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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DrunkonDuty" data-source="post: 3743461" data-attributes="member: 54364">You do keep posting threads I like. Although I realise I'm answering them in reverse order. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f615.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":confused:" title="Confused    :confused:"  data-smilie="5"data-shortname=":confused:" /> Anyhoo: churches.As I mentioned in response to your thread 'thicker than blood' I'm running a campaign with good, law-abiding Stunties with close ties to the community. And of course this means churches. 2 of the PC's are in fact clerics. I've gone so far as to write up a calendar of religious holidays (Gods' days and Saints' days) and have described the public rituals that occur on the God's days. And indeed the rituals are very public, designed to involve the community as a whole with parades and ordinary folk playing important roles in the ceremony. CHurch is one of the things that binds the community. There is a fly in the ointment. The Church of Abbathor. Offically banned it is nevertheless alive in the kingdom. My main villain is the chief priestess of this god. ALthough after she escapes her current incarceration she is going to be soooooo mad that she is going to go further than Abbathor ever did and side with the Dwarves' enemies. Not sure how this should effect her standing as a cleric. Technically Abbathor is still part of the official Dwarven pantheon. Only his worship is banned. My next campaign, (mentioned it in your thieves guild thread) is already in the planning and is going to take a much less benign view of the Church. Basically I'm setting it in a fantasy Hapsburg German Empire with a monotheistic faith. Monotheism but split along confessional lines (Pelorines vs Pholtics) a la Protestants & Catholics during the Reformation. In this campaign the Church (which church depends where you are in the Empire) does indeed defend the moral fibre of the community. ANd they use the timed honoured methods of imprisonment, threat, exile and torture. Burning is only for witches (ie: arcane casters of any type. And druids. And probably rangers.)Churches are great. A quick perusal of history and you get so many ways in which a church can be run in a game. From the petty Papal empire of the Borgias in Rennaissance Italy to the real empire of Islam. Splits. Heretics. Secret cults within the church. Persecuted martyrs. Persecuting martyrs. Crusades and jihads. Reformation and Counter reformation. Yeah baby! Bring it on!!</blockquote>

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