may prevent that item from being consumed, three times per day.
Legendary Actions
- Move. Move up to half Speed.
- Divine Strike. Make one Storehouse Staff attack.
- Stored Strength (Costs 2). One ally within 60 feet may immediately spend one Hit Die and regain the result plus its Constitution modifier.
Ops — Pathfinder 1e
Campaign divine extension.
Benchmark CR 32 (custom epic). Emphasise food security, stored resources, healing, preservation and communal resilience.
Spell-Like Abilities. At will—create food and water, plant growth, neutralize poison; 3/day—heal, heroes’ feast; 1/day—miracle.
Statistics
CR 32 (custom epic) · AC 50 · hp 820 · Fort +36 · Ref +30 · Will +36
Str 24 · Dex 22 · Con 30 · Int 26 · Wis 30 · Cha 28
Base Atk +32 · CMB +39 · CMD 87
Domain Access
Ops has full access to the deity’s linked portfolio domains in their Pathfinder-facing versions or clearly marked campaign adaptations.
Ops — D&D 3.5e
Lesser Deity; Divine Rank 10; NG Medium Outsider (Extraplanar)
Divine Rank 10 · DR 20/epic · SR 42 · Domain SLA caster level 20.
Salient Divine Abilities. Divine Healing, Gift of Life, Power of Nature and rank-appropriate abundance abilities.
Statistics
Challenge benchmark 38. Ability scores may exceed 30 where the deity’s divine nature requires it; Divine Rank remains the primary measure of cosmic authority.
Domain Access
Ops can use every spell-like ability granted by the deity’s portfolio domains at the caster level determined by Divine Rank.
Ops in Roman Religion
Ops belongs to the old Roman language of plenty and agricultural abundance. Her Capitol temple became materially associated with stored state treasure, an unusually concrete expression of resources held in reserve.
The Opiconsivia on 25 August marked one of her major festival days. Ops overlaps with abundance personifications and agricultural gods without becoming interchangeable with them.
What Is Ops Doing Right Now?
War and poor harvests make stored resources as politically important as armies. Ops is active wherever a community discovers that its emergency reserves exist only on paper.
She favours foresight more than display: a modest granary kept honestly can matter more to her than a ruler’s ceremonial wealth.
Worship in the Campaign Present
Granary keepers, stewards, farmers, treasurers and households maintaining winter stores invoke Ops.
Her priests inspect measures, reserves and promises. They are suspicious of leaders who count the same sack of grain twice in public accounts.
Domains, Spells and Divine Gifts
Ops’s clergy favour Life, Nature, Community and Protection themes. Suitable spells include Create Food and Water, Plant Growth, Aura of Vitality, Heroes’ Feast, Greater Restoration and Heal.
Gift: Reserve Measure
The devotee can accurately estimate how long a visible store of food or water will sustain a known number of creatures.
Gift: Keep Against Winter
Once per long rest, the devotee can preserve one day’s provisions for twenty people from mundane spoilage for a month.
Relics
The Capitol Measure
A bronze measure that reveals when public reserves have been falsified in official accounts.
The Sealed Jar of Ops
Anything wholesome placed within remains fresh until the seal is deliberately broken.
Relationships
Saturn shares archaic agricultural tradition; Ceres governs grain and cultivation; Abundantia personifies visible plenty. Ops is the resource safely held for future need.
Use Ops Tonight
The Treasury Is Grain
A vault opened for coin contains perfectly preserved wheat instead.
The Missing Winter
A town’s stores should be empty after famine, yet one sealed cellar remains full.
The False Measure
Every official grain measure in the city becomes one-tenth too small overnight.
Divine Estate and Regional Effects
Where Ops’s presence is strong, a major sanctuary can project the following effects across roughly six miles. A small shrine normally manifests only one effect in a smaller area. Unless another divine power contests them, the effects fade over 1d10 days after the sanctuary is abandoned or desecrated.
The Storehouse Holds
Properly kept grain, oil and preserved food spoil at half the normal rate within a consecrated community store.
Earth Gives Warning
Exhausted or poisoned soil changes colour before planting, allowing cultivators to identify damaged ground before seed is wasted.
Shared Plenty Multiplies
Communal stores distributed by agreed measure stretch further; private hoards deliberately withheld from the community receive no benefit.
Deep Dive
Continue through the Roman Pantheon, Saturn, Ceres, Abundantia. Follow the cult into Rome and wider Italy, or use the Cleric and Cleric Domains pages for player-facing worship.
Historical Sources and Rules Compatibility
- Temple of Ops — Capitol temple, state treasure and Opiconsivia.
Historical cult material is separated from campaign invention. Mechanics and relics are original game material.
Rules licensing. D&D 5.5e terminology derived from the System Reference Document 5.2.1 is used under CC BY 4.0 where applicable. Pathfinder 1e and D&D 3.5e deity statistics on this page are original campaign conversions rather than official published deity stat blocks.