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<blockquote data-quote="Imperialus" data-source="post: 110745" data-attributes="member: 893"><p>There are ways around that... The assasin could just bundle the body into a portable hole and take it back to either be used as a trophy or thrown into another dimention. Plus you have to ask yourself, even in a theocracy how many clerics will be capable of casting a 9th level spell? I'm assumeing only members of the inner circle and they would be the ones assasinated.</p><p></p><p>As for Elders argument I think you may be underestimateing the powers that prophets hold over a religious society. I mean no one can argue that the Vatican is or ever was anything but highly organized, still however they were unable to control the disorganized mess that was the crusades. It does of course depend on the nature of the religion, if pesant prophets are non exsistant for example then that solve a lot of problems, but I'm baseing my assumtions off of a Judeo Christian religion where the entire foundation of the faith rests on the actions of a pesant prophet. Also with Pearl Harbor it was very difficult for your average American farmboy to get up and walk to Japan with a couple of buddies to wage war with their farming tools. They had to do things the goverenments way just to get there. If these two nations are boardering each other it would be much easier for mobs to cross from one border to the next.</p><p></p><p>Of course it also depends on the overall ignorance of the society, how much the pesants are kept in the dark as to what is really going on and the organizational structure of the church itself. It would be very easy for the war to go either way and it will ultimately boil down to DM bias, but that's how I'd run such a plot in my campaign.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Imperialus, post: 110745, member: 893"] There are ways around that... The assasin could just bundle the body into a portable hole and take it back to either be used as a trophy or thrown into another dimention. Plus you have to ask yourself, even in a theocracy how many clerics will be capable of casting a 9th level spell? I'm assumeing only members of the inner circle and they would be the ones assasinated. As for Elders argument I think you may be underestimateing the powers that prophets hold over a religious society. I mean no one can argue that the Vatican is or ever was anything but highly organized, still however they were unable to control the disorganized mess that was the crusades. It does of course depend on the nature of the religion, if pesant prophets are non exsistant for example then that solve a lot of problems, but I'm baseing my assumtions off of a Judeo Christian religion where the entire foundation of the faith rests on the actions of a pesant prophet. Also with Pearl Harbor it was very difficult for your average American farmboy to get up and walk to Japan with a couple of buddies to wage war with their farming tools. They had to do things the goverenments way just to get there. If these two nations are boardering each other it would be much easier for mobs to cross from one border to the next. Of course it also depends on the overall ignorance of the society, how much the pesants are kept in the dark as to what is really going on and the organizational structure of the church itself. It would be very easy for the war to go either way and it will ultimately boil down to DM bias, but that's how I'd run such a plot in my campaign. [/QUOTE]
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