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<blockquote data-quote="Maerdwyn" data-source="post: 1594402" data-attributes="member: 835"><p>Piety: a score reflecting how well a character has honored the tenets of his religion. A pious person may receive boons or miracles, an impious person may be cursed.</p><p></p><p>Once per game session, the character with a positive piety score can ask for a boon from his god. Samples include: increasing hit points or healing damage, smiting evil, improving saving throws, improving skill checks, or receiving the benefit of a divination spell. </p><p> </p><p>Characters with negative piety may become the victims of a <em>bestow curse, </em>or worse. </p><p> </p><p>All characters begin play with a piety of 0. There is no lower limit to piety, but the maximum upper limit is the character's wisdom score +1.</p><p> </p><p>Characters gain and lose piety based on their actions. As the characters in this party are all Israelites, I'm only going to list actions pertaining to them. These lists are not nearly exhaustive.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Sample Major Sins (-5 piety or greater)</strong></p><p>Premeditated Murder</p><p>Sacrificing a human</p><p>Using arcane magic (actually, this is -1/spell level)</p><p>Having positive contact with a devil or foreign god</p><p>Raising, Animating, or consorting with the dead</p><p>Publicly worshipping a false or foreign god</p><p> </p><p><strong>Sample Sins (-2 to -4)</strong></p><p>Rape</p><p>Swearing a false oath</p><p>Dishonoringand/or striking one's parents</p><p>Causing another to sin to stumble</p><p>Privately worshipping a foreign god</p><p>Teaching children falsely</p><p>Theft</p><p>Cheating and employee of wages</p><p>Breaking the Sabbath</p><p>Knowingly drinking blood or eating part of a live animal</p><p>Adultery</p><p>Kidnapping</p><p>carving a graven image to be worshipped</p><p>Marrying a Gentile</p><p> </p><p><strong>Sample Minor Sins (-1)</strong></p><p>Inhospitality</p><p>Failing to instruct your son in the Lord's laws</p><p>Failong to teach your how to earn a living</p><p>Knowingly eating unclean animals</p><p>Tattooing self/being willingly tattooed</p><p>Vandalism</p><p>Insulting a priest or prophet</p><p>Weilding a weapon on consecrated ground</p><p>Trimming one's beard at the corners</p><p>To give charity to an extent that your family suffers</p><p>Transvestism</p><p> </p><p><strong>Sample Blessings (Positive changes to piety)</strong></p><p> </p><p>General Religious Observance </p><p>Minimal: Observes major holidays, endeavors to follow commandments in public</p><p>Common: Observes most holidays, follows major commandments in public and private, sets aside time each year for religious study</p><p>Uncommon: Observes all holidays, follows all major, and most minor commandments, even in private, and sets aside time each month for religious study</p><p>Diligent: As uncommon, but with even more effort to follow all commandments, and setting aside time for study eah week.</p><p> </p><p>Marying another Israelite</p><p>Having a child</p><p>Tsedekah (Giving charity)</p><p>Visiting the sick or bereaved</p><p>Helping prepare a body for a funeral</p><p>Helping bury a body</p><p>Sitting with a body overnight</p><p>Protecting innocent life at a cost to self</p><p>Publicly rebuking a sinner at cost to self</p><p>Relieving a neighbor's burden</p><p>Destroying idols</p><p>Sacrificing to the Lord</p><p> </p><p>Temptations:</p><p>By Sacrificing 1 point of piety, a chracter may gain a 1 time +4 to any one in-game roll (not during character genreation or levelling up, for example).</p><p> </p><p>By taking a -2 penalty to Piety, a chracter may attempt to give another the Evil Eye (-2 to all saves for a day or more, or until a remove curse)</p><p> </p><p>By taking a -4 penalty to piety, a character may curse in the manner of the Egyptians by fashioning a wax figure of the victim and burning it. This figure is called an <em>isefet,</em> and it's victim suffers a -2 on all saves and hit rolls until a remove curse is applied.</p><p> </p><p>Ghostknight - what do you think the obligations of Israelites at this time (pre-Temple, also before much interaction with Canaan) would have been to non Jews, in terms of charity and other commandments, for example? The party may be spending a lot of time away from home. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Maerdwyn, post: 1594402, member: 835"] Piety: a score reflecting how well a character has honored the tenets of his religion. A pious person may receive boons or miracles, an impious person may be cursed. Once per game session, the character with a positive piety score can ask for a boon from his god. Samples include: increasing hit points or healing damage, smiting evil, improving saving throws, improving skill checks, or receiving the benefit of a divination spell. Characters with negative piety may become the victims of a [i]bestow curse, [/i]or worse. All characters begin play with a piety of 0. There is no lower limit to piety, but the maximum upper limit is the character's wisdom score +1. Characters gain and lose piety based on their actions. As the characters in this party are all Israelites, I'm only going to list actions pertaining to them. These lists are not nearly exhaustive. [b]Sample Major Sins (-5 piety or greater)[/b] Premeditated Murder Sacrificing a human Using arcane magic (actually, this is -1/spell level) Having positive contact with a devil or foreign god Raising, Animating, or consorting with the dead Publicly worshipping a false or foreign god [b]Sample Sins (-2 to -4)[/b] Rape Swearing a false oath Dishonoringand/or striking one's parents Causing another to sin to stumble Privately worshipping a foreign god Teaching children falsely Theft Cheating and employee of wages Breaking the Sabbath Knowingly drinking blood or eating part of a live animal Adultery Kidnapping carving a graven image to be worshipped Marrying a Gentile [b]Sample Minor Sins (-1)[/b] Inhospitality Failing to instruct your son in the Lord's laws Failong to teach your how to earn a living Knowingly eating unclean animals Tattooing self/being willingly tattooed Vandalism Insulting a priest or prophet Weilding a weapon on consecrated ground Trimming one's beard at the corners To give charity to an extent that your family suffers Transvestism [b]Sample Blessings (Positive changes to piety)[/b] General Religious Observance Minimal: Observes major holidays, endeavors to follow commandments in public Common: Observes most holidays, follows major commandments in public and private, sets aside time each year for religious study Uncommon: Observes all holidays, follows all major, and most minor commandments, even in private, and sets aside time each month for religious study Diligent: As uncommon, but with even more effort to follow all commandments, and setting aside time for study eah week. Marying another Israelite Having a child Tsedekah (Giving charity) Visiting the sick or bereaved Helping prepare a body for a funeral Helping bury a body Sitting with a body overnight Protecting innocent life at a cost to self Publicly rebuking a sinner at cost to self Relieving a neighbor's burden Destroying idols Sacrificing to the Lord Temptations: By Sacrificing 1 point of piety, a chracter may gain a 1 time +4 to any one in-game roll (not during character genreation or levelling up, for example). By taking a -2 penalty to Piety, a chracter may attempt to give another the Evil Eye (-2 to all saves for a day or more, or until a remove curse) By taking a -4 penalty to piety, a character may curse in the manner of the Egyptians by fashioning a wax figure of the victim and burning it. This figure is called an [i]isefet,[/i] and it's victim suffers a -2 on all saves and hit rolls until a remove curse is applied. Ghostknight - what do you think the obligations of Israelites at this time (pre-Temple, also before much interaction with Canaan) would have been to non Jews, in terms of charity and other commandments, for example? The party may be spending a lot of time away from home. :) [/QUOTE]
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