What is the Hivemind?

[Jdvn1]

I didn't say I didn't like religion.

No, I know.

It just amused be because it reminds me of this one character a friend of mine played who was an atheist. The GM told everyone, "The gods are a big part of the storyline. I recommend you follow one god above the rest." And this one guy wanted to go against the grain, so his character didn't believe in any of the gods. So it gets into really high levels and the players end up meeting the gods, and each character is introduced to his deity and is given a thematic item. So they get around to that one guy.
"So who is it you follow?"
"Oh, I'm an atheist."
"... Um..." *looks around at the other gods* "So you don't believe in us."
"Nope."
"... You don't believe we exist?"
"That's right."
"... Yeah. Well, here's your item. It's... ah... some magic berries. And a st-- magic stick."

 

[Crothian]

We had an atheist in a party once, but the Paladin and Cleric decided that such belief went against the te4aching of their god (and they wern't wrong) so they buffed themslelves up and proclaimed him to be an enemy and killed him. It was funny, they treated it like the whool had come off their eyes and they were seeing the devil for the first time.

 

[Jdvn1]

We had an atheist in a party once, but the Paladin and Cleric decided that such belief went against the te4aching of their god (and they wern't wrong) so they buffed themslelves up and proclaimed him to be an enemy and killed him. It was funny, they treated it like the whool had come off their eyes and they were seeing the devil for the first time.

Wow, it sounds like an atheist is as bad as a follow of an opposed deity.

 

[Crothian]

Wow, it sounds like an atheist is as bad as a follow of an opposed deity.

Worse. Gods get their power from worshipers. The Atheists doesn't whorship anyone and spreads their ideas of non whorship and that effects the power base of all gods. IMC people whorship the pantheon and give tribute to different gods at differnet times. It is very greek in that way.

 

[Jdvn1]

Worse. Gods get their power from worshipers. The Atheists doesn't whorship anyone and spreads their ideas of non whorship and that effects the power base of all gods. IMC people whorship the pantheon and give tribute to different gods at differnet times. It is very greek in that way.

Oh, hm. That makes much more sense, then.

 

[Crothian]

the bases setting I usually use it a bit different from the more traditional ones

 

[Darth K'Trava]

No, I know.

It just amused be because it reminds me of this one character a friend of mine played who was an atheist. The GM told everyone, "The gods are a big part of the storyline. I recommend you follow one god above the rest." And this one guy wanted to go against the grain, so his character didn't believe in any of the gods. So it gets into really high levels and the players end up meeting the gods, and each character is introduced to his deity and is given a thematic item. So they get around to that one guy.
"So who is it you follow?"
"Oh, I'm an atheist."
"... Um..." *looks around at the other gods* "So you don't believe in us."
"Nope."
"... You don't believe we exist?"
"That's right."
"... Yeah. Well, here's your item. It's... ah... some magic berries. And a st-- magic stick."

*laffs*

We had our epic party meeting their gods one time..... right after a nice, long bloody battle. And my cleric having just killed a friend to get rid of the demon who'd possessed him. And being told she'd done a "good job in removing this big evil from Faerun" while standing there, badly hurt and bleeding all over the place....

We'd never had an athiestic character in our games. So far, I have a wizard who hasn't picked a deity to "follow" yet. But then that homebrew isn't as stringent on that as the FR world.

 

[Darth K'Trava]

We had an atheist in a party once, but the Paladin and Cleric decided that such belief went against the te4aching of their god (and they wern't wrong) so they buffed themslelves up and proclaimed him to be an enemy and killed him. It was funny, they treated it like the whool had come off their eyes and they were seeing the devil for the first time.

We've never had that. Just a bit of idealogical "differences" when my ranger of Ehlonna picked on how a cleric of Pelor in our party worshiped his god (by going out and sunbathing to the point of sunburn). And the near time when a fighter in a different group went from CG to CN and teetered on the borderline of evil. If he'd slipped over that mark, my cleric of Torm would've had to, as much as it would've hurt her emotionally as the two had travelled for awhile before the start of the game, fight him to the death as she'd have to follow her duty to remove evil from the prime material. She did kill him but not for that reason; it was for the greater good as he'd gotten possessed by a demon and charged the party.

 

[Terath Ninir]

You had to become a cyberzombie somehow, right?

Well, that would work, I suppose. Sounds awfully painful, though.

 

[Terath Ninir]

Well if you were, I'd gobble you right up. I love the taste of liver. Yum!

Ugh. And people say *I* am warped.