Upgrade your account to a Community Supporter account and remove most of the site ads.

Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="doghead" data-source="post: 1645379" data-attributes="member: 8243">Et tu Nacus! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /> Actually, I would have done the same. Too much of a good thing and all that ...I was poking around the wizards sight and I ran across <a href="http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/ebds/20040705a" target="_blank">this piece on religion</a> in the Eberron section. It got me thinking.A monotheistic setting.In the center of every town is the church. Immutable. Unshakable. Enduring. It is a beacon of hope in a dark world. It is a rock of stability in a world of shifting alliences, flowing boarders, fickle governance. It protects the weak. It legitimises the mighty. The message is simple. Be to others as you would have them be to you. But on top of that foundation is layered a grand sprawing edifice of commentry. The Holy Book. An edifice that has over time been used to justify just about every vice know to man.  This is the church. An institution created to revere a perfect creator by the most everso imperfect of its creations. Greed. Ambition. Pride. Vanity. Cruelty. They can all be found in the hearts of the servants of god. If one were only able to look.You can't see god. You can't pop into his plane and have a chat. Or attempt to duff him up. You can't know god. So who (to steal a line from Ken) do you commune with? This question is, and has been a source of debate since the beginnings of the church. But the most common belief is that, as god is everything, whatever the mechanism, you commune with god, ultimately.Consider this lifted as well.If we go with this, then I was thinking that the church would be the central figure in our group. Each character would have some tie to it. Perhaps as a cleric. Perhaps as a member of the Church Militant - the martial orders of the church, a paladin, but not necessarily. Perhaps as a scholar, as a or monk. But perhaps it is a begrudged obligation - a debt owed. Or service freely given by a lay member out of faith and piety. Or perhaps it is a means to an end - power, knowledge, revenge. Take you pick.The actual role of the church in the different games will vary. Sometimes it may be your patron. Other times it may just be a way to have you in a certain place at a certain time. Being connected to the church will bring with it certain obligations and constraints. But also some support and authority.OK. Let me know what you think. Its just an idea, but I'd like to get something decided quickly. So speak now or forever hold your peace. Shall we say by Monday?the head of the dog</blockquote>

Verification