Re: Athiests in Fantasy Settings ( Was: some help please (druid))

In article <ericp06-782FF7.08065109022007@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Eric P. <ericp06@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

>I'd say that the im****tance of relation****ps between deities and people, 
>in a game setting context, is not so much what maintaining the 
>relation****p can do for their spiritual and/or emotional well-being as 
>what access to divine power (read "cleric spells") the relation****p 
>provides. Otherwise, it's just a bit of sociocultural flavor.

We had a space-opera setting where the religions were similar to
modern-day ones; lots of people were religious to some degree or
other, but no miracles were in evidence.  The PCs' various religions
did turn out to matter--perhaps only as "sociocultural flavor" but
that was pretty im****tant to the campaign.  One of the PCs spent
much of the campaign slowly working his way back from the secularized
worldview he'd started with to a more developed form of his hometown
Ba'hai; it was fairly central to his characterization.  And Vikki's
cluelessness about religion, and Christine's "communitarian" quasi-
religion which the other PCs tended to see uneasily as AI-wor****p, were
lesser but also im****tant characterization points.

But it does vary a lot from game to game; you can even run Runequest
where religions don't matter at all, with only a little effort.

Mary Kuhner mkkuhner@[EMAIL PROTECTED]