In-Game Religions

[Meh]

And these signs are provided in abundance...

Animals appearing from nowhere (well that could be unnoticed migration).
New resources popping up (well that could be inventivness too).
Seeing people dragged on a trail when these people are not there.
Unburialable bodies.
Body doubles of the living on a trail.
Body doubles of dead bodies.
Building and people teleportations.

And you thought that all but the first two were bugs....

[quidit]

I was thinking something on a much larger scale, parting of the red sea
for example, but you do have a point. I always assumed those things
were just the way it is but they could be used for religion.

[|william|]

Then the willows must scuttle carefully.

[quidit]

[Surly]

Join the Monks of Karnon! Honour and retribution in the name of the Holy Father! (Also, I had a wandering holy man, but he was locked up in Lad. and now just appeases his God by gathering food...

[|william|]

:?:

You do not understand. But you will.

[g1asswa1ker]

Klug!

[InsaneIrony]

Heheh. The ghost of Klug. Whom some people still speak with. Heh. I think they're building a shrine or temple of some sort for him.

[g1asswa1ker]

If I have anything to do with it I will see to it that Klug will have many followers

[The Industriallist]

The trouble with religion is that players 'know' that there are no 'unrealistic' elements in cantr, so unless they are into RPing, they wouldn't inflict an erronious belief on their character. And RPers are rare in many places. Now, if there were more 'glitches' and the limited documentation were less clear about the lack of metaphysics, people would start seeing patterns, perhaps.

Of course, it depends on your definition of religion. One of my characters sort of worships a document, although there is nothing mystical about it.

[rklenseth]

Yes, I find it hard to keep religions going because no one is willing to believe and so on and role play it.

I have a character who is a follower of the Unnamed Ones except he isn't part of the actual religion. He has devoted his life to fighting the Void of Chaos and bringing order to the world. I really like how that is working out for him.

[Solfius]

My religious character has noticed how even though he hasn't been near his church for around 5 years, it has still been taken up as the official religion, so is planning to travel around the world building monuments, trying to spread it in that way

[Pirog]

4 of my characters are religious, although only 2 of them deeply enough to let it effect their life on a greater scale. (They are priests)

The problem with making religions as mighty in Cantr as IRL is that people show much less tendancy to support their churches economically.

As far as I have seen only the church in Blaman has their believers actively working for the best of the church, and not themselves.

It would be interesting if a religion would get enough power so that one or several governments supported them with taxes.

[quidit]

Yes, I find it hard to keep religions going because no one is willing to believe and so on and role play it.

This is why I think a big event would help if people really want religions in game.

[Bowser]

"In-game bugs".. such as longer days, buildings magically being transported to another land and then back, seeing two of the same person, timewarps that erase months of activity....

Should these be role played out with some sort of mystical/religious explaination or just ignored IC?

One of my characters has experienced a few of these occurances at pivital points in his life. Each time he has left the safety of his home, something odd has happened. Now he is a bit paraniod and rarely leaves town.

The first time he went out in a boat, the docking function was not working and he was stuck ona lake for a long time.

The next time he left town down a road to just speak with a someone who just left, he appeared at the next town in one turn... took hima few days to walk back.