From: Roderick Robertson, SC1-5, x52936 (ROBERTSON@delphi.intel.com)
Date: Thu 27 Jan 1994 - 01:52:00 EET
Mark S. Wrote:
>Rob wrote
>>But I do agree that it is good to separate the Ceremony skills by cult. If one
>>wants to complicate things, one might consider something along the lines
>>of the language rules. Some cults have closely related ceremonies, such as
>>Irripi Ontor and 7 Mothers, so the skill transferes, but at a reduced rate.
>
> I'm not so sure about this. I think the Godlearner's
>depredations showed that cults practices aren't as
>hetergeneous as one might at first presume. Hasn't Greg
>Stafford implied that there isn't as clearcut a difference
>between sorcery, spirit, and divine magic as the rules make
>out? If these very seperate traditions are, in some sense,
>alike then having Ceremony transfer between cults seems a lot
>less odd.
While I don't have a copy of the rules (sniff), Here's an idea. how
about something along the lines of Ceremony <Pantheon>. I'm sure that
Ernalda Worship varies tremendously between the various cultures: Here
she is represented as dutiful wife of the Sun, There she is the Wife of
Darkness, elsewhere she is married to Storm. So while Ceremony <Ernalda>
might change between husband-protector cultures, it would come to
resemble the cultural 'Mean Cult Worship'. So Orlanthi Lightbringer
cults all have similar worship ceremonies; Solar worship all has things
in common (though there are vast differences between Yelmic Dara Happa
and Kargzantic Pent (see Glorious Rebirth)), Trollish Darkness worship
is roughly similar acropss the continent, etc. I think this is one area
that can tie the various cults of an area together. If you want further
differences, make the cults within a pantheon all related skills (like
languages).
I've got a visitor in my office, more later.
Roderick Robertson
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