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Originally Posted by Nightshade
Oh, don't get me wrong; so do I. I was just noting it didn't have much to do with any real-world past religion that I knew of.
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Oh, I know. My response was terse, as I'm at work and supposed to be working
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I like The Primal O model, plus the RQ model plus the Stormbringer "elan" model married together, because they give an in-game rationale for the whole thing - gods get something out of having more worshippers, temples built to them, etc (Primal O); worshippers get something being devout and carrying out the rituals (magic, divine intervention) and worshippers get an improved chance at divine intervention by doing things that please their deity and potentially increase their deity's power (elan).
But there are other potential models. What if the gods aren't real? What if they're just power sources and people only imagine them to have faces/personalities? What if they're something else entirely?
The Mythopoet's Manual helped me understand real-world religions (ancient and modern), but it also helped me understand that for the kind of model of religion I'm talking about above - where, for example, Zeus might indeed pop up and throw off a few lightning bolts - there is no real-world example. So, you gotta turn back to your imagination to figure how such a religion works in your imaginary world.