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- From: Jim Ogle (Ks. Jim) <jogle@aoc.nrao.edu>
- Subject: Re: priests of pantheons
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- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 21:46:48 GMT
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- The manatee writes:
-
- [specialization and/or narrowing of skills]
-
- > Now, bringing this all back to the religeon thing, I'd say in
- > the Aysle pantheon a field might mean Honor, Corruption,
- > and Balance. The trademark might be one of the Gods. There
- > are also miracles used by all (general type miracles) and
- > they would be another field. Thus a priest of Dunad would
- > have trademark specialization in Dunad miracles getting
- > a +3 bonus, primary field of honor getting a +1 (the +3
- > earlier included this +1) and a secondary field of the
- > general miracles getting a -1. The total cos of this is 3
- > poss.
- >
- > Or you might just have the character trademark specialize
- > in Dunad giving a +2 to casting Dunad miracles with no
- > other bonuses or penalties. The cost would then be 2 poss.
-
- I guess with this approach you could group the Nile gods into Good or
- Evil and do it that way, but most of the miracles are not very diety-
- specific so it would be difficult to figure out what bonuses got used
- with which miracles.
-
- > I can forsee some problems with this though. With normal
- > trademark specialization the character losses the plusses
- > if he loses the item, and that isn't too likely with a God.
- > I dunno, maybe make the TS worth only +1. But I guess that's
- > what this infiniverse thing is for.
-
- If you wanted to be mean, whenever the priest loses his Focus due to
- failing a miracle he could lose the plusses, same as losing a
- specialized tool. That could make specialization in dieties very
- expensive though and you probably wouldn't see it very much (certainly
- not among ord priests).
-
- > On another previous note there was discussion about how
- > to resolve faith(athiesm). I once was playing a character
- > with faith(athieism) and someone else joined the party who
- > was playing a priest. I made some general comments about
- > how in order to be fair I should try to disbelieve *every*
- > miracle arround me (not overlooking the ones beneficial to
- > me) and pretty much all of the other players and the gm
- > criticized me for it and browbeated me into submission.
- > Chalk one up for good roleplaying 8(.
-
- Tell 'em they'll all go to that special corner of Hell for people who
- throw role-playing out the window when it isn't convenient for the
- group/their character.... 8-)
-
- > I'm sorry this post was so long
-
- No prob - its been a slow day. I like long posts!
-
-
- Kansas Jim (jogle@aoc.nrao.edu)
-