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Post by joecrak on May 1, 2018 4:33:27 GMT -8
Listening at work, like always, and a few thoughts. Please gina please please please find a way to get a game of World Wide Wrestling RPG in honor of GLOW season 2! Stu Venable a question about Blood, Blade, and Tusk. What role do non Christian faiths have in the setting? Are they treated as poorly as they were in actual history? Cause that's something I would be wary about.
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fredrix
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Post by fredrix on May 1, 2018 4:54:41 GMT -8
Indeed there are Christian faiths that were poorly treated at this time. Also there is very interesting Spanish game called Aquelarre, which does (I think) a very good representation of Christian, Muslim and Jewish faiths (and devil worshipers). It also has a funky mechanic wherein the more you believe in magick, the more volunarable to magick you are. It’s being translated at the moment, and it was a Stuart Weick project so inevitably has been delayed. But it’s coming soon, and I was going to recommend that Stu Venable gets hold of a copy.
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willh
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Post by willh on May 1, 2018 6:22:41 GMT -8
In polytheistic religions you don't pick a god and worship them to the exclusion of others. Gods are like kitchen appliances. You use the one you need. When you need to make coffee you go to the coffee maker, and when you need to make toast you go to the toaster. If you want to do well in battle you pray to the war god, and if you want to get pregnant you pray to the fertility god.
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Post by chronovore on May 1, 2018 17:16:19 GMT -8
I'm trying to suss out how to include SHOUTING AT FOREIGNERS (MH) into my game.
On the topic of language, KARTAS has done a couple great podcasts about language-in-RPGs, but I think my favorite was the one which brought up Alignment Languages. Apparently one version of D&D has languages specific to each Alignment? So your different-race Chaotic Evil baddies might not be able to speak in their racial languages, but they can drop into Chaotic Evil language and converse readily…
…and "racial language" is a whole 'nother can of worms.
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Post by chronovore on May 1, 2018 17:19:51 GMT -8
OH, OH, OH, and you guys have to get "Jane Autism" into a game somehow. Pairing the social mandates of the landed gentry and the… oh, no, no wait; there is no way that could end well.
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20pints
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Post by 20pints on May 1, 2018 18:49:09 GMT -8
With fantasy clerics and faith I’ve always felt the best “crisis of faith” occur when the dice turn against you. What better tangible example of the fickleness of divine powers when one minute all cannot fail and then next stork touches your dice...
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Post by Deleted on May 1, 2018 23:21:12 GMT -8
What's discworld? WHAT'S DISCWORLD? Oh so, so sad that that needed to be asked.
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battlematt
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Post by battlematt on May 2, 2018 2:16:33 GMT -8
An alternative subtitle for this episode could have been "Stork and the 700 bookmarks of Ventuzler".
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Post by mrcj on May 3, 2018 12:42:02 GMT -8
In polytheistic religions you don't pick a god and worship them to the exclusion of others. Gods are like kitchen appliances. You use the one you need. When you need to make coffee you go to the coffee maker, and when you need to make toast you go to the toaster. If you want to do well in battle you pray to the war god, and if you want to get pregnant you pray to the fertility god. I can't remember if we discussed it before but I find it interesting that in many games there is a mono-theistic overlay on a polytheistic culture. In Rome and Greece Egypt and other cultures that had pantheons willh is absolutely correct. In world building aside from the language discussion that was had, the idea of festivals, holy days, and various rites for different things are another area to explore. In the city of Rome, at its highest power, the festivals and special days were constant...every few weeks; many dictated by religion or had a political/religious bend to them. Wikipedia has kind of a over the top Roman Festivalslist
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Post by ayslyn on Jun 1, 2018 13:18:07 GMT -8
Slowly I catch up....
On red herrings and not wasting people's time.... I find that when I am using them, that giving people leads through them helps alleviate that issue.
In a game I was running, I wanted to emulate the Law & Order procedural feel, and decided that the third lead the players latched onto would be the answer to the mystery. But I made sure that the first two weren't completely useless as each gave the players something to think about and helped form new theories for they to follow.
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