tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2290828421410624791.post8594112368715096742..comments2024-03-14T10:32:29.233-05:00Comments on Blood of Prokopius: Religion Art Right HereFrDavehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00459281821319914530noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2290828421410624791.post-83920811758815638842011-04-30T09:51:03.754-05:002011-04-30T09:51:03.754-05:00"All adventuring Clerics are deacons and are ..."All adventuring Clerics are deacons and are attached to a bishop. This serves to feed adventure seeds to players as well as put a religious spin on adventuring."<br /><br />This is an excellent idea to keep clerics as more individuals serving within an established church rather than as a order of knights, separate somehow from the church. In effect the clerics are the muscle men of a church. The Indiana Jones of a University vs the adventuring cleric of a Bishop, bringing back wealth and artefacts for his patron.<br /><br />It can immediately explain why bishops and priests are normal men but clerics, through special divine ceremony, are separate. Perhaps clerics could retire as Bishops or Abbots, but are likely too worldly by then.The Jovial Priesthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00160018433070823408noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2290828421410624791.post-57958392883169618042011-01-21T23:58:41.309-06:002011-01-21T23:58:41.309-06:00Since you mentioned Aslan, I'm surprised there...Since you mentioned Aslan, I'm surprised there isn't a lion rampant somewhere on the page.<br /><br />The Abandoned Monastery-<br />Very D&D.<br /><br />Isten was hung upon a mountain-side by a pair of wolf hooks jammed through his shoulders.-<br />Yikes, like his parallel, that's harsh. Issek of the Jug comes to my mind as well. And, I think, the forgotten Realms God Ilmater.<br /><br />I always saw Clerics as Templar type guys, so the Benedictine Rule, with Cisternian influence,(or some such in your game world) would apply in these situations, I gather. <br /><br />I better start at the beginning....<br />*heads to archives*velaranhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15689908090884198784noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2290828421410624791.post-72781151151965373472011-01-07T13:18:54.278-06:002011-01-07T13:18:54.278-06:00Erin,
You bet. To date, I haven't had an occa...Erin,<br /><br />You bet. To date, I haven't had an occasion to introduce these orders into my own campaign, but they certainly do exist. Don't forget that you can also have orders based around saints (think Franciscans, Benedictines and Jesuits) and that there can be several variations on the symbols, each representing a different cultural region (check out the differences between the Greek, Byzantine, Coptic and Russian crosses, for example). There is <i>plenty</i> of room for variety.FrDavehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00459281821319914530noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2290828421410624791.post-46236536785484953512011-01-07T09:03:29.729-06:002011-01-07T09:03:29.729-06:00It makes for a very rich campaign world without ha...<i>It makes for a very rich campaign world without having to write up a detailed history of everything.</i><br /><br />This is quite timely - I'm revving up a new campaign, and I want to use apply a psuedo-Christian flavour. This is my first attempt at such a campaign, but I think it will provide a good basis for (1) adventure hooks, (2) campaign religion, (3) social and cultural motivations, (4) magic and monsters, and (5) getting alignment to make sense.<br /><br />Can I infer that the holy symbols above have corresponding orders within the Church? Would these, in your estimation, give rise to such? For example, the Wolf Hook would be favoured by aethestics, while the Blood Eagle a fighting order within the faith? <br /><br />Just curious - as I outline my campaign, I'm shifting from my usual focus of 1 culture = 1 pantheon, but I still want to ensure sufficient variety within the Church to stimulate adventure hooks and interesting historical background.Erin Smalehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16085303583608172242noreply@blogger.com