Re: Forging Neo-Folklore

In article <bsuj33hfg2d3e68kaevvu7v6b4c87vmlke@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
Keran  <keranlonglost@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

>I also
>tend to dislike it when the gods are ****trayed in such
>a manner that they're not religious figures at all --
>where they're superpowerful patrons but could never
>satisfy or inspire a religious impulse -- or when the GM
>or the game system produces an oversimplified
>absolutist morality.  This often produces a ****trait
>of the Good that is odious -- the questions that
>well-intentioned minds have sincerely disagreed about
>are presented as if one half-answer is the whole truth,
>which distorts the moral dimension of the world.

That's really well put, Keran.  Thanks.  I've been trying
to articulate that to myself but haven't been as successful.

This was my disappointment with products like _The Primal
Order_.  The person who tried to sell me on it said that it
had to do with religion, but the presentation actually 
pretty much denies the religious impulse, reducing the whole
thing to a marketplace of power offered or taken.  A sincerely
religious person who found out the truth about his/her
religion would almost have to renounce it, under such a
system.

I think RuneQuest did about the best job with religions that
I've seen in a published product, though the material is
spread over too many books and rather hard to pull together.

Mary Kuhner mkkuhner@[EMAIL PROTECTED]