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Where can I find good information on Priests/devine magic/religions/gods... in a word "cleric". I already know about the bit in Thieves World, but has anybody...
Richard
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May 3, 2003
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911
In our DQ group, one of us tried a cleric system for a few campaigns. We decided it was interesting but not very useful, as clerics became just a new class of...
Gregg, Joseph
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May 3, 2003
5:56 pm
912
I made a Priest skill a while back. Its found at http://www.geocities.com/mean_liar/dq.htm Essentially it enhances appropriate things: Wisdom enhances...
King Rat
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May 3, 2003
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On Sat, 03 May 2003 16:54:30 -0000, "Richard" <demon_star2002@...> ... It depends a lot on what role you want "clerics" to have in your game world. It...
Bruce Probst
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May 4, 2003
6:13 am
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... the ... help. I must first of all state my agreement with Bruce Probst. I have a system, of sorts, which can be found here:- ...
dbarrass_2000
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May 5, 2003
5:21 pm
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Here's what little I've come up with so far- That there should be something along the lines of a "Piety" characteristic (used both in Hero Wars and Stalking...
Richard
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May 5, 2003
6:20 pm
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Richard-- I have made an unsuccessful Hail-Mary experiment with a priest class, and would like to see what else you have. Your ideas sound (potentially) more...
Loki Freyr
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May 5, 2003
9:24 pm
917
I think it's shame leave religion, or at least gods, out of a fantasy setting. If nothing else it should be included, at least, in an abstract sense, which...
Richard
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May 5, 2003
10:40 pm
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... For those unfamilar with the bit in Thieves World here it is: Thieves' World : Personalities of Sanctuary, 1981, p.25 by Eric Goldberg Believed Missing In...
John_Rauchert
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May 5, 2003
11:05 pm
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I actually found your Priest skill somewhere online a long time ago and didn't know who produced it. Very interesting stuff- I was actually considering sort of...
Richard
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May 5, 2003
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920
... game world. ... monotheistic ... for a ... be ... worship one ... That's pretty much the way I plan on handling it. Some areas believe their god to be the...
Richard
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May 6, 2003
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... Know about it, but obviously had forgotten much of it! Thanks for posting this, it'll help a lot. Later, R....
Richard
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May 6, 2003
12:44 am
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... Other sources of inspiration: http://www.pantheon.org Encyclopedia Mythica a great source of myth and legend The Primal Order from the pre-TSR, pre-Hasbro...
John_Rauchert
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May 6, 2003
2:49 am
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I hate to jump in so late on the debate... I was thinkning of integrating Priests in my campaign. But i was going to take a slightly different approach....
jcorey30
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May 7, 2003
9:45 pm
924
And speaking of jumping in late, I thought I might as well join in as well. I've used priests (or, rather, "religious characters") every now and then in my...
Ben Davis
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May 7, 2003
10:13 pm
925
... I'll definitely look into these. And I do mean "look"- while I like SJG stuff and I think GURPS books are, if nothing else, great sources of backround,...
Richard
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May 8, 2003
9:31 pm
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... Forgot to ask... what is this? Never heard of it before....
Richard
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May 8, 2003
9:35 pm
927
Hi all, As an aside from the religous discussion we are having I have another question. What does land cost in your worlds in terms of purchasing outright,...
CJC Work
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May 8, 2003
9:44 pm
928
My thinking is that a Priest skill would cover more of the day-to-day activities of the job- the psychiatric, clerical (no pun!), and otherwise organizational...
Richard
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May 8, 2003
9:52 pm
929
I was trying to work something like this into my old Priest class- nothing necessarily like a specific spell effect, maybe just whatever the GM felt was...
Richard
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May 8, 2003
9:57 pm
930
In my campaign, you can't 'buy' land. The rulers of the land own all the land. They may grant you the use of the land for as long as they wish and charge you...
Jason Winter
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May 8, 2003
11:05 pm
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... That's essentially correct. Feudal systems were premised on the king (or whatever title the monarch goes by) owning all of the land, and granting "fiefs"...
D. Cameron King
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May 8, 2003
11:43 pm
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Hey Richard, Actually, a good spot for this might be the DQ-rules group. It is a great place to get collective on stuff. I am one of the moderators, so if...
John Corey
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May 9, 2003
2:36 am
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On Thu, 08 May 2003 16:43:39 -0700, "D. Cameron King" ... This is all correct, so far as I'm aware, just a slight point to note: the DQ rules actually presume...
Bruce Probst
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May 9, 2003
8:19 am
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Done and done! I'll start combing over the old posts to see if there's anything worth swiping right now! :D Thanks for the heads up, I appreciate it. Later, R....
Richard
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May 9, 2003
5:42 pm
935
Yesterday I created a group to dump ideas into about the priest thing. If anyone is interested you can find it here: ...
Richard
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May 9, 2003
6:16 pm
936
I ran across this just this morning and thought you all would get a kick out of it. From "a letter from Gigi" in the Dec/Jan '80 issue of Different Worlds: ...
Richard
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May 13, 2003
5:59 pm
937
Where the hell did everybody go all of a sudden?...
Richard
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May 14, 2003
3:59 pm
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Apparently we are all discussing priests on the cathedral list. Marty ... -- "If you haven't got your health, at least you have something to talk about." "They...
Martin Gallo
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May 14, 2003
8:37 pm
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actually Richard, this is why I recommended having this discussion at dq-rules, rather than in your own group. We get few posts at the best of times. and we...
John Corey
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May 14, 2003
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