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Indirik

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Re: Sanguis Astroism
« Topic Start: March 08, 2011, 05:41:24 PM »
But they won't.
They have in SA. We've had several people make rather large contributions to the theology of SA.
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And religions remain fuzzy concepts without even fundamental mythos.
What's wrong with a little bit of fuzz? Trying to nail down everything, and carve it in stone is, I feel, one of the biggest mistakes that people make in religion in BattleMaster. If you define /everything/, and write everything about the faith, all their beliefs, their mythos, their history, etc., then what's left for me to contribute to it? Everything that defines the entire faith is handed to me, and I'm told exactly what my character believes.

From an RL religious perspective, that makes sense. But from a game-player perspective, it's hard to get involved and enthusiastic about something that is entirely the product of someone else's imagination. Why do you think all those well-defined, highly detailed religions are flops?
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And then we wonder why nobody takes religions seriously?
Nobody takes SA seriously? Meh... if you want to think so, then that's fine. The coalition of realms that have signed anti-SA treaties disagrees with you.
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