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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TSL" data-source="post: 123063" data-attributes="member: 2528">Skull & BONESPlease, please, PLEASE  it's Skull & BONES.  Skull and Crossbones is an old game by FGU and a present die game from a company whose name escapes me.That said, don't be mad, I'm happy your interested, regardless of what you call it.  <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" /> I'm also happy you understand the difference between "press release" and "top secret".  I'll do my best to stroll the razor.First off, their is a sharp distinction between Vodun, the religion that exists to this day and "Voodoo" the S&B version.  I'd like to think that most will find my version of Voodoo to be a fairly accurate "fantasy" version of real world  beliefs as I designed the Voodoo system for S&B based off real-world practices and a whole hell of a lot of research.  It was a fairly tricky undertaking considering that Skull & Bones' timeline is the somewhat nebulous, "Golden Era of Piracy" roughly 1690 to the 1720s and Vodun wasn't regarded as a "formalized" religion until 1768.  Any look at Vodun today inevitably includes the heavy influence of Catholicism, which has greatly effected the religion.  Every other RPG that I know of with Voodoo (GURPS Voodoo comes surging to mind - which I enjoyed by the way) includes the Catholic influence.  I didn't and extracting it was a b****.  During the Golden Era of Piracy, Catholic priests were not exactly "welcome" in the circles where Voodoo was being practiced. {"Welcome" - You can read that as "got their heads chopped off" or "regarded slaves as less than human".}So what does d20 Voodoo look like?  There is a core class in S&B called Hougans (if female - Mambos) that are the priests of the Loa.  Their faith is split, roughly, into "Old World" and "New World" which dictates the groups of Loa that they deal with regularly.  They have an extremely active interaction with their gods which is the basis of the "Favors" that they are granted.  All power in S&B, regardless of where it comes from, has a price and the assistance of the Loa is no exception.  Now that said, their is another core class, the Bokor, who are effectively the "arcane" spell users of S&B.  They interact with the Loa as well, though on a completely different basis than a faithful hougan and while they occasionally use the trappings of voodoo it is mostly only to further their own, often highly questionable, ends.And then of course, there's a section on role-playing the various Loa, for both GMs and players 'cause sooner or later, you hang out with a hougan/mambo, you will get possessed.  <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" /> Hope that serves as a decent press answer.TSMighty Horse for AdamantFluid Horse for Green Ronin<a href="http://adamant.rpg.net" target="_blank">http://adamant.rpg.net</a></blockquote>

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