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Old November 27th, 2007
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Originally Posted by Simlasa View Post
That would be interesting in a game setting... having the one or more 'official' religions that no one really believed anymore but everyone gave lipservice too... offset against another one that had a growing cult of true-believers.

For most of the fantasy games I've played in the religions were pretty much equally powerful and equally correct... meaning all the gods could grant spells/powers... or even show up in person from time to time...
Well, that's the problem; as long as you have activist, concrete gods, you aren't going to get anything that looks really historical; you'll get the myth of religion rather than its reality, if you get my meaning.
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