From: Robert McArthur (mcarthur@fit.qut.edu.au)
Date: Sat 28 May 1994 - 00:44:22 EEST
Well, not quite a plurality...
Having played dragon pass extensively I keep being reminded, in runequest, of the comment in DP that none of the peices on the board represent single entites - "not even Cragspider". I'll assume this dosen't apply to dragons:-)
In the roleplaying world of runequest, our characters found that as they
progressed to rune level (they never got further :-( ) they were more and more
worried about going around in as a group of rune levels of dispirate religions.
Now, this didn't mean a Cacodaemon priest and Storm Bull lord, but we had
Stormbull, Orlanth, Daka Fal, someone a bit like Urg! (sp?) and some others.
Not too bad really. We often played that the higher 'level' a person got
moving towards herodom the harder they were to be with and the fewer people
they had around them. Thinking over the DP writing, it seems that all powerful
individuals have a group of close 'colleagues' to assist them. For
lightbringers it's the ring; darkness cults would have something as would sun
cults, elves, dwarves and even chaos cults. Some cults may invest their
worshippers with extraordinary power to make up much of the balance as they
often are expected to be 'alone'. Again, the melding of the cults together
such as in the lightbringers ring would provide much more strength through
different gods coming together and the use of different powers.
All this indicates, to players of Runequest, that they can continue to be
together as they advance in their relgions. It is not uncommon to have a
Comments?
Robert McArthur
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