Whizbang Dustyboots
Gnometown Hero
This is kind of a weird request: I want a religion that ISN'T for Travellers, space pirates, heroic fighter jockeys or anything wild and crazy.
I'm looking for a religion for everyone else -- the people who want to get up in the morning, go to work, come home, rinse and repeat. It shouldn't be sinister or oppressive (although, like most religions, it could certainly be used by oppressors or to make people feel better about their oppression), but it should give comfort and help the (mostly human, but it should embrace other species, too, to some degree) adherents make sense of life in the Third Imperium.
I don't want to use a contemporary 21st century religion for two reasons: One, I want the setting to feel alien and futuristic, and this is a good way to emphasize that; two, I don't want to ruffle any feathers. (I'll save that for modern horror games, where people know going in to expect cross-waving zealots and the like.)
That said, a space religion that had echoes of Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, Mormonism or even Scientology, would be very fitting, since this should seem believable and be part of the background against which all the wildness happens.
Thanks for your help in advance.
I'm looking for a religion for everyone else -- the people who want to get up in the morning, go to work, come home, rinse and repeat. It shouldn't be sinister or oppressive (although, like most religions, it could certainly be used by oppressors or to make people feel better about their oppression), but it should give comfort and help the (mostly human, but it should embrace other species, too, to some degree) adherents make sense of life in the Third Imperium.
I don't want to use a contemporary 21st century religion for two reasons: One, I want the setting to feel alien and futuristic, and this is a good way to emphasize that; two, I don't want to ruffle any feathers. (I'll save that for modern horror games, where people know going in to expect cross-waving zealots and the like.)
That said, a space religion that had echoes of Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, Mormonism or even Scientology, would be very fitting, since this should seem believable and be part of the background against which all the wildness happens.
Thanks for your help in advance.