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<blockquote data-quote="NoOneofConsequence" data-source="post: 540284" data-attributes="member: 5400">One possible setting for a Christian d20 could be the first century church. What you'd have is an underground Jewish sect, perscuted by both the Jewish religious leaders and by the Roman secular government (in certain places). Characters could be converts struggling to find sanctuary in which to worship, spreading their gospel when possible, going on missions to escort apostles safely into or out of cities, searching for the truth of miraculous events. I think it would make an interesting campaign.There could be holy, divine magic (miracles); unholy divine magic (pagan Rome or possibly the Qabala); there could be a complete question mark over arcane magic - remembering that the &quot;three kings&quot; or &quot;three wise men&quot; who attended Jesus after his birth were actually astrologers/wizards - or it could be a part of the occult, and therefore exclusively evil.I think that it would have to be a low magic setting, with adepts making up the main of the magic using classes. Wizards and sorcerers would be extremely rare.Roman characters would probably quite pragmatic. Of course, to be true to the mythos, Christian divine magic would have to have a pretty serious edge over all other magic - even if only being immune to dispel magic or some such - because the power of the God of Israel, Yahweh, exceeds that of all other forces, including Satan, who is a fallen angel.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="NoOneofConsequence, post: 540284, member: 5400"] One possible setting for a Christian d20 could be the first century church. What you'd have is an underground Jewish sect, perscuted by both the Jewish religious leaders and by the Roman secular government (in certain places). Characters could be converts struggling to find sanctuary in which to worship, spreading their gospel when possible, going on missions to escort apostles safely into or out of cities, searching for the truth of miraculous events. I think it would make an interesting campaign. There could be holy, divine magic (miracles); unholy divine magic (pagan Rome or possibly the Qabala); there could be a complete question mark over arcane magic - remembering that the "three kings" or "three wise men" who attended Jesus after his birth were actually astrologers/wizards - or it could be a part of the occult, and therefore exclusively evil. I think that it would have to be a low magic setting, with adepts making up the main of the magic using classes. Wizards and sorcerers would be extremely rare. Roman characters would probably quite pragmatic. Of course, to be true to the mythos, Christian divine magic would have to have a pretty serious edge over all other magic - even if only being immune to dispel magic or some such - because the power of the God of Israel, Yahweh, exceeds that of all other forces, including Satan, who is a fallen angel. [/QUOTE]

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