From: Colin Watson (watson@computing-science.aberdeen.ac.uk)
Date: Wed 15 Jun 1994 - 17:52:45 EEST
Alex (replying to Devin):
>All that we actually
>know to be required to get Axe Trance is that one be a Babs Initiate (or a
>suitable initiate), and that the local temple go for the idea. That She's
>sitting around in the GP personally vetting each application in detail is
>just One Man's Opinion.
Yes, but I think it's worthwhile for a GM to have a definite opinion on this, one way or the other. Ok, the characters might not have a clue; but for the sake of consistency it would help if the GM decided. Obviously a world where the Gods have direct control over who gets to worship them would be *very* different from one where the Gods are bound against such intervention.
In Devin's world the Gods get to judge the "worthiness" of all requests made of them. That's fine. It makes for a consistent setting; and I'm not surprised if worshippers in that world are extremely devout.
I would take the opposite view. I think the fact that the GodLearners managed to manipulate religions so successfully (up to a point) is evidence in favour of this. (But I'm willing to be persuaded otherwise.) Did the gods *want* to be exploited?
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CW.
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