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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jdeleski" data-source="post: 2527917" data-attributes="member: 33307">Request of DallasHello Dallas,I enjoyed reading through your opening post. It's well written and provided me with vivid images of how your character came to where he is in life, which is exactly what I was hoping for. You and I haven't yet had a chance to discuss your character's history and personality and abilities yet, so Im going to make a couple of comments and ask that you make 2 changes for me. When you and I talk this week about your character, we'll get a chance to iron out all of this so I won't expect a lot of requests for edits afterwards.First, I thought a bit about exorcism, and references to it, in my game and decided that it would be OK. Individuals in my game could easily be seen as being taken over by demons, or evil sorcerers, or even mind-bending mythos creatures, and in such cases they might commonly turn to their church or a priest for assistance, perhaps requiring an exorcism (or something like it).But there is an aspect of this that I must ask you to edit out of your post, specifically your reference to Christ. I am a Christian, and a Catholic, and although I am not personally offended at your post and might find it an interesting exercise to maintain a logical, religiously-correct and spritually-correct campaign, I believe that it would be too taxing on our story and is likely to offend some readers. The question then becomes, how does one roleplay a priest in the 1920's without such references? I believe that as long as you are generic in your descriptions, for example using the term "God" rather than "Christ", I'd be more comfortable. And you'll need to be careful in your other references to the church or to aspects of the church so that noone takes it literally as a reference to their specific real life faith. If you'd like to play a priest, that's really the only way that I can accept it in-game. Otherwise, we'd end up with a campaign that might become a negative lightning-rod for some gamers who might seek to end our game very quickly. I'm sorry to ask this of you, but I can't risk that kind of negativity.Your references to exorcism and to Satan are OK since they do not lead a reader to think towards any particular religion.The other aspect that you'll need to be watchful of is your reference to "the air seems to crackle when ever he prays in Latin". The use of spells in CoC is very costly in terms of Sanity, HP, Con, and/or other character abilities and stats. Literally, every time your character wishes to use a spell, he will irretrievably give up a piece of himself, therefore he is unlikely to use a spell except in the most dire of circumstances. I'm not sure what spell, if any, he was casting, but I inferred from your writing that he was casting something. Additionally, in a CoC game, at least in how I would view it, he would be unlikely to want to draw attention to his abilities since they would be outside of the norm for a priest or human beings in general. If these uses of his abilities drew the attention of his superiors in the church, he might be reprimanded or even kicked out. If these uses of his abilities drew the attention of the public at large, he might be shunned, incarcerated, or even killed.  Initially, when Father Rucker casts a spell in the company of our team members, I'm expecting that they'll roleplay some surprise and shock at his abilities.Those are just my own thoughts about this campaign and the world around it. You and I will get a better chance to discuss these things this week once I review your email in detail and we link up either via phone or IM. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Thanks!Job (the tortured one).</blockquote>

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