"Reviving Dead Religions " Topic
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| Tango01 | 29 Jan 2018 3:05 p.m. PST |
"One of my go-to elements in gaming is dead gods/religions. I find that ground fertile for plot hooks, campaign long story-line and it is gamable as hell. I've had an entire 3-year campaign based around this theme, even though the players weren't aware of it until the end. Recently I was reading +Carl Bussler's and +Eric Hoffman's, Prayers for the Forgotten, and dead gods/religions is what it is about. After reading it I drew a map, because that's what I do. An upcoming micro-adventure will feature a relic of a forgotten god and the opportunity for the party to become figureheads of a resurrected religion…"
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| Cacique Caribe | 29 Jan 2018 4:00 p.m. PST |
I think the whole Anunnaki-UFO cult is an attempt at reviving some aspects of Sumerian religion. That's just my thought. Some of the neo-Pagan cults are also mixing numerous deities and symbols of ancient religions and turning them into a new Earth-Mother Goddess movement, many of them centered around anything that exalts the "sacred feminine". Some, for example, pick and choose only the hymns or chants that are dedicated to Egyptian goddesses. I suppose all of those could be incorporated to add some spice to a game, with modern-day cultists* of one form or another, either the techie or nature types. Dan
* Reminds me of a friend who long ago tried to turn the show Millennium into some sort of game, centered around the obscure beliefs of the fictional "Millennium Group":
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| Cacique Caribe | 29 Jan 2018 8:51 p.m. PST |
Depending on how you paint them, some of these 15mm guys could work as the Millennium Group: TMP link Dan |
| Tango01 | 30 Jan 2018 11:13 a.m. PST |
thanks dany!…. Amicalement
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| Rudysnelson | 30 Jan 2018 4:08 p.m. PST |
No interest in the topic. I do not play miniatures to get into religious discussions. |
| Cacique Caribe | 31 Jan 2018 8:57 p.m. PST |
Lol. To each his own. As a kid I do seem to remember seeing some D&D books on gods and goddesses, and about having to pick who you would serve (or something weird like that). That was almost 40 years ago, of course, so I have no idea how far the gamers really got into it. And there are lots of games today that involve mythology (yes, ancient religions). Ranges like War Gods of Aegyptus and War Gods of Olympus seem to have lots of buyers. Some SF games include future religions too, similar to Dune*, based on new and old ideas. The topic can definitely be discussed. Dan
* Or even POTA's "Lawgiver" (with scrolls and all their Old Testament and Koranic similarities):
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experiments with Finger Drills.